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Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits: Bottom-Up Approaches to Measurement and Policy Change

ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins

Location: 327, 3rd floor, Collegium Maius

As the debate on REDD evolves, a clear knowledge gap has persisted – what are the real opportunity costs to smallholder farmers for avoiding deforestation? Working at sites across the tropical forest margins, the ASB Partnership has produced widely-used research on carbon emissions and economic returns to land associated with land use change at sites in Indonesia, Peru, Philippines and Cameroon. The bottom-up analysis finds that economic returns of these land use changes are extremely low per tonne of CO2 emitted, helping to confirm that valuing standing forests for their carbon can drastically reduce emissions from deforestation and potentially improve the livelihoods of local communities. ASB is engaging with the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute on new projects to support REDD implementation, investigating which REDD methodology can best support implementation, and how national-level targets can translate into on-the-ground behaviour change.

Chair:
Dr. Peter Akong Minang, ASB Programme Associate

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14:30 – 14:50

What we’ve done so far: opportunity costs of avoided deforestation with sustainable benefits

Meine van Noordwijk and Sonya Dewi, ICRAF Southeast Asia

2.2 MB

14:50 – 14:55

Immediate questions for clarification

 

  

14.55 – 15:15

What we’re doing next: Introducing new initiatives to support implementation of REDD

Robin Matthews, Macaulay Institute

 388 KB

15:45 – 16:00

Moderated discussion

Peter Akong Minang, ASB

  
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
CIFOR advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. CIFOR is one of 15 centres within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).