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REDD in California’s Cap and Trade: Undermining Environmental and Financial Market Integrity

The State of California is poised to become the first cap and trade market to accept forest carbon offset credits for compliance purposes. This briefing paper details the related problems and risks.
Letter to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility

Re: Carbon fund risks undermining REDD readiness
Letter to Policy Board Members

The Social and Environmental Principles and Criteria (SEPC) and corresponding risk assessment tools threaten to undermine work undertaken thus far and risk creating a race to the bottom in global REDD…
REDD+ and carbon markets: Ten myths exploded

The United Nations’ negotiations on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation – REDD+ – has become increasingly central in global discussions on climate change. This paper tak…
The risks of REDD in California’s cap and trade

California’s approach towards REDD credits — offsets generated from avoiding deforestation or degradation in tropical countries — will undermine both environmental and financial market integrity of…
Letter to the California Air Resources Board

RE: Sector-based crediting and subnational Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) as part of a California cap-and-trade program