Author: James Alegria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carbon sequestration
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Malawi REDD+ Readiness Program
Author: James Alegria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carbon sequestration
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carbon sequestration
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
National Forest Monitoring Systems
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org
ISBN: 9789251079621
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"This document builds on the brief paper presented at the 7th Meeting of the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board, held in Berlin, October 2011 (UNREDD/PB7/2011/13), which lays out ways to consider the REDD+ monitoring and information provision needs in the broader context of national development and environmental strategies, at the implementation level. The purpose of this document is to describe the elements in National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMSs) as they relate to REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to describe the UN-REDD Programme approach to Monitoring and Measurement, Reporting and Verification (M & MRV) requirements."--Page v.
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org
ISBN: 9789251079621
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"This document builds on the brief paper presented at the 7th Meeting of the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board, held in Berlin, October 2011 (UNREDD/PB7/2011/13), which lays out ways to consider the REDD+ monitoring and information provision needs in the broader context of national development and environmental strategies, at the implementation level. The purpose of this document is to describe the elements in National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMSs) as they relate to REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to describe the UN-REDD Programme approach to Monitoring and Measurement, Reporting and Verification (M & MRV) requirements."--Page v.
Implementing REDD+ in Africa
Author: Ademola Oluborode Jegede
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303139397X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book presents a cohesive collection of contributions representing an African scholarly voice on some of the most burning and emerging topics and experiences regarding the implementation of REDD+ in Africa from a human rights perspective. It addresses the international human rights obligations of states and non-state actors in the context of REDD+ implementation in Africa; how current practices in various African states reinforce or affect human rights standards; and critical issues concerning the rights of vulnerable groups such as women, Indigenous populations, and forest dwellers in the implementation of REDD+ in Africa. Further, it investigates potential gaps in the existing laws, and how they can be addressed from a comparative point of view. The book also sheds light on the roles that different actors can play in fostering change and identifies best practices in the implementation of REDD+ in Africa. The book offers a rich intellectual resource for various actors in the environmental science, climate and environmental law fields who are often confronted with the challenge of how to manage the delicate balance of forests as a development resource; forests as a climate-change mitigation resource; and forests as a catalyst for the rights of vulnerable populations. The book responds to the imbalance and gaps in REDD+ scholarship. Addressing such lacuna in an edited volume of this nature is essential to the present and future work of practitioners, academics and other actors with a sustained interest in REDD+ in Africa.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303139397X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book presents a cohesive collection of contributions representing an African scholarly voice on some of the most burning and emerging topics and experiences regarding the implementation of REDD+ in Africa from a human rights perspective. It addresses the international human rights obligations of states and non-state actors in the context of REDD+ implementation in Africa; how current practices in various African states reinforce or affect human rights standards; and critical issues concerning the rights of vulnerable groups such as women, Indigenous populations, and forest dwellers in the implementation of REDD+ in Africa. Further, it investigates potential gaps in the existing laws, and how they can be addressed from a comparative point of view. The book also sheds light on the roles that different actors can play in fostering change and identifies best practices in the implementation of REDD+ in Africa. The book offers a rich intellectual resource for various actors in the environmental science, climate and environmental law fields who are often confronted with the challenge of how to manage the delicate balance of forests as a development resource; forests as a climate-change mitigation resource; and forests as a catalyst for the rights of vulnerable populations. The book responds to the imbalance and gaps in REDD+ scholarship. Addressing such lacuna in an edited volume of this nature is essential to the present and future work of practitioners, academics and other actors with a sustained interest in REDD+ in Africa.
REDD+ on the ground
Author: Erin O Sills
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6021504550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
REDD+ is one of the leading near-term options for global climate change mitigation. More than 300 subnational REDD+ initiatives have been launched across the tropics, responding to both the call for demonstration activities in the Bali Action Plan and the market for voluntary carbon offset credits.
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6021504550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
REDD+ is one of the leading near-term options for global climate change mitigation. More than 300 subnational REDD+ initiatives have been launched across the tropics, responding to both the call for demonstration activities in the Bali Action Plan and the market for voluntary carbon offset credits.
Realising REDD+
Author: Arild Angelsen
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693030
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
REDD+ must be transformational. REDD+ requires broad institutional and governance reforms, such as tenure, decentralisation, and corruption control. These reforms will enable departures from business as usual, and involve communities and forest users in making and implementing policies that a ect them. Policies must go beyond forestry. REDD+ strategies must include policies outside the forestry sector narrowly de ned, such as agriculture and energy, and better coordinate across sectors to deal with non-forest drivers of deforestation and degradation. Performance-based payments are key, yet limited. Payments based on performance directly incentivise and compensate forest owners and users. But schemes such as payments for environmental services (PES) depend on conditions, such as secure tenure, solid carbon data and transparent governance, that are often lacking and take time to change. This constraint reinforces the need for broad institutional and policy reforms. We must learn from the past. Many approaches to REDD+ now being considered are similar to previous e orts to conserve and better manage forests, often with limited success. Taking on board lessons learned from past experience will improve the prospects of REDD+ e ectiveness. National circumstances and uncertainty must be factored in. Di erent country contexts will create a variety of REDD+ models with di erent institutional and policy mixes. Uncertainties about the shape of the future global REDD+ system, national readiness and political consensus require exibility and a phased approach to REDD+ implementation.
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693030
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
REDD+ must be transformational. REDD+ requires broad institutional and governance reforms, such as tenure, decentralisation, and corruption control. These reforms will enable departures from business as usual, and involve communities and forest users in making and implementing policies that a ect them. Policies must go beyond forestry. REDD+ strategies must include policies outside the forestry sector narrowly de ned, such as agriculture and energy, and better coordinate across sectors to deal with non-forest drivers of deforestation and degradation. Performance-based payments are key, yet limited. Payments based on performance directly incentivise and compensate forest owners and users. But schemes such as payments for environmental services (PES) depend on conditions, such as secure tenure, solid carbon data and transparent governance, that are often lacking and take time to change. This constraint reinforces the need for broad institutional and policy reforms. We must learn from the past. Many approaches to REDD+ now being considered are similar to previous e orts to conserve and better manage forests, often with limited success. Taking on board lessons learned from past experience will improve the prospects of REDD+ e ectiveness. National circumstances and uncertainty must be factored in. Di erent country contexts will create a variety of REDD+ models with di erent institutional and policy mixes. Uncertainties about the shape of the future global REDD+ system, national readiness and political consensus require exibility and a phased approach to REDD+ implementation.
Transforming REDD+
Author: Angelsen, A.
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6023870791
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Constructive critique. This book provides a critical, evidence-based analysis of REDD+ implementation so far, without losing sight of the urgent need to reduce forest-based emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change. REDD+ as envisioned
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6023870791
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Constructive critique. This book provides a critical, evidence-based analysis of REDD+ implementation so far, without losing sight of the urgent need to reduce forest-based emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change. REDD+ as envisioned
REDD, Forest Governance and Rural Livelihoods
Author: Oliver Springate-Baginski
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693154
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Experiences from incentive-based forest management are examined for their effects on the livelihoods of local communities. In the second section, country case studies provide a snapshot of REDD developments to date and identify design features for REDD that would support benefits for forest communities.
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693154
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Experiences from incentive-based forest management are examined for their effects on the livelihoods of local communities. In the second section, country case studies provide a snapshot of REDD developments to date and identify design features for REDD that would support benefits for forest communities.
Malawi's National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Author: Malawi. Environmental Affairs Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Socio-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change in a Fragile Ecosystem
Author: Sosten Chiotha
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351057081
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017. The programme was designed to protect the livelihoods of the population and enhance resilience of the natural resource base upon which it depends. The Lake Chilwa Basin is an important wetland ecosystem which is a designated Ramsar Site under the Ramsar Wetland Convention and a Man and Biosphere Reserve designated by UNESCO. This book provides a review of the research and programme interventions done based on the ecosystem approach (EA), a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources. This is designed to promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way in its implementation of mitigation and climate change adaptation interventions. It is shown how: local and district institutions were strengthened to better manage natural resources and build resilience to climate change; cross-basin and cross-sector natural resource management and planning for climate change throughout the Basin were built; household and enterprise adaptive capacity in Basin hotspots was built; and improved forest management and governance contributed in mitigating the effects of climate change. The study followed all the twelve key EA principles with involvement of all key stakeholders. It is one of the first programmes to apply EA on such a wide temporal and spatial scale and provides key lessons to be learned for the protection of other fragile ecosystems in an era of climate change.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351057081
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017. The programme was designed to protect the livelihoods of the population and enhance resilience of the natural resource base upon which it depends. The Lake Chilwa Basin is an important wetland ecosystem which is a designated Ramsar Site under the Ramsar Wetland Convention and a Man and Biosphere Reserve designated by UNESCO. This book provides a review of the research and programme interventions done based on the ecosystem approach (EA), a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources. This is designed to promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way in its implementation of mitigation and climate change adaptation interventions. It is shown how: local and district institutions were strengthened to better manage natural resources and build resilience to climate change; cross-basin and cross-sector natural resource management and planning for climate change throughout the Basin were built; household and enterprise adaptive capacity in Basin hotspots was built; and improved forest management and governance contributed in mitigating the effects of climate change. The study followed all the twelve key EA principles with involvement of all key stakeholders. It is one of the first programmes to apply EA on such a wide temporal and spatial scale and provides key lessons to be learned for the protection of other fragile ecosystems in an era of climate change.
REDD++ Readiness in Africa: an Analysis of Stakeholder Participation in the National REDD+ Process of Ghana
Author: R.O. Ochieng
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Deforestation and forest degradation accounts for up to 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. After a series of international negotiations, a mechanism to reduce deforestation, forest degradation, and enhance carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+), today form part of international mechanisms to address climate change. The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) of the World Bank is assisting 37 developing countries to prepare for an international REDD+ regime. The Facility has developed guidelines for effective REDD+ strategy development that these countries must fulfill to be ready for REDD+. At the core of these guidelines is the need for effective participation of local communities, civil society, the private sector, and government agencies beyond the forest sector in a country’s REDD+ strategy development. This thesis contributes to the development of effective REDD+ strategies in Africa by examining participation of stakeholders in Ghana’s REDD+ process. Participation is analyzed along three aspects: involvement of local communities and other stakeholders, mechanisms to empower them and development of new or strengthening of existing institutions to institutionalize the mechanisms for empowerment and implement REDD+. Depending on the extent of stakeholders’ involvement in REDD+, the mechanisms to empower them, and the institutions proposed to institutionalize these mechanisms, the typologies of participation are identified. The study is based on literature review, 19 interviews with representatives involved in REDD+ and analysis of text documents. Results show that Ghana has involved a fair number of actors from all the groups of stakeholders in her REDD+ process. Importantly, the local communities have adequately been engaged in REDD+. Ghana has empowered the stakeholders by employing information and knowledge sharing platforms that have facilitated social inclusion and deliberation among them. Additionally, Ghana plans to empower the stakeholders by providing forest access rights, alternative livelihoods and equitable benefit sharing arrangements. New rules are under formulation to institutionalize benefit sharing and alternative livelihoods. Four typologies of participation: passive, information giving, consultation and self-mobilization are concurrently running in the REDD+ process. All these typologies are facilitating involvement of different groups of stakeholders in REDD+ and contributing uniquely to their empowerment. However, these typologies have not fully institutionalized stakeholders’ involvement in REDD+ and their empowerment. There are no rules to institutionalize their views in the national REDD+ strategy. Similarly, there are no rules to institutionalize their forest access rights and their rights to be consulted on all aspects of REDD+. Additionally, the stakeholders lack the power to influence and or take part in decision-making, which is necessary for effective stakeholders’ participation in integrated conservation and development programs that REDD+ is here understood to be. It is recommended that the Forestry Commission of Ghana devolve forest management and decisionmaking to the local level. It is further recommended that the Forestry Commission develop rules to institutionalize stakeholders’ views in strategies for REDD+, their forest access rights, and their right to be consulted on all aspects of REDD+. The study offers useful lessons for other countries and programs aiming to involve local communities in conservation and development programs and expands our understanding of how the various aspects of participation apply in practice.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Deforestation and forest degradation accounts for up to 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. After a series of international negotiations, a mechanism to reduce deforestation, forest degradation, and enhance carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+), today form part of international mechanisms to address climate change. The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) of the World Bank is assisting 37 developing countries to prepare for an international REDD+ regime. The Facility has developed guidelines for effective REDD+ strategy development that these countries must fulfill to be ready for REDD+. At the core of these guidelines is the need for effective participation of local communities, civil society, the private sector, and government agencies beyond the forest sector in a country’s REDD+ strategy development. This thesis contributes to the development of effective REDD+ strategies in Africa by examining participation of stakeholders in Ghana’s REDD+ process. Participation is analyzed along three aspects: involvement of local communities and other stakeholders, mechanisms to empower them and development of new or strengthening of existing institutions to institutionalize the mechanisms for empowerment and implement REDD+. Depending on the extent of stakeholders’ involvement in REDD+, the mechanisms to empower them, and the institutions proposed to institutionalize these mechanisms, the typologies of participation are identified. The study is based on literature review, 19 interviews with representatives involved in REDD+ and analysis of text documents. Results show that Ghana has involved a fair number of actors from all the groups of stakeholders in her REDD+ process. Importantly, the local communities have adequately been engaged in REDD+. Ghana has empowered the stakeholders by employing information and knowledge sharing platforms that have facilitated social inclusion and deliberation among them. Additionally, Ghana plans to empower the stakeholders by providing forest access rights, alternative livelihoods and equitable benefit sharing arrangements. New rules are under formulation to institutionalize benefit sharing and alternative livelihoods. Four typologies of participation: passive, information giving, consultation and self-mobilization are concurrently running in the REDD+ process. All these typologies are facilitating involvement of different groups of stakeholders in REDD+ and contributing uniquely to their empowerment. However, these typologies have not fully institutionalized stakeholders’ involvement in REDD+ and their empowerment. There are no rules to institutionalize their views in the national REDD+ strategy. Similarly, there are no rules to institutionalize their forest access rights and their rights to be consulted on all aspects of REDD+. Additionally, the stakeholders lack the power to influence and or take part in decision-making, which is necessary for effective stakeholders’ participation in integrated conservation and development programs that REDD+ is here understood to be. It is recommended that the Forestry Commission of Ghana devolve forest management and decisionmaking to the local level. It is further recommended that the Forestry Commission develop rules to institutionalize stakeholders’ views in strategies for REDD+, their forest access rights, and their right to be consulted on all aspects of REDD+. The study offers useful lessons for other countries and programs aiming to involve local communities in conservation and development programs and expands our understanding of how the various aspects of participation apply in practice.