Impacts on poverty and sustainable development of the REDD architectures: for equity options, growth and for the environment
This is a project involving different countries - Brazil, Earn, Vietnam, Tanzania and Uganda – led by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED, UK) and the University of Norway (EMU). The project aims to increase understanding of how different design options and international policies, national and subnational REDD will impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the co-benefits of sustainable development and on poverty reduction.
Project Coordination:
Local organizations:
Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (Brazil)
Hamilton Resources (Earn)
SNV (Vietnam)
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation (Tanzania)
Makerere University, Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation (Uganda)
Financiamanto:
The project is funded by Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), as part of the Initiative for Climate and Forests (Climate and Forests Initiative), the Norwegian government.
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Impacts on poverty and sustainable development of the REDD architectures: for equity options, growth and for the environment |
1ª fase: July 2009 the May 20 102 Phase: beginning in May 2010 | May 2013 |
| Reducing deforestation and forest degradation has become a central issue of development and climate. The conversion of natural forests, We mainly tropics, responsible, according to estimates by the IPCC about 17-18% global emissions of greenhouse gases; the poor, dependent on the forest, more than a billion. The ongoing negotiations on a REDD foresee a way to encourage forest conservation and could bring benefits to developing countries that have forest cover. However, dividing benefits, between countries and between different stakeholders and user types of forest resources within countries depend on the rules of REDD projects at the international, national and subnacional.O project "Impacts on poverty and sustainable development of REDD architectures: options for growth, equity and the environment "is a multi-countries led by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED, UK) and the University of Life Sciences (Aas, Norway), which aims to increase understanding of how different design options and international policies, national and subnational REDD will impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the co-benefits of sustainable development and on poverty reduction. The project is funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), as part of the Initiative for Climate and Forests (Climate and Forests Initiative), norueguês.O government strategy development, analysis and policy is being conducted in collaboration with local partners in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnamese Brasil e – FAS is the local partner to Brazil. In addition to examining scenarios of internal distribution and allocation of REDD payments under different options, both nationally and internationally, the project is working with REDD pilot projects selected in each of the five countries to generate evidence and improve the understanding of the impacts on poverty of REDD pilot actions, the relative merits of the different types of payment mechanisms and costs transação.À sub-Saharan Africa has been given special attention, because this region is considered as having the biggest gaps in the ability to quantify and analyze the impacts of development likely to REDD. Brazil and Vietnam were included because both countries are already implementing policies and programs to reduce deforestation and increase forest cover. It was decided to focus on the state of Amazonas in Brazil, with the Bolsa Floresta program. No Vietna, the government has a program of reforestation of five million hectares and new policies to implement payments for environmental services. This allows the project partners also conduct exchanges of experiences. In August 2010, for example, project partners have made a visit to some communities that participate in the Scholarship Program in the Amazon Forest, Brazil, to see for themselves how a REDD scheme can work in practice. | ||
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| Increase understanding of how different design options and international policies, national and subnational REDD will impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the co-benefits of sustainable development and on reduction of pobreza.Além scenarios to examine domestic distribution and allocation of REDD payments under different options, both nationally and internationally, the project is working with REDD pilot projects selected in each of the five countries to generate evidence and improve the understanding of the impacts on poverty of REDD pilot actions, the relative merits of the different types of payment mechanisms and transaction costs. | ||
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| The costs of REDD: lessons from AmazonasNovember, 2009 | ||
Source: IIED – http://www.iied.org/natural-resources/key-issues/forestry/poverty-and-sustainable-development-impacts-redd-architecture
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