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Comment on Can adaptation be a hook for local engagement in REDD+? by Peter Branney

Peter Branney — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:22:10 +0000

Will
I thought this was a useful contribution and it confirms our experiences from Nepal where community based adaptation planning and implementation via community forestry groups is making far more progress compared with the REDD+ and CC mitigation efforts. Even so – I feel that linking adaptation directly with mitigation on the ground is likely to be the most effective approach. In some situations in the forest sector the same activity contributes to both adaptation and mitigation e.g. controlling forest fires, planting trees for soil conservation/soil erosion control. Unfortunately REDD+ as it’s generally being pursued has got too bogged down in the formal international processes (at least UN-REDD and FCPF) whereas in the meantime forestry groups have been seen as a reliable vehicle for adaptation support because they are relatively robust and well-governed and can deliver the actions needed to enhance adaptation (in the Nepal contact at least – although I’m finding this is also true in more recent work in NE India)

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Comment on Can adaptation be a hook for local engagement in REDD+? by seven spoons

seven spoons — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:44:33 +0000

Thanks Will for the good blog!
In response to the question posed: does emphasizing the local benefits of adaptation make REDD+ more attractive to local communities, I would suggest the following. At least in the Asia Pacific region, one of the most important determinants of whether the localized environmental and other benefits offer sufficient incentives for local communities is determined in large part by issues of tenure. Land tenure and access rights are a fundamental consideration in the degree to which communities will make long-term investments and more importantly forego short-term gains (ie. land conversion to agriculture and other drivers of deforestation). I suspect that where tenure and access rights are secure, then benefits accruing from adaptation may play an important role in gaining buy-in in global climate change activities. Where tenure is insecure (most of this region), it may be a hard sell.
Cheers,
Regan Suzuki

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Comment on The future of forests is not in The Future We Want by Kay Haw

Kay Haw — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:03:23 +0000

Reblogged this on Woodland Matters.

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Comment on The future of forests is not in The Future We Want by Jeff Golden

Jeff Golden — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:11:42 +0000

This is a really important piece, a vital example of “talk to walk” ratios that are too little, too late. Thank you, Sarah, for surfacing a story that’s not getting enough attention