"Companies are suffering information loss, but they don't talk about it because it could easily hurt their business, " explains Duhl, who says businesses will be slower to assignrights to their content until they better understand how it will be integrated into their existing setup, and what the cost will be.
One way around this is not to assign carbon rights to individuals or communities as might occur with indigenous groups in Brazil, and simply have REDD-host governments create, hold and sell these rights.
Property rights only come into play when we decide whether to invent and assign them when we try to build a system that maximises the innovation which is the point of the system.