There are 65 million hectares of undesignated areas in the Legal Amazon. Their current status increases their vulnerability to land grabbing and illegal timber extraction. It is urgent to destinate those lands to protection.
Socioenvironmental safeguards and the guarantee of forest people’s rights
For almost two decades, the mechanism known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), coined under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has proved resilient as a proposal for dealing with greenhouse gas...