The basic outlines of REDD are clear.

REDD的纲要很明确。

REDD can accommodate such staggered progress.

该计划能够包容这种参差不齐的进展。

But REDD, provided its design holds firm, can do better.

不过，若是REDD计划的设计方案能得到坚定的执行，那么它将能有更好的表现。

If that happened to REDD, the effect would be devastating.

如果这种事情发生在REDD计划身上，其后果将是毁灭性的。

This has become one of the thorniest issues in the REDD negotiations.

这成为在REDD谈判中的最棘手的问题之一。

So REDD needs to encourage both national and local conservation efforts.

因此，REDD计划需要兼顾对全国性和地区性森林保护努力的鼓励。

That is why REDD has to be done on a large scale, even if the payments will vary.

这便是为何REDD计划必须大范围实施，即便补偿将有所不同的原因。

For now, most REDD projects are small-scale and based on traditional conservation.

目前，大部分REDD项目规模较小，且基于传统保护模式。

Early initiatives to certify REDD projects do include safeguards for local people.

验证REDD项目的早的初步行动中包括对本地人的安全进行保护。

It underlines the need to get the details of REDD right: who will be paid for what?

它强调了对REDD权利细节的需要：谁将会付出为了什么？

He reckons community forest revenues need topping up by a third, and is looking to REDD.

他认为社区森林收入需要增加三分之一，目前正注意减少森林砍伐和退化造成的温室气体排放。

The most anticipated aimed at reduced deforestation and forest degradation, also known as REDD+.

最让人期待的目标是减少砍伐森林和森林退化，即REDD+。

Perhaps ominously for REDD, however, this scheme may have been less effective than many suppose.

然而，也许是对REDD的预兆，这个方案可能没很多人想象的那么行之有效。

REDD looks extremely uncertain, but without it massive tropical deforestation is inevitable.

REDD计划虽然看起来极不确定，但没有它，大片热带森林被毁将不可避免。

Assuming REDD delivers, Indonesia has vowed to reduce its forecast 2020 emissions by up to 41%.

假使REDD计划能够兑现，印尼已承诺将其2020年预测排放量削减多达41%。

Whether Amazonas's progress points to similar success by REDD is not clear. Amazonas is unusual.

亚马逊的进展会不会带来和REDD一样的成功目前还未可知也，不过亚马逊有些不一样。

The REDD initiative on forestry should move lots of money to countries which avoid felling trees.

减少因毁林和森林退化而导致的排放的机制应当向避免树木减少的国家提供大量资金。

Three years on, the final land-use decree has yet to appear. The problem is one that will dog REDD.

三年已经过去了，最终土地使用法令还是没有颁发。

Brazil's draft national REDD law also states that indigenous people own the forest carbon of their reserves.

巴西起草的全国REDD法律也声明本土人拥有他们的储备的森林碳。

With global climate-change negotiations foundering, the prospects of raising cash for REDD that way look poor.

由于就全球气候变化的谈判破裂，通过这种方式来为REDD集资前景堪忧。

"The implication for REDD is that we first need a system that can monitor fires," he told the Science journal.

他告诉《科学》杂志社，“REDD（减少毁林和森林退化导致的排放）的含义是，我们首先需要一个能够监测火灾的系统。”

Unclear ownership also raises a big obstacle to the improvements in land-use planning that REDD must bring about.

模糊的产权也为REDD计划必须实现的土地使用规划方面的改善制造了一大障碍。

A small area of Riau's remaining forest will become a test case if an international carbon-trading plan called REDD is adopted.

如果一项名为REDD的国际“碳交易”计划被采纳，廖内省境内的一小块残存的原始林将成为为其首块试验林。

This week, we put REDD under the spotlight in a series of articles to identify and explore where science and research can make a difference.

本周，我们把REDD放在了一系列文章的聚光灯下，从而发现并探索科学和研究能在何处做出贡献。