iLDIKO iOAN, cARMEN vALENTINA rĂDULESCU
ABSTRACT. – Integrated mechanisms for approaching priority environmental issues at global level. At global level, there are considered priority environmental issues two interdependent processes that are essential for the support the processes that provide living conditions and wellbeing for the entire humankind: climate change and loss of biodiversity. Payments of ecosystem services became already well-known and applied economic instruments, although there are still many uncertainties in the knowledge of eco-economic interdependencies. The paper discusses these aspects in the first part highlighting advantages and disadvantages, while in the second part there is analyzed an integrated program of the United Nations, which was designed for making progress toward both climate change, and loss of biodiversity. The REDD program – Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation – is addressed to developing countries and it started in 2008. Based on assessment reports we will try to formulate a number of conclusions regarding the program’s effectiveness.
Keywords: climate change, biodiversity loss, market based instruments, REDD.