Mongabay: Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has been widely lauded as a mechanism that could fund forest conservation and poverty alleviation efforts while fighting climate change. At the December U.N. climate meeting in Bali, delegates agreed to include REDD in future discussions on a new global warming treaty – a move that could eventually lead to the transfer of billions of dollars from industrialized countries to tropical nations for the purpose of slowing …