Policy learning in REDD+ donor countries: Norway, Germany and the UK

Schroeder, Heike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2342-2030, Di Gregorio, Monica, Brockhaus, Maria and Pham, Thuy Thu (2020) Policy learning in REDD+ donor countries: Norway, Germany and the UK. Global Environmental Change, 63. ISSN 0959-3780

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Abstract

REDD+ has been evolving since 2005, yet its outcomes and effectiveness in reducing deforestation and/or achieving co-benefits are still unclear. The academic literature has focused a great deal on the politics and performance of REDD+ recipient countries and on-the-ground implementation, but less so on REDD+ donor countries and not on the question of how REDD+ donor countries learn in the process of implementing REDD+. We examine the three major REDD+ donors Norway, Germany and the UK and find that their funding objectives and approaches have broadened from the original simple and focused idea of financially rewarding tropical forest countries to keep forests standing and carbon stored to land-use, co-benefits and global efforts of transformation. Modalities of learning have not kept up with the rapid changes in terms of problem definition and characterization (as ‘super wicked’), let alone the transformative organizational or even paradigmatic changes identified as needed. The experience with REDD+ is demonstrating that merely adjusting the system in incremental ways will likely not solve the problems at hand. Instead, novel modes of learning to facilitate such a transition are needed.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: global and planetary change,geography, planning and development,ecology,management, monitoring, policy and law ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2306
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Climate Change
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Globalisation and CSR
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Date Deposited: 23 May 2020 00:07
Last Modified: 14 May 2023 00:24
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/75301
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102106

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