Development safeguard

In international law, a development safeguard or simply safeguard is a restraint on economic development to protect communities from development aggression.[1][2][3]

In the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), safeguards are intended to protect indigenous peoples and other local communities with traditional knowledge of natural resource management within efforts towards reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.[4]

With UNFCC processes, safeguards became of concern in the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[5] For REDD+ activities under the UNFCCC, the seven Cancún safeguards were adopted at the conference, and later decisions provided guidance on safeguards information systems for reporting how safeguards are addressed and respected.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ World Bank Safeguard Policies and the UNFCCC REDD+ Safeguards (PDF) (Report). Institute of Green Economy. 2011.
  2. ^ A Guide to Understanding and Implementing the UNFCCC REDD+ Safeguards (PDF) (Report). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  3. ^ REDD: Addressing the Drivers – A case for the WTO? (PDF) (Report). 2011.
  4. ^ REDD Web Platform Safeguards (Report). The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility.
  5. ^ The REDD Safeguards of Cancun (PDF) (Report). The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility.
  6. ^ "Decision 1/CP.16: The Cancun Agreements: Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention". Report of the Conference of the Parties on its sixteenth session, held in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010: Addendum. Part Two: Action taken by the Conference of the Parties at its sixteenth session (PDF) (Report). United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 15 March 2011. pp. 12–13, 26–27. FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1.
  7. ^ "Decision 12/CP.17: Guidance on systems for providing information on how safeguards are addressed and respected and modalities relating to forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels as referred to in decision 1/CP.16". Report of the Conference of the Parties on its seventeenth session, held in Durban from 28 November to 11 December 2011: Addendum. Part Two: Action taken by the Conference of the Parties at its seventeenth session (PDF) (Report). United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 15 March 2012. pp. 16–17. FCCC/CP/2011/9/Add.2.


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