As part of the Politics of International Law series. Dr Julia Dehm (La Trobe Law School) provides a critical analysis of some of the global legal infrastructures that have been established through emerging forms of climate governance. This talk interrogates the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD+ scheme, and shows how carbon offset projects operate to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South, in ways that benefit the interests of some actors while further marginalising others.