Community Monitoring for REDD International Promises and Field Realities

Will community monitoring assist in delivering just and equitable REDD+? We assessed whether local communities can effectively estimate carbon stocks in some of the world’s most carbon rich forests, using simple field protocols, and we reviewed whether community monitoring exists in current REDD+ pi...

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Published inEcology and society Vol. 18; no. 3; p. 41
Main Authors Danielsen, Finn, Adrian, Teis, Brofeldt, Søren, van Noordwijk, Meine, Poulsen, Michael K., Rahayu, Subekti, Rutishauser, Ervan, Theilade, Ida, Widayati, Atiek, An, Ngo The, Bang, Tran Nguyen, Budiman, Arif, Enghoff, Martin, Jensen, Arne E., Kurniawan, Yuyun, Li, Qiaohong, Mingxu, Zhao, Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich, Prixa, Suoksompong, Thoumtone, Vongvisouk, Warta, Zulfira, Burgess, Neil
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Resilience Alliance 01.09.2013
Subjects
biodiversity
Biomass
Climate
Communities
Community and Biodiversity Alliance standard
Community forestry
Degraded forests
forest carbon
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest management
governance
livelihood
monitoring
Payment for Ecosystem Service programs
REDD
REDD program
Southeast Asia
Trees
Tropical rain forests
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Summary:Will community monitoring assist in delivering just and equitable REDD+? We assessed whether local communities can effectively estimate carbon stocks in some of the world’s most carbon rich forests, using simple field protocols, and we reviewed whether community monitoring exists in current REDD+ pilots. We obtained similar results for forest carbon when measured by communities and professional foresters in 289 vegetation plots in Southeast Asia. Most REDD+ monitoring schemes, however, contain no community involvement. To close the gulf between United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change texts on involving communities and field implementation realities, we propose greater embedding of community monitoring within national REDD+ pilot schemes, which we argue will lead to a more just REDD+.
ISSN:1708-3087
1708-3087
DOI:10.5751/ES-05464-180341