'Forests and carbon: The impacts of local REDD+ initiatives

Gabriela Simonet, Amy Duchelle, Astrid B. Bos, Julie Subervie, Sven Wunder and Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo
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Gabriela Simonet: CEE-M - Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier - FRE2010 - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
Amy Duchelle: CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]
Astrid B. Bos: CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]
Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo: CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]

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Abstract: • Only a few studies assess the impacts of local REDD+ initiatives on forests, due to the financial, methodological, data and political challenges of implementing rigorous impact evaluations. • Local REDD+ projects and programmes frequently include a mix of interventions, i.e., incentives, disincentives and enabling measures. Disincentives are used to reduce deforestation, and incentives – either conditional on results or not – are used to help minimise the trade-offs between carbon and well-being outcomes. • The scarce evidence that is available on local REDD+ outcomes shows modestly encouraging results for forest conservation and carbon stock enhancement. Three projects using conditional incentives showed positive results for forests, through reducing the negative impacts of smallholder agriculture and firewood collection.

Date: 2018
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Published in Martius, Christopher; De Sy, Veronique; Duchelle, Amy E.; Larson, Anne M.; Thu Thuy,Pham. Transforming REDD+: Lessons and new directions, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), 2018, 978-602-387-079-0

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