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Governing Emissions Reduc� on:
REDD+ and Stakeholder Perceptions
of Institutional Legitimacy
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Changing paradigms of aid eff ec� veness in Nepal
– Dr Tim Cadman
– Dr Tek Maraseni
PERCEPTIONS of climate governance quality vary greatly amongst regime
par� cipants from the global North and South, and across stakeholder sectors,
with implica� ons for the current design and future direc� ons in market-based
approaches to climate change management. Given the predicted social and
environmental problems as a consequence of climate change, it will become
increasingly important to determine whether the policy programmes aimed
at reducing greenhouse gas emissions are solving the problem and changing
behaviour, or whether they are in fact contribu� ng to perverse outcomes.
This paper presents a framework of principles, criteria and indicators for
the evalua� on of the governance of a wide range of sustainable development
funding mechanisms aimed at tackling climate change. The framework
provides a compara� ve analysis of a range of greenhouse gas emission ‘off set’
mechanisms, including the United Na� ons Programme for the Reduc� on of
Emissions from Deforesta� on and Forest Degrada� on (‘REDD+’), built on a
series of surveys of environmental, government and economic stakeholders,
conducted between 2009 and 2010. It fi nds that percep� ons of ins� tu� onal
governance quality varies greatly across the specifi c sectors and regions, but
that, curiously, respondents from the global South rate both mechanisms
higher than those in the global North, irrespec� ve of their sector. The paper
concludes that in the absence of global standards of governance quality it