REDD+ has been criticised for leading to commercial monocultures
of fast-growing alien trees A pledge to increase support for
biodiversity targets in developing countries is welcome, but
care for indigenous people is vital too. This month's meeting of
the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD), held in Hyderabad in India, came as
a reality check on the capacity of the international community
to implement pledges on biodiversity made two years ago in
Nagoya, Japan. At that landmark meeting in Nagoya, countries
agreed on 20 global biodiversity targets for 2010–2020 (called
the Aichi Targets, after the province in which Nagoya is
located) and outlined a protocol on access and benefit sharing
to ensure that local communities benefit from profits made by
governments or companies from their resources. But Nagoya had an
unfinished third agenda that Hyderabad inherited — the
mobilisation of financial resources to meet the Aichi targets.
India also endeavoured to use th