From CDM to REDD+ — What do we know for setting up effective and legitimate carbon governance?

Lederer, Markus

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.02.003

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“…The experiences of this NGO teach us important lessons for carbon governance in general like the post Kyoto carbon trading mechanism "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" (REDD+) [63]. The emerging carbon economy has the potential to become an important driver for large-scale land conversion [64,65].…”

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confidence: 99%

Pioneering in Marginal Fields: Jatropha for Carbon Credits and Restoring Degraded Land in Eastern Indonesia

Rooijen

2014

Sustainability

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This paper highlights the role of a national Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Indonesia as "pioneer" actor in the jatropha global production network, linking solutions for local problems with narratives concerning global concerns. Analysis of previous activities of the NGO positions their jatropha project as one period in a sequence of donor-funded appropriate technology programs. On the island of Flores in Eastern Indonesia the NGO aimed to establish community based jatropha cultivation exclusively on "degraded land", avoiding threats to food cultivation, and responding to local problems of land degradation and water resources depletion. In contrast with investors interested in jatropha based biofuel production for export, the NGO aimed at developing biofuel for local needs, including jatropha based electricity generation in the regional state-owned power plant. Anticipating progress in international and national regulations concerning the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) the 2008 project's design included carbon credit income as a main source of future project financing. Using methods of socio-legal studies and political ecology, this study indicates that when the economic feasibility of a project is based on the future financial value of a legally constructed commodity like carbon credits, the sustainability of the project outcome can be questionable. The author recommends precaution when it comes to including anticipated income from carbon credits in calculating the economic viability of a project, as price developments can fluctuate when political support and regulations change.

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Pioneering in Marginal Fields: Jatropha for Carbon Credits and Restoring Degraded Land in Eastern Indonesia

Rooijen

2014

Sustainability

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“…The most important of these alternative mechanisms is REDD? (Lederer 2011). This allows the recognition of (and payments for) existing carbon, in contrast to A/R schemes which require change in land use from non-forest to forested land.…”

Section: Objective 2: Review Of Current Options For Carbon Trading Camentioning

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Turning the Tide: How Blue Carbon and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Might Help Save Mangrove Forests

Locatelli

Binet

Kairo

et al. 2014

AMBIO

143

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In this review paper, we aim to describe the potential for, and the key challenges to, applying PES projects to mangroves. By adopting a ''carbocentric approach,'' we show that mangrove forests are strong candidates for PES projects. They are particularly well suited to the generation of carbon credits because of their unrivaled potential as carbon sinks, their resistance and resilience to natural hazards, and their extensive provision of Ecosystem Services other than carbon sequestration, primarily nursery areas for fish, water purification and coastal protection, to the benefit of local communities as well as to the global population. The voluntary carbon market provides opportunities for the development of appropriate protocols and good practice case studies for mangroves at a small scale, and these may influence larger compliance schemes in the future. Mangrove habitats are mostly located in developing countries on communally or state-owned land. This means that issues of national and local governance, land ownership and management, and environmental justice are the main challenges that require careful planning at the early stages of mangrove PES projects to ensure successful outcomes and equitable benefit sharing within local communities.

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“…objectives, which may lead to a neglect of input legitimacy-in the form of full and effective participation of relevant stakeholders. Lederer (2011) suggests that REDD? will not save Indonesia's forests alone, and that attempting to do this while simultaneously preserving biodiversity and local people's livelihoods is an immense task, which will inevitably lead to trade-offs and unintended consequences such as community conflicts and loss of livelihoods.…”

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“…Input legitimacy Legitimacy in REDD? governance in Indonesia 697 exists when stakeholders are involved in the decision-making process (Lederer 2011). This research uses the proxy of inclusion and participation of local people in decision-making processes to measure the performance of input legitimacy.…”

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Legitimacy in REDD+ governance in Indonesia

Glover

Schroeder

2017

Int Environ Agreements

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This paper addresses the question of legitimacy in REDD? governance in Indonesia. It develops a legitimacy framework that builds on elements of Scharpf (J Eur Pub Policy 4(1):18-36, 1997) input and output legitimacy concept and the political economy lens described by Brockhaus and Angelsen (Analysing REDD?: Challenges and choices, CIFOR, Bogor, 2012). Using data collected through key informant interviews and focus groups, we identify and explore stakeholder perceptions of legitimacy. The analysis reveals a complex interplay between input and output legitimacy, finding that state, nonstate and hybrid actors perceive output legitimacy (i.e. project outcomes) as highly dependent on the level of input legitimacy achieved during the governance process. Nonstate actors perceive proxies for input legitimacy, such as participation and inclusion of local people, as goals in themselves. In the main, they perceive inclusion to be integral to the empowerment of local people. They perceive output legitimacy as less important because of the intangibility of REDD? outcomes at this stage in the process. The findings also highlight the challenges associated with measuring the legitimacy of REDD? governance in Indonesia.

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From CDM to REDD+ — What do we know for setting up effective and legitimate carbon governance?

Cited by 87 publications

References 33 publications

Pioneering in Marginal Fields: Jatropha for Carbon Credits and Restoring Degraded Land in Eastern Indonesia

Pioneering in Marginal Fields: Jatropha for Carbon Credits and Restoring Degraded Land in Eastern Indonesia

Turning the Tide: How Blue Carbon and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Might Help Save Mangrove Forests

Legitimacy in REDD+ governance in Indonesia

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