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REDD+ within the WEL nexus

Opportunities and tradeoffs

Kristy Graham

May 2011

Outline

• What is REDD+?
• REDD+ as a land use option
• Tradeoffs of using land for REDD+ vs other uses
• Tradeoffs will depend on policies in other sectors e.g.

energy, agriculture

• Governance and its importance for REDD+
• Suggestions for further work

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Definition

• Scope

Cancun Agreements: Encourages developing country Parties to contribute to mitigation actions in the forest sector by undertaking the following activities: (a) Reducing emissions from deforestation; (b) Reducing emissions from forest degradation; (c) Conservation of forest carbon stocks; (d) Sustainable management of forests; (e) Enhancement of forest carbon stocks;

• Financial transfer

– any international financial transfer mechanism that aims to reduce emissions from the forest sector, and reduce emissions from land use change from forest to non-forest.

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REDD+ as a land use option

• Aims to provide incentives to limit land use change

from forest to non-forest, but what is it competing with?

– Agriculture

• Food production
• Cash crop production e.g. Palm oil
• Biofuel feedstock production e.g. sugar, soy
• Aims to provide incentives to reduce emissions within

the forest sector. Competes with

– Intensive timber harvesting – Fuel wood and charcoal industries – Illegal logging activities

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Tradeoffs

• There are tradeoffs that will need to be made if

countries decide to implement REDD+.

• Costs and benefits at the national, regional and local

levels.

• Cost Benefit Analysis of REDD+ vs other land uses,

and also of different strategies to implement REDD+. – WBI manual – Indonesia REDD+ v Palm Oil – Broader CBA for Indonesia 5

Graphical demonstration of economic tradeoffs

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Source: WBI 2011

Links with other sectors

• Many of the drivers of deforestation and degradation

are in other sectors e.g. agriculture and energy

• The tradeoffs involved in REDD+ will depend heavily
• n policies in the other sectors

– Energy policies in within a country if wood fuel industry is a driver of DD – International bioenergy policies if biofuel feedstock production directly or indirectly drives deforestation – Diet preference in western and emerging economies driving increased agricultural production – Agricultural support policies where they alter the economics of agricultural expansion and/or intensification

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Comparison of REDD+ with other land uses

Economic Environment (non carbon) Environment (carbon) Social Intensive logging +

• +/?

Agroforestry (REDD+) + + + + Food production +

• /?

? + Biofuel feedstock production + Locally = - Globally = +/?

• /?

? Forest conservation (REDD+) ? + + ?

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The importance of governance

• To be effective REDD+ should involve transformation
• f land use.
• Will require broad political support high level to local

level.

• Ensuring it contributes to inclusive growth will require

deliberate policy decisions.

• Large scale land-use planning will be required to

clearly establish priority areas for different land uses. 9

Further work

• Case study on how countries are implementing

REDD+ to achieve poverty reduction and inclusive growth e.g. Ecuador, Tanzania.

• Case study on an area where REDD+ is contributing

to increased competition for land e.g. East Kalimantan in the area covered by the Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership which is also an area of palm oil production.

• Case study of strategic land use planning and how it

has worked in practice. 10