At the UN-sponsored climate conference in Cancun, delegates reached an agreement on a programme called "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation" popularly known as REDD. What is the basic idea of REDD?

  • All the member countries of UN should impose a moratorium on cutting the forest trees for a period of ten years, while simultaneously pursuing afforestation programme.
  • Rich countries to pay to preserve forests in poor countries, which can be cheaper than reducing their own carbon emissions.
  • Countries with forested areas can claim carbon credits for not undertaking deforestation as per some formula developed by UNEP.
  • All the member countries of UN should undertake afforestation in an area equal to the area in which deforestation is carried out by them for unavoidable circumstances.
 At the UN-sponsored climate conference in Cancun, delegates reached an agreement on a programm
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