Assessing capacities of non-Annex I countries for national forest monitoring in the context of REDD+

Romijn, Erika; Herold, Martin; Kooistra, Lammert; Murdiyarso, Daniel; Verchot, Louis

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2012.01.005

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“…Reviews of REDD+ cases across several countries have shown capacity building to be a central objective which issues from international guidelines on REDD+ [10]. However, literature also shows the great deal of financial, technical and administrative resources being devoted to capacity building for REDD+ is not translating to commensurate improvement in local and national capacity, thereby pointing to the motley of factors that shape capacity building processes [6,41,65,92]. Part of the problem, Lund et al [41] argue in their analysis of Tanzania, is the inherent and insidiously alienating technicality and complexity of REDD+ which "did not fall from the sky" but has been produced through the self-interested and self-reproducing ways in which actors in the state, civil society and international organisations project REDD+ [30,43,93].…”

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REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

Asiyanbi¹,

Arhin²,

Isyaku³

2016

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This paper analyses the design and implementation of REDD+ in the West African region, an important global biodiversity area. Drawing on in-depth interviews, analysis of policy documents and observation of everyday activities, we sought to understand how REDD+ has been designed and implemented in Nigeria and Ghana. We draw on tools from political ecology to examine how, and why REDD+ takes the form it does in these countries. We focus on three key dimensions that emerged as strong areas of common emphasis in our case studies --capacity building, carbon visibility, and property rights. First, we show that, while REDD+ design generally foregrounds an ostensible inclusionary politics, its implementation is driven through various forms of exclusion. This contradictory inclusion-exclusion politics, which is partly emblematic of the neoliberal provenance of the REDD+ policy, is also a contingent reality and a strategy for navigating complexities and pursuing certain interests. Second, we show that though the emergent foci of REDD+ implementation in our case studies align with global REDD+ expectations, they yet manifest as historically and geographically contingent processes that reflect negotiated and contested relations among actors that constitute the specific national circumstance of each country. We conclude by reflecting on the wider implications of these findings for understanding REDD+ implementation more broadly.

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“…For instance, in one extensive review of the capacity of 99 countries to engage in REDD+ [65] found that "very large capacity gaps were observed in forty-nine countries, mostly in Africa". This and many other studies have called for institutional and technical capacity for countries as a key focus of implementation of REDD+ [41,92].…”

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REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

Asiyanbi¹,

Arhin²,

Isyaku³

2016

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“…The repetitive global nature of these images is especially important for those working in places with persistent cloud cover, where capturing every avail able clear pixel of imagery is a necessity due to frequently obscuring clouds. These areas are among the most biologically diverse and often located in places having less capacity for in situ monitoring (Romijn et al, 2012).…”

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Free and open-access satellite data are key to biodiversity conservation

Turner¹,

Rondinini

Pettorelli

et al. 2015

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Satellite remote sensing is an important tool for monitoring the status of biodiversity and associated environmental parameters, including certain elements of habitats. However, satellite data are currently underused within the biodiversity research and conservation communities. Three factors have significant impact on the utility of remote sensing data for tracking and understanding biodiversity change. They are its continuity, affordability, and access. Data continuity relates to the maintenance of long term satellite data products. Such products promote knowledge of how biodiversity has changed over time and why. Data affordability arises from the cost of the imagery. New data policies promoting free and open access to government satellite imagery are expanding the use of certain imagery but the number of free and open data sets remains too limited. Data access addresses the ability of conservation biologists and bio diversity researchers to discover, retrieve, manipulate, and extract value from satellite imagery as well as link it with other types of information. Tools are rapidly improving access. Still, more cross community interactions are necessary to strengthen ties between the biodiversity and remote sensing communities.

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“…As Grainger and Obersteiner (2011) also observe, the few studies that have attempted to examine whether REDD+ countries fulfil UNFCCC's requirements for MRV (e.g. Romijn et al, 2012; have concentrated on technical aspects only, leaving out institutional and governance aspects. This dissertation addresses this research gap by examining REDD+ countries' progress in meeting technical and governance requirements for MRV.…”

Section: Scholarship On Forest Monitoring For Redd+ and Emerging Resementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many researchers Grainger and Obersteiner, 2011;Herold, 2009;Herold and Johns, 2007;Palmer Fry, 2011;Pratihast et al, 2013;Romijn et al, 2012;Skutsch and McCall, 2010) have examined the technical capacity of REDD+ countries to monitor REDD+ impacts. These researchers have concluded that most REDD+ countries not only have low technical capacity but also weak institutional capacity to monitor REDD+ impacts.…”

Section: Scholarship On Forest Monitoring For Redd+ and Emerging Resementioning

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The role of forests in climate change mitigation : a discursive-institutional analysis of REDD+ MRV

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Assessing capacities of non-Annex I countries for national forest monitoring in the context of REDD+

Cited by 172 publications

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REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

Free and open-access satellite data are key to biodiversity conservation

The role of forests in climate change mitigation : a discursive-institutional analysis of REDD+ MRV

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