The 1st phase of a collaborative process to provide meaningful and effective analyses of alternative policy proposals for inclusion of reducing emissions from REDD in the post-2012 global climate change agreement.

To inform the current policy debate, so that international post-2012 climate regimes and national REDD schemes are constructed in a manner that produces real reductions of emission from deforestation and forest degradation, using methods which effective, efficient, and equitable. It will provide a critical review of potential barriers to adoption of REDD policies based on global analysis of the political economic influences within and outside the forestry sector, and disseminate this research through a media seminar, television debates and a parliamentarian road show.