The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities

Maureen F. Tehan is a Principal Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Her scholarship has centred on indigenous land rights, property and land and resource management. Lee C. Godden is a Professor at Melbourne Law School and Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law. She recently served as commissioner for the Australian Law Reform Commission's inquiry into the Australian Native Title Act. Margaret A. Young is Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School and was Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2016. Her research interests are public international law, international trade law, climate change law and the law of the sea. Kirsty A. Gover is Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School. She writes on the law, policy and political theory of indigenous rights in settler states and in international law.

1. Introduction; 2. REDD+ as international legal regime; 3. REDD+'s broader international legal context; 4. REDD+, identity law and 'free, prior and informed consent'; 5. REDD+, tenure and indigenous property claims; 6. Benefit-sharing in the REDD+ regime: linking rights and equitable outcomes; 7. Malaysia and the UN-REDD programme-exploring possibilities for tenure pluralism in forest governance; 8. REDD+ in Melanesia: Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu; 9. Indigenous land tenures and carbon mitigation schemes: lessons from Northern Australia; 10. Interacting regimes and experimentalism; 11. Conclusion.