Toward REDD+ Implementation

Maniatis, Danae; Scriven, Joel; Jonckheere, Inge; Laughlin, Jennifer; Todd, Kimberly

doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-060839

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“…After controlling for spatial location, we found that allocating indigenous lands (i.e., ITs and OAs) secured similar or even larger carbon stocks than PAs between 2003 and 2016 in Panama and Amazon Basin countries. These findings are in line with Nolte et al (12) million USD, respectively (60). For the critical role they play in reducing net carbon emissions, indigenous peoples and local communities must become recipients of such benefits, independent of the opportunity costs of avoided deforestation and degradation (61).…”

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“…After controlling the influence of spatial location, we found that protected lands with fewer million USD, respectively (60). For the critical role they play in reducing net carbon emissions, indigenous peoples and local communities must become recipients of such benefits, independent of the opportunity costs of avoided deforestation and degradation (61).…”

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Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs

Alejo

Meyer

Walker

et al. 2020

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Indigenous Territories (ITs) and Community Managed Protected Areas (PAs) with less restriction on forest use than integral PAs may represent cost-effective natural climate solutions to meet the Paris agreement. However, the literature has been limited to examining the effect of ITs and Community Managed PAs on deforestation, despite the influence of anthropogenic degradation. Thus, little is known about the temporal and spatial effect of allocating ITs and Community Managed PAs on carbon stocks dynamics that account for losses from deforestation and degradation. Using Amazon Basin countries and Panama at the national level, and Petén (Guatemala) and Acre (Brazil) at the subnational level, this study aims to estimate the temporal and spatial effects of ITs and PAs on carbon stocks. To estimate the temporal effects, we use annual carbon density maps, matching analysis, and linear mixed models. Furthermore, we explore the spatial biases derived from matching analysis and use geographic discontinuity designs to assess the spatial effect of PAs and ITs boundaries on carbon stocks. The temporal effects highlight that allocating ITs preserves carbon stocks and buffer losses as PAs in Panama and Amazon Basin countries. Community Managed PAs temporal effect on carbon stocks surpasses that of integral PAs in Petén (Guatemala) and Acre (Brazil). The geographic discontinuity designs reveal that ITs and Community Managed PAs boundaries secure more extensive carbon stocks than their surroundings, and this difference tends to increase towards the least accessible areas. These results also suggest that indigenous and community land-use in neotropical forests may have a limited and stable spatial impact on carbon stocks. Our findings imply that ITs and Community Managed PAs in neotropical forests support Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Thus, Indigenous peoples and local communities must become recipients of countries’ results-based payments.

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Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs

Alejo

Meyer

Walker

et al. 2020

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“…While some work has been done on the conceptual level (e.g. Harstad 2012), the REDD+ process (Maniatis et al 2019) and the failure of the Yasuni initiative (Sovacool and Scarpaci 2016) show the complexity of such approaches for which a thorough economics analysis is still missing. 10.…”

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“…Harstad 2012 ), the REDD+ process (Maniatis et al. 2019 ) and the failure of the Yasuni initiative (Sovacool and Scarpaci 2016 ) show the complexity of such approaches for which a thorough economics analysis is still missing. Conflicts over natural resources Climate change and decarbonization transform regional and global geopolitical landscapes and might give rise to future domestic as well as international conflicts (Mach et al.…”

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Twenty Key Challenges in Environmental and Resource Economics

Bretschger

Pittel

2020

Environ Resource Econ

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Economic and ecological systems are closely interlinked at a global and a regional level, offering a broad variety of important research topics in environmental and resource economics. The successful identification of key challenges for current and future research supports development of novel theories, empirical applications, and appropriate policy designs. It allows establishing a future-oriented research agenda whose ultimate goal is an efficient, equitable, and sustainable use of natural resources. Based on a normative foundation, the paper aims to identify fundamental topics, current trends, and major research gaps to motivate further development of academic work in the field.

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“…Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and fostering conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+) builds upon this mechanism with the aim of climate change mitigation, sustainable forest management, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation [1,2]. In the international arena, REDD+ is based on the notion of results-based finance at the country level [3][4][5]. The assessment of results requires an accurate, reliable, and transparent national forest monitoring system (NFMS) to perform MRV that meets international standards.…”

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Aiming for Sustainability and Scalability: Community Engagement in Forest Payment Schemes

Kowler

Pratihast

Arco

et al. 2020

Forests

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Community-based forest monitoring is seen as a way both to improve community engagement and participation in national environmental payment schemes and climate mitigation priorities and to implement reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and foster conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+). There is a strong assumption among community-based monitoring advocates that community monitoring is a desirable approach. However, it is unclear why community members would want to participate in their own surveillance or be involved in a program likely to limit livelihood uses of forest areas and possibly even sanction them based on the data provided. This paper explores these issues by examining three communities involved in Peru's Conditional Direct Transfer Program, in which indigenous communities are compensated for protecting communal forests through various mechanisms, including forest monitoring. The case studies focus specifically on communities that received smartphones and were trained in their use for monitoring. The results affirm the importance that benefits outweigh the costs of local participation to sustain motivation. They also point to key factors supporting the legitimacy of the program, specifically to overcome historical tensions between the state and indigenous communities. These include the nature of engagement by program implementers and the importance of building trust over time.

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Toward REDD+ Implementation

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Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs

Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs

Twenty Key Challenges in Environmental and Resource Economics

Aiming for Sustainability and Scalability: Community Engagement in Forest Payment Schemes

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