May 20, 2012
Over the past two years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th and 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The resulting booklets Forests and Climate Change After Copenhagen: An Asia-Pacific Perspective and Forests and Climate Change After Cancun: An...
The management of Asia’s forests affects diverse stakeholders and interests, inevitably resulting in conflict. This study focuses on conflicts between local communities and outsiders: the underlying causes, conflict management approaches, and eventual outcomes. Field data was collected through interviews and focus group discussions in seven community-outsider conflict cases across five countries. While many direct conflict triggers were observed, at least three underlying and...
This training manual has been prepared for national and district level facilitators who are willing to learn and share the knowledge about climate change and REDD+ to different stakeholders in order to build capacity and raise their awareness.
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International attention is focused on finding ways to reduce emissions from deforestation because of the emerging concerns over climate change. However the causes of deforestation are rooted in current economic and development paradigms. The causes of deforestation also vary across different geographical regions and have implications for the forest transition.
Attempts to reach an international agreement on curbing deforestation have achieved little success despite over...
This study provides preliminary information on the potential for REDD+ in Laos PDR by surveying forest cover change and carbon density. The method used in this report were to first study forest cover change and carbon density using coarse-resolution forest cover data available in the Vegetation Continuous Fields data product. This information was used to prioritise certain areas as having good potential for REDD+.
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SNV in collaboration with Rainforest Alliance and WWF carried out a study to evaluate the feasibility of developing a forest carbon project in Quang Tri Province following an Improved Forest Management project type and implemented by private smallholder farmers growing acacia plantations which could potentially be certified to FSC standards. The feasibility study: (i) determined the amount of carbon sequestered when rotation lengths for acacia plantations are extended and FSC practices...
Tropical peatlands are widely distributed throughout Indonesia, Malaysia and several other countries in South East Asia. They play an important role in stabilizing the ecosystem, particularly in regulating drainage, microclimate, and water quality and soil formation. In Vietnam, approximately 183,000 ha of peat swamps can be found, mainly located in the Lower Mekong Basin. There are two main areas of where peat remains: in Kien Giang and Ca Mau provinces. The peatland area found within U...
As part of SNV’s REDD+ interventions in Vietnam, Nghe An has been identified as a important Province to work on REDD+. The Province has high forest cover, and is subject to deforestation and degradation. It is also home to many ethnic minority groups. In order to better understand and design possible REDD+ interventions a pilot study was carried to better understand the socio-economic conditions and drivers of deforestation and forest degradation with a number of identified districts...
Recently in Vietnam, a coalition of international NGOs, donors and government officials have been promoting market-based forest conservation projects in the form of payments for environmental services (PES) as a win–win for both conservation and development objectives; Vietnam is now the first country in Southeast Asia with a national law on PES.
This article provides a macro survey of how market-based instruments for forest conservation have expanded in Vietnam,...
The originality of the REDD proposal is its incentives-based mechanism designed to reward the governments of developing countries for their performance in reducing deforestation as measured against a baseline. This mechanism is founded on the hypothesis that developing countries ‘pay’ an opportunity cost to conserve their forests and would prefer other choices and convert their wooden lands to other uses. The basic idea is, therefore, to pay rents to these countries to compensate for the...