Recent IPCC assessments highlight a key role for large‐scale carbon removal in meeting
the objectives of the Paris Agreement. This focus on removal, also referred to as negative …

Payments for environmental services (PES) have become a popular approach to address
environmental degradation. However, evidence on its effectiveness is scarce and rather …

Executive Summary Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) is unique among
the sectors considered in this volume, since the mitigation potential is derived from both an …

In this commentary we critically discuss the suitability of payments for ecosystem services
and the most important challenges they face. While such instruments can play a role in …

The extent to which REDD+ initiatives should be a mechanism to address poverty and
provide other co-benefits apart from carbon storage, is hotly debated. Here, we examine the …

Benefit-sharing mechanisms are a central design aspect of REDD+ because they help to
create the necessary incentives to reduce carbon emissions. However, if stakeholders do …

This study examines the political economy of decarbonization in eight countries over the
period 2000 to 2021/2022 that have already achieved a national net-zero transition. These …

This article takes on the political and contested nature of forest carbon accounting via three
“points of engagement” that articulate forest carbon initiatives as representations of tradable …

This paper offers a critical assessment of REDD+ in Nigeria through a political ecology
perspective. Focusing on questions of property rights and resource access, it maps the …

This review paper synthesizes the current understanding of greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions from field cropping systems. It examines the key factors influencing GHG …