There is growing awareness of the need to tackle climate change, and one policy initiative has been to offset or reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the maintenance and growth of forests that would otherwise be destroyed. Julia Dehm is a Lecturer in Law at La Trobe whose research focuses on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, or REDD initiatives. In this episode of Research in Focus, Julia chats with Lauren Gawne about how this initiative fits within the larger fight against climate change. For more on Julia’s research: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/display/jdehm

Research in Focus is a La Trobe University podcast, produced by Lawrie Zion and Lauren Gawne. Support for this podcast comes from La Trobe University’s Transforming Human Societies Research Focus Area. This podcast is edited by Max Robins and hosted by Upstart. Music is Bright Future by Silent Partner. Recorded November 5th, 2018.