Towards socially and environmentally friendly carbon: learning from pilot projects in Bolivia and Brazil
2003
May, P.H. | Boyd, E. | Chang, M. | Veiga, F.
The Kyoto Protocol and its flexibility mechanisms triggered a global debate on the valuation of forests as sources of environmental services important to economic growth and development. Pilot climate mitigation projects in developing nations have helped us understand how use of forests and forest ecosystems can generate global and local co-benefits. A number of "on the ground" carbon sequestration intiatives focus on conservation and restoration of degraded lands, despite initial exclusion of such efforts from the Kyoto Protocol. Lessons learned from these intiatives suggest directions for broader implementation of the climate argument. This paper argues that critical gaps remain in the understanding of social and environmental incentives and impacts at the interface between people, forests and carbon, fundamental to successful project design, implementation and outcomes. The authors seek to understand what incentives are made available to local communities through existing carbon sequestration schemes and what incentives are for executors to involve local people more as partners or beneficiaries. Drawing on research from pilot projects in two Latin American countries, the authors propose generic project criteria for socially and environmentally "friendly" carbon project design
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