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SUMMARY:Safeguards and ‘Dangerguards’: Towards a framework for unpacki
 ng social safeguards for REDD+ - Albert Arhin\, PhD Candidate\, Dept. of G
 eography\, University of Cambridge
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DESCRIPTION:The mechanism of  REDD+ is currently high on the agenda of int
 ernational climate change negotiations. While REDD+ has potential to contr
 ibute to climate change mitigation and sustainable development\, it is als
 o expected that the mechanism could lead to exclusion and disempowerment w
 hich have implications for the vulnerability of poor people. The recent ye
 ars have therefore seen growing attention and proliferation of social and 
 environmental principles—known as REDD+ safeguards—whose implementatio
 n is expected to avoid harm to local communities while ensuring that commu
 nities obtain multiple benefits from the scheme. While REDD+  safeguards h
 ave an intuitive appeal\, the concept is riddled with ambiguity—and mean
 s different things to different people. This presentation proposes a frame
 work to unpack the many faces of REDD+  safeguards to guide their applicat
 ion and operationalization at national and local levels. \n
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