A key issue in the literature on REDD+ concerns the reasons explaining its very emergence in the climate regime. Many
authors have pointed to the ability of REDD+ to bring together a wide variety of actors with diverging agendas and interests. As McDermott et al. argue, the REDD+ negotiations have been driven forward by a veritable “bandwagon of salvation” that rests on a mutually-beneficial North/South bargain whereby “Northern countries and/or their polluting industries can pay Southern countries and/or those otherwise engaged in cutting trees and converting forests to conserve forest carbon as a means to offset their fossil fuel emissions or contribute to their financial obligations under a future intergovernmental climate policy