R& D Research & Development Bottom Up for REDD +

CO2 Capture and Storage @ community landscape

level

Where you work means Who you work with

Where: Forests

Agro-forests landscapes Agricultural

Who: in each of these organizations land use systems

Oaxaca, Mexico SAO - Oaxacan Environmental Services

Where- type of landscape & vegetation

16 community forests +

22 shade coffee producing units

Who – organizations

SAO

2 UnionsForestEjidos

Indigenous Muncipality

3 ejidos

Federation Coffee

producing cooperatives

“Translation” to local understanding

1- What is CO2? - Translate abstract to the concrete. (5 pools) - Providing a service not a good

- Why should they be interested, who is buying?

2 - What does capture & storage mean?

3- Translate into: (most important)- Changes in cultural/management practices (collective/indiv)

- Changes in forest use (consumptive) What you have to stop doing/taking? (firewood) What new things you have to do?(fire

prevention)

Trade off analysis - Self evaluation

• They calculate the costs of these changes:

- subsistence sphere

- existing market relations (goods)

- social infrastructure sphere

• $$$$ They weigh costs vs. payments (trade offs)

• They decide if its worth it????

Management = rights & responsibilities

Translate Upload

Participatory Community/local management across landscapes or territory (learn and enforce)

LUCUC - technical measurement instrument for CO2 storage

* Recalculate the costs to the community

Benefits Distribution = legitimacy

• They (who) decide what they want to do with the funds, how and where: (legitimacy is the guarantee for longevity)

- Collective funds: social spending

- In-kind development assistance (CBF)

Social infrastructure

- Household level dividends

- Transparency - (communication)

Negotiation

• Whoever negotiates must represent the interests and proposals of the membership

• And have the technical capacity to engage with ‘buyers.’

• Communication on changes w/ membership

Monitoring and Verification

• $$$$ Up to now, communities still have a marginal gain from price paid.

• Clincher – Who monitors ???

and where does the funding come from???

* Renegotiations- communities can

Costs of R & D Bottom Up

Bottom up for buy-in …… Long term guarantee for CO2 storage

Costs: to organizations • Field work and consensus building mtgs• Producing people’s time (compensation)• Travel, shelter and food for meetings• Training on technical issues • Transformation & translation of key documents• Communications (radio, brochures, manuals)