Evaluate the REDD+ through agricultural expansion, which greatly impacts the environment and international laws relating to the environment. Use the Internet to research more information on REDD+.
Read chapters 10 and 11 from the textbook and any additional professional reference sources in order to support your discussion. (Please note that Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference source for academic papers.)
Course Textbook:
Kubasek, N. K., & Silverman, G. S. (2011). Environmental law (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
1a. For the first part of the evaluation describe the REDD+ Program and how deforestation has an impact on climate regulations.
1b. Define some of the key challenges of the program and how governments around the world are developing more laws in order to govern the strategies involving REDD+.
2a. For the second part of the evaluation, evaluate how international laws such as the Kyoto Protocol have been put into action in order to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which in turn affect deforestation.
2b. Also discuss how the REDD+ Program attempts to achieve its environmental goals through its initiatives to change international environmental laws through the success of the REDD+ Program.
The completed evaluation and discussion must be a minimum of three pages in length, not including the title page and reference list.
Per 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and listing of sources are to be followed.
Be sure to use APA formatted in-text citations to identify sources for information. Note that in-text citations are required even if the information has been reworded. Citations are utilized when a phrase, a piece of specific information, or a sequence of sentences is drawn from an outside source.