REDD+ But Not Ready

The ratification of Article 6 the Paris Agreement allows countries to engage in compliance-based carbon markets which will allow offset their own emissions by investing reductions elsewhere. Given this recent development, it bears considering whether international system is prepared adopt existing voluntary into a compliance system. Accordingly, paper examines nationally determined contributions (NDCs) major REDD+ host determine they are program under well-documented risks indirectly increase emission (via non-additionality, leakage, or incentivizing weak governance from states), argues that states need set clear guidelines towards roles internal decarbonization policy and what additional markets. This ultimately ill-equipped function market as appear reliant on achieve climate goals suggests better accountability needed for be adopted article 6.