REDD may miss up to 80 percent of land use change emissions

this is pretty disturbing if REDD does miss such a high percent of emissions. while most at Copenhagen believe that REDD is one of the easier emission reduction approaches most nations might agree with, the analysis presented by the organization mentioned in the Mongabay article below says otherwise.

REDD may miss up to 80 percent of land use change emissions: "The political definition of 'forest' used in REDD (Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) threatens to undermine the program's objective to conserve ecosystems for their ability to sequester carbon, according to a new analysis by the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) Partnership for Tropical Forest Margins.

In an analysis of three Indonesian provinces using REDD proposals for carbon accounting, ASB found that REDD may miss up to 80 percent of the actual emissions due to land use change. The carbon accounting problems could be fixed, according to ASB, by expanding REDD's purpose from reducing emissions linked to deforestation (considering the problematic definition of forests) to reducing emission from all land use changes that either release or capture greenhouse gases, including but not limited to forests."