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Good forest management in developing countries is an important part of the solution to mitigating global climate change. Governments are developing a global mechanism known as REDD+ that will provide incentives to developing countries to implement activities that protect and enhance their forest carbon stocks. To assess the contribution of REDD+ activities to global climate change mitigation, accurate monitoring of forest carbon is required. While the monitoring of forest carbon is a highly technical issue, with adequate support, communities who live close to the forests can make an important contribution, having relevant knowledge of ecosystems and removals of biomass.
In particular, when communities themselves are forest owners and managers, it makes good sense for them to be involved in any efforts to generate scientifically verifiable data to monitor carbon stocks in their forests. With this capacity and knowledge, communities will be in a much stronger position to understand the trade-offs of alternative forest uses and to negotiate with outsiders (carbon professionals, etc.). Community involvement in carbon accounting will also increase local understanding and ownership of REDD+, which will increase the likelihood of long-term emissions reductions and reduce social and environmental risks. Providing communities with roles and responsibilities for REDD+ implementation, such as carbon accounting, and rewarding them is likely to result in more sustainable outcomes than distributing REDD+ benefits freely (i.e. paying people for what they do, rather than just for what they have).
The project is being implemented at project sites in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Laos according to local contexts, opportunities and needs, with a common overall approach that consists of the following elements: awareness raising and capacity building on REDD+; testing of measurement methods and sample plot designs; mapping and stratification of the forests to reflect spatial variations in forest carbon stocks and management types; setting up and measurement of sample plots; and estimation and monitoring of forest carbon stocks and biomass removals.
The CCA Action Research Project combines activities that are being implemented with the generous support of the Ministry of Environment of Japan and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). The APN is providing support for a 3-year project being implemented by IGES and its partners titled Participatory Approaches to Forest Carbon Accounting to Mitigate Climate Change, Conserve Biodiversity and Promote Sustainable Development. The project runs from January 2011 to December 2013.
Key partners that IGES is collaborating with in designing and conducting the research are RECOFTC - The Centre for Forests and People, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) , Foundation for People and Community Development (FPCD) , Indonesia National Forestry Council (Dewan Kehutanan Nasional - DKN) , ARuPA , and Faculty of Forestry, National University of Laos. |
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Cambodia - action research summary  331KB |
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PNG - action research summary 249KB |
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Indonesia - action research summary 194KB |
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- Training workshop on community carbon accounting (CCA), 18-21 January 2011, Seima Community Production Forestry Project site in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia; organised by IGES, RECOFTC, WCS and Forestry Administration173KB
- “REDD+, PES and Benefit Sharing Workshop”, 17-18 February 2011, Gaire, Papua New Guinea: organised by IGES and INA
- “Community Carbon Accounting Reflection Workshop”, 02-03 March 2011, Yogyakarta Indonesia; organised by IGES and RECOFTC, with local support from Faculty of Forestry, Gadjah Mada University 388KB
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