Department of Forest Science, Chair of International Forest Policy, University of Helsinki (Helsinki) and Helsinki Sustainability Center (HELSUS), Helsinki, Finland.
CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia.
Ambio. 2021 Dec;50(12):2238-2255. doi: 10.1007/s13280-021-01602-1. Epub 2021 Sep 3.
Halting forest loss and achieving sustainable development in an equitable manner require state, non-state actors, and entire societies in the Global North and South to tackle deeply established patterns of inequality and power relations embedded in forest frontiers. Forest and climate governance in the Global South can provide an avenue for the transformational change needed-yet, does it? We analyse the politics and power in four cases of mitigation, adaptation, and development arenas. We use a political economy lens to explore the transformations taking place when climate policy meets specific forest frontiers in the Global South, where international, national and local institutions, interests, ideas, and information are at play. We argue that lasting and equitable outcomes will require a strong discursive shift within dominant institutions and among policy actors to redress policies that place responsibilities and burdens on local people in the Global South, while benefits from deforestation and maladaptation are taken elsewhere. What is missing is a shared transformational objective and priority to keep forests standing among all those involved from afar in the major forest frontiers in the tropics.
要想停止森林损失并公平地实现可持续发展，全球北方和南方的国家、非国家行为体和整个社会都需要解决森林前沿中根深蒂固的不平等和权力关系模式。南方国家的森林和气候治理可以提供一个变革的途径——但它真的能做到吗？我们分析了四个缓解、适应和发展领域的政治和权力。我们使用政治经济学视角来探索当气候政策在南方国家的特定森林前沿相遇时正在发生的转变，国际、国家和地方机构、利益、观念和信息都在其中发挥作用。我们认为，要想取得持久和公平的结果，需要在主导机构内部以及政策行为者之间进行强有力的话语转变，以纠正将责任和负担置于南方国家当地人民身上的政策，同时将森林砍伐和适应不良的利益转移到其他地方。目前缺少的是一个共同的变革目标和优先事项，即在所有涉及到热带主要森林前沿的遥远各方中，保持森林的存在。
