Jurisdictional REDD: Long Deferred, Soon Delivered examines the state of «jurisdictional» REDD programs — government - to - government programs that are designed to reduce deforestation across an entire state or country.
Fortunately, jurisdictions like the Brazilian state of Acre are developing «
jurisdictional REDD» programs to do just...
One option is to earn REDD income from the Brazilian state of Rondônia under an emerging «jurisdictional» approach like the one the state of Acre has implemented («
jurisdictional REDD») last year.
The ACR Nested REDD + Standard was developed by Winrock International and ACR with assistance from
a jurisdictional REDD + Technical Advisory Team.
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Jurisdictional REDD + could be an «add - on» for supply - chain solutions, but the farm - by - farm monitoring of the Soy and Cattle Moratoria have been demonstrated to lead to changes within months, whereas REDD + has been a very slow boil over many years.»
The cancelled program has been roundly criticized by REDD advocates, and it employed none of the methodology or safeguards that are cornerstones of
jurisdictional REDD as outlined in ROW.
Josefina Braña - Varela, Policy Director of WWF's Forest & Climate Initiative, said she supports the Chiapas government's decision to shut down the subsidy program and to focus its efforts on capacity - building for
jurisdictional REDD, but she also wishes the message from the Chiapas government had been clearer.
The workshop will go over questions such as: How should partner jurisdictions develop a robust safeguards system as part of
their jurisdictional REDD + programs?
It will focus, in particular, on regulatory design elements and the legal and institutional mechanisms that would be required to enable California to recognize emissions reductions from
jurisdictional REDD programs as offsets under California's cap - and - trade program.
Not exact matches
Though the remaining two - thirds of
REDD offset demand came mainly from companies pursuing corporate social responsibility targets, the government - to - government deal marked the type of «
jurisdictional or state - scale initiative that is likely to become more common in the future.
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REDD + (acronym for public forest conservation finance), particularly at the
jurisdictional level, is still developing, and shouldn't be viewed as a replacement for farm - by - farm filtering that has been demonstrated effective for soy and cattle in the Brazilian Amazon,» she says.
«This is because we believe scaling up
REDD will be easiest at this
jurisdictional level.»
ACR also published its Nested
REDD + Standard, which provides technical and safeguard requirements for
REDD + projects nested within a
jurisdictional accounting framework to register on ACR.
The largest internal standard is the Acre Carbon Standard, used by the Brazilian state to track performance against emissions reductions targets as Acre continues its pilot under VCS
jurisdictional nested
REDD + standard.
The state of Acre is already funding Life Plans under a
jurisdictional approach to
REDD, and if the state of Rondônia — or even the municipality of Ji - Paraná, where Igarapé Lourdes is located — gets its carbon - accounting system in order, then maybe the Gavião and Arara can benefit, too.
ACR's
REDD + safeguard requirements rely on existing, credible project - level safeguard standards as well as internationally recognized
jurisdictional safeguard framework approaches.
Tracy Johns, Director of
Jurisdictional Programs at the
REDD project developer Wildlife Works, says the actual carbon accounting can easily be built around an existing Life Plan.
Winrock International, a world leader in developing environmentally rigorous forest carbon standards and methodologies, has developed technical guidance for registration on its American Carbon Registry (ACR) of
REDD + projects nested within a
jurisdictional accounting framework.
What's emerged is a clear chronicle of the history of
REDD — beginning with the very first experiments in the late 1980s, continuing through the evolution of rigorous methodologies, and culminating with the current
jurisdictional proposals being discussed in Bonn and how they dovetail with emerging efforts to purge deforestation from corporate supply chains.
We initiated the approval process for six new methodologies, expected to be adopted in 2012, including
REDD + modules, emission reductions in rice production, truck stop electrification, fertilizer rate reduction and wetlands restoration in addition to requirements for
REDD + projects nested within a
jurisdictional framework.