Guide on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

continue their unsustainable and high-carbon production andconsumption patterns so long as they pay poor countries to do REDDand get credits for these to meet their emissions targets• Developing countries and indigenous peoples and other forest dwellersmay end up as tenants being paid to take care of the forests which willprovide emissions credits to A1 countries.Carbon Market as Main Means to Fund REDD:• Reliance on private sector and carbon market to provide funding forREDD; this will be driven more by speculation and an increase in theunregulated voluntary carbon markets.• There is still lack of scientific proof that offsets can readily reduceGHG emissions. These offsets come from CDM projects and voluntarymarkets, REDD, etc.• Linking REDD to the carbon market or offset markets is one sourceof resistance to REDD. Indigenous peoples have always assertedthat A1 countries and the USA should undertake deep emission cutsdomestically by radically changing their production and consumptionpatterns and their model of development. The fear is that if richcountries can just buy cheaper emissions credits from tropical forestcountries, then the pressure for the rich countries to change theireconomic and development model towards a low-carbon sustainable76 <strong>Guide</strong> on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples