Abstract
Despite its short history of development, the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) policy has started to establish itself as an effective policy for securing carbon offsets for large emitters of greenhouse gases including the European Union (EU). Corresponding to the direction of the international climate change policy area, this article primarily presents the current state of the EU REDD+ policy implementation. It offers considerations and suggestions to overcome the challenges facing an ongoing EU REDD+ project in West Papua and Papua in Indonesia to better direct the policy. First, to provide a primary overview of EU REDD+ policy developments, the article analyses the policy developments at the EU level, including its legal basis, as well as the roles of the EU’s REDD+ policy as it relates to institutions. Second, this article presents the background of the ongoing project in West Papua and Papua, Indonesia, and identifies and analyses the main challenges facing the implementation of the ongoing project. Third, the article discusses the author’s own view regarding these challenges. Finally, in the conclusion, it discusses the prospects and limitations of the EU’s REDD+ policy.
Highlights
Forests provide humans with a place to live
The challenges from the ongoing project in West Papua and Papua, namely, enforcing land tenure, strengthening law enforcement, and eradicating illegal logging, are factors that should be considered by the European Union (EU) when implementing REDD+ in other areas
The primary challenges facing REDD+ vary depending on the country, region, and local area
Summary
Forests provide humans with a place to live. Forests with high biodiversity are indispensable components for the fauna and flora as well, as they provide crucial habitat. Forests release CO2, one of the main greenhouse gases, into the atmosphere when they are subjected to anthropogenic disturbances. In this regard, deforestation and forest degradation are processes during which the emission of CO2 actively occurs. The European Commission recently announced that the emissions from deforestation and forest degradation account for up to 12% of the total amount of global CO2 emissions (European Commission, 2015a). It has implemented the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) policy to mitigate CO2 emissions
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