Inter Press Service: As national policies are developed to implement REDD, the U.N. effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, a key question has been how to ensure social and environmental standards are upheld in REDD projects, both at the national and international level. In some places, most notably Indonesia, it is far from clear that those policies, called safeguards, will be adopted. After the REDD mechanism, which allows wealthy countries to offset their emissions…