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Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people Simon Counsell, Director, Rainforest Foundation UK
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Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous peopleSimon Counsell, Director, Rainforest Foundation UK
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
“Forest” is a minimum area of land of 0.05-1.0 hectares with tree crown cover…of more than 10-30 per cent with trees with the potential to reach a minimum height of 2-5 metres at maturity in situ…[…]…Young natural stands and all plantations which have yet to reach a crown density of 10-30 per cent or tree height of 2-5 metres are included under forest…”
UNFCCC, ‘Marrakesh Accords, 21 January 2002
Monitoring/definitions
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Natural re-growth on previously cleared land?
Semi-natural forest?
Natural forest?
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Targeting the wrong people?
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Minimum standards for Independent Forest Monitoring:
- Access to information - Freedom to investigate and monitor- Reporting Panel- Freedom to publish
Monitoring
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Independent monitoring specific to REDD:
- Rights to the resource - Transparency and participation in decision-making- Product and service tracking- Law enforcement- Revenue distribution- Accountability
Monitoring
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
International agency
National agency
Sub-national/provincial agency
Local agency/communities
Independent audit of transactions
Independent monitoring of results
Within or between communities
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
• Gold Standard (GS) • Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS)• VER+• The Voluntary Offset Standard (VOS)• Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)• The Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS)• Plan Vivo System• CarbonFix Standard (CFS)• ….how many more to come…??……
Which standard?
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
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Permanence
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
Permanence
Monitoring, permanence, and indigenous people
“The consequences of the displacement and resettlement [of indigenous peoples] has in turn a set of degrading effects on forest ecosystems.”
(Cernea and Schmidt-Soltau, 2003)
Permanence
