IIED's future work in REDD+

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Isilda Nhantumbo7/03/2014

Implementing REDD+

Author nameDateIsilda Nhantumbo7/03/2014

NRG and SMG

REDD+

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Implementing REDD+

What IIED has been doing

• Risks of commodification of carbon and increased value of forests; active protection of rights

• Inclusive REDD+ models • Gender equity and safeguards• Transaction costs• Preferences of communities

• Lessons for REDD+: compensation to incentivize change in behaviour and practices;

• Governance is crucial for effective payments

• Agriculture – land productivity and food security

• Efficiency of production and consumption of biomass energy (concession model)

• Viability and opportunity costs• Reconciling REDD+ and

development priorities

• Protection of carbon stocks may contribute to enhancement of biodiversity conservation

• SESA• Synergies between CBD and

REDD+ • Developing countries set

priorities• Equity

Biodiversity and

safeguards

Addressing drivers

Tenure, benefits

and costs

PES and CBNRM

Global level analysis, support national governments (e.g. SS-REDD), work with land users (subsistence and commercial)

Pro-Poor REDD+SMG and NRG

South-South (Brazil-Mozambique)REDD+ - NRG

Testing REDD+NRG

Inclusive REDD+(PS,Gender,DRC)

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Partnerships are key• Global level analysis• Country level in depth work – Brazil, DRC, Ghana,

Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Vietnam, Nepal, DRC

• Funds – Norway, United Kingdom, EU

... Forest ActionIUCN, CIFOR,..

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OutputsJournal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, Vol. 15, No. 4 (December 2013) 1350021 (20 pages)

ESSAM YASSIN MOHAMMED, INA PORRAS, MARYANNE GRIEG-GRAN, LUIZA LIMA, AFRIANO SOARES, JOAO TEZZA NETO and VIRGILIO VIANAInternational Institute for Environment and DevelopmentLondon, UK

Communication with various audiences including climate change negotiators (COP official and non-official events)

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6. Work ahead• Economics of pro-poor REDD+ delivery models

• Viability of models - energy, agriculture, urbanization, domestic and international demand

• Benefit sharing and preferences (scale and representativeness)

• Approaches to monitoring smallholder carbon projects

• – reduce transaction costs

• Research and testing REDD+ on the ground through local partners – budget funds for investment packages

• Safeguards – promoting equity in REDD+

• Gender – drivers-commodity nexus, value chain analysis to understand the profit margins and how to ensure win-win strategy options for men and women

• Private sector REDD+ – effective, equitable and inclusive

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MozambiqueThe complex landscape of REDD+

Isilda Nhantumbo

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Drivers

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ER models/activities


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2. Work ahead – listening, learning and evidence for policy

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Thank You

Education

IIED's future work in REDD+