This chapter turns to consider questions of scale by interrogating the multilayered system of governance that REDD+ envisions, as established through the allocation of forest resource rights to diverse social actors at the local, national and international levels. It reads debates about carbon rights in REDD+ alongside broader trends relating to natural resource governance, common property regimes (CPRs) and community resource management to show how frameworks for the allocation of layered, or nested, rights in the forest carbon economy is another legal technology through which authority over land is transferred to international actors and away from people who live in and around forested areas.