Lessons From Payments For Ecosystem Services For Redd Benefit Sharing Mechanisms

Author : Lasse Loft,Pham Thu Thuy,Cecilia Luttrell
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lessons from Payments for Ecosystem Services for REDD+ Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms by Lasse Loft,Pham Thu Thuy,Cecilia Luttrell Pdf

Where benefits and costs accrue at different scales, financial intermediaries are needed to facilitate relations between global-scale buyers and local-scale providers of carbon sequestration and storage. These intermediaries can help to collect and distribute payments and to promote the scheme to potential beneficiaries. The benefits distributed should compensate for the transaction, opportunity and implementation costs incurred by stakeholders for providing ecosystem services. Therefore, calculating the costs and understanding who incurs them are essential for benefit sharing. Targeting benefits according to a set of criteria that match the objectives of the specific mechanism increases the mechanism’s efficiency. As the level of performance-based payments may not be able to compete with the opportunity costs of highly profitable land uses, performance-related benefit-sharing mechanisms should be focused on areas with moderate opportunity costs. Benefits should be divided into upfront payments to cover startup costs and to give an initial incentive for participation, and payments upon delivery of ecosystem services to ensure adherence to conditionality.

Author : Lasse Loft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066544746

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Lessons from Payments for Ecosystem Services for REDD+ Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms by Lasse Loft Pdf

Author : Ivan Bond
Publisher : IIED
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biotic communities
ISBN : 9781843697428

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Incentives to Sustain Forest Ecosystem Services by Ivan Bond Pdf

The Government of Norway, through its International Climate and Forest Initiative, will allocate up to NOK3 billion (approximately US $430 million) a year between 2009 and 2012 to mitigate greenhouse gases produced by land-use change. An assessment of the utility of payments for ecosystem services as a tool for REDD was commissioned by the Norwegian Minister for the Environment and International Development to inform the International Climate and Forest Initiative. This document represents a summary of ten papers which made up the assessment."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Lasse Loft,Maria Fernanda Gebara,Grace Y. Wong
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786023870370

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The experience of ecological fiscal transfers: Lessons for REDD+ benefit sharing by Lasse Loft,Maria Fernanda Gebara,Grace Y. Wong Pdf

In many countries, the state owns or manages forests in the national interests of economic development, ecosystem service provision or biodiversity conservation. A national approach to reducing deforestation and forest degradation and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+) will thus most likely involve governmental entities at different governance levels from central to local. Sub-national governments that implement REDD+ activities will generate carbon ecosystem services and potentially other co-benefits, such as biodiversity conservation, and in the process incur implementation and opportunity costs for these actions. This occasional paper analyses the literature on ecological fiscal transfers (EFTs), with a focus on experiences in Brazil and Portugal, to draw lessons for how policy instruments for intergovernmental transfers can be designed in a national REDD+ benefit-sharing system. EFTs can be an effective policy instrument for improving revenue adequacy and fiscal equalization across a country. They facilitate financial allocations based on a sub-national government’s environmental performance, and could also partly compensate the costs of REDD+ implementation. We find that intergovernmental EFTs targeting sub-national public actors can be an important element of policy mix for REDD+ benefit sharing, particularly in a decentralized governance system, as decisions on forest and land use are being made at sub-national levels. Given the increasing focus and interest on jurisdictional REDD+, EFTs may have a role in filling the shortfall of revenues for REDD+ readiness and for implementing enabling actions related to forest governance. If EFTs are to have efficient and equitable outcomes, however, they will require strong information-sharing and transparency systems on environmental indicators and performance, and the disbursement and spending of EFT funds across all levels

Author : Maria Fernanda Gebara,Luiza Muccillo,Peter May,Claudia Vitel,Lasse Loft,Angelo Santos
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lessons from local environmental funds for REDD+ benefit sharing with indigenous people in Brazil by Maria Fernanda Gebara,Luiza Muccillo,Peter May,Claudia Vitel,Lasse Loft,Angelo Santos Pdf

Key lessons While the constitutional rights (e.g. property rights) of indigenous peoples (IP) are strong in Brazil and may help to overcome their vulnerability, they are rarely enforceable and do not offer sufficient safeguards.Informed consultation and a structured free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) process that considers cultural issues are fundamental to ensuring acceptance and consent by IP.Local environmental funds can be a tool for increasing autonomy and decentralization while sharing benefits with IP and financing long-term and specific demands that can change over time.Safeguard strategies implemented by the Amazon Fund to avoid conflicts of interest may result in restrictions on the participation of IP, having implications related to the legitimacy of decision-making in the distribution of benefits.The absence of timely financial flows to meet IP needs may be a considerable risk since it can encourage environmentally damaging activities.Relying on the voluntary market may be risky for IP initiatives because of market instability and possible lack of funding.

Author : Pham Thu Thuy,Maria Brockhaus,Grace Wong,Le Ngoc Dung,Januarti Sinarra Tjajadi,Lasse Loft,Cecilia Luttrell,Samuel Assembe Mvondo
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Approaches to benefit sharing by Pham Thu Thuy,Maria Brockhaus,Grace Wong,Le Ngoc Dung,Januarti Sinarra Tjajadi,Lasse Loft,Cecilia Luttrell,Samuel Assembe Mvondo Pdf

The issue of REDD+ benefit sharing has captured the attention of policymakers and local communities because the success of REDD+ will depend greatly on the design and implementation of its benefit?sharing mechanism. Despite a large body of literature on potential benefit?sharing mechanisms for REDD+, the field has lacked global comparative analyses of national REDD+ policies and of the political?economic influences that can either enable or impede the mechanisms. Similarly, relatively few studies have investigated the political?economic principles underlying existing benefit?sharing policies and approaches. This working paper builds on a study of REDD+ policies in 13 countries to provide a global overview and up?to?date profile of benefit?sharing mechanisms for REDD+ and of the political?economic factors affecting their design and setting. Five types of benefit?sharing models relevant to REDD+ and natural resource management are used to create an organising framework for identifying what does and does not work and to examine the structure of rights under REDD+. The authors also consider the mechanisms in light of five prominent discourses on the question of who should benefit from REDD+ and, by viewing REDD+ through a 3E (effectiveness, efficiency, equity) lens, map out some of the associated risks for REDD+ outcomes. Existing benefit?sharing models and REDD+ projects have generated initial lessons for building REDD+ benefit?sharing mechanisms. However, the relevant policies in the 13 countries studied could lead to carbon ineffectiveness, cost inefficiency and inequity because of weak linkages to performance or results, unclear tenure and carbon rights, under?representation of certain actors, technical and financial issues related to the scope and scale of REDD+, potential elite capture and the possible negative side effects of the decentralisation of authority. Furthermore, the enabling factors for achieving 3E benefit?sharing mechanisms are largely absent from the study countries. Whether REDD+ can catalyse the necessary changes will depend in part on how the costs and benefits of REDD+ are shared, and whether the benefits are sufficient to affect a shift in entrenched behaviour and policies at all levels of government. The successful design and implementation of benefit?sharing mechanisms – and hence the legitimacy and acceptance of REDD+ – depend on having clear objectives, procedural equity and an inclusive process and on engaging in a rigorous analysis of the options for benefit sharing and their potential effects on beneficiaries and climate mitigation efforts.

Author : Emily Fripp
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9786021504574

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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) by Emily Fripp Pdf

One of the aims of the CoLUPSIA project is to explore options for establishing payments for ecosystem services (PES) within the two districts where the project is working: Seram and Kapuas Hulu. These guidelines were prepared to support the CoLUPSIA team in completing this assessment and have since been revised to incorporate some findings from the field assessments.

Author : Wong, G.,Pham, T.T.,Valencia, I.,Luttrell, C.,Larson, A.M.,Yang, A.,Hasan, A.,Kovacevic, M.,Moeliono, M.,Dwisatrio, B.,Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.,
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Designing REDD+ benefit-sharing mechanisms: From policy to practice by Wong, G.,Pham, T.T.,Valencia, I.,Luttrell, C.,Larson, A.M.,Yang, A.,Hasan, A.,Kovacevic, M.,Moeliono, M.,Dwisatrio, B.,Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Pdf

Author : Arturo Balderas Torres,Margaret McCall Skutsch
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789968938662

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Challenges for pro-poor benefit sharing schemes in the implementation of REDD+ in Mexico by Arturo Balderas Torres,Margaret McCall Skutsch Pdf

Many environmental and social benefits will result from implementing activities to tackle emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and to promote the conservation of forest carbon stocks, as well as from the sustainable management of forests and carbon enhancements in developing countries (REDD+). Benefit sharing in REDD+ refers to the ways in which the financial benefits resulting from these activities will be distributed among different local stakeholders within a country. It is necessary to create ad hoc institutional frameworks and design equitable and transparent benefit sharing schemes such that the rewards may be distributed among all the many stakeholders within the country who have in some way participated in the achievements. This report presents a summary of the gaps and problems in the design of benefit sharing schemes, focusing particularly on the need to develop pro-poor schemes, and includes the Forest Dialogues' main recommendations and suggestions. An assessment of both the challenges and the potential paths for implementation is included in the example provided by the case of implementation of REDD+ in Mexico.

Author : D. Huberman
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : 9782831712215

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A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services by D. Huberman Pdf

Author : Anastasia L Yang,Grace Wong,Lasse Loft
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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What can REDD+ Benefit Sharing Mechanisms learn from the European Rural Development Policy? by Anastasia L Yang,Grace Wong,Lasse Loft Pdf

Author : Luca Tacconi,Sango Mahanty,Helen Suich
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849806015

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Payments for Environmental Services, Forest Conservation and Climate Change by Luca Tacconi,Sango Mahanty,Helen Suich Pdf

This resourceful book draws on several case studies to derive implications for the design of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) schemes that are very relevant to current climate change negotiations and the implementation of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) schemes at the national level. With its focus on livelihoods, the book also provides important lessons that are relevant to the design of PES schemes focusing on environmental services other than carbon conservation. Drawing practical lessons for the design of activities aimed at reducing deforestation and forest degradation while benefiting rural people, this book will appeal to academics, practitioners and students involved in the fields of environment and natural resource management, forestry and development studies. This insightful study is accessible also to non-experts in presenting the key issues faced in avoiding deforestation and benefiting livelihoods.

Author : Grace Wong,Arild Angelsen,Maria Brockhaus,Rachel Carmenta,Amy Duchelle,Stephen Leonard,Cecilia Luttrell,Christopher Martius,Sven Wunder
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Results-based payments for REDD+: Lessons on finance, performance, and non-carbon benefits by Grace Wong,Arild Angelsen,Maria Brockhaus,Rachel Carmenta,Amy Duchelle,Stephen Leonard,Cecilia Luttrell,Christopher Martius,Sven Wunder Pdf

Author : Shintia Dian Arwida,Sofi Mardiah,Cecilia Luttrell
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lessons for REDD+ benefit-sharing mechanisms from anti-corruption measures in Indonesia by Shintia Dian Arwida,Sofi Mardiah,Cecilia Luttrell Pdf

Author : Arild Angelsen
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9786028693035

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Realising REDD+ by Arild Angelsen Pdf

REDD+ must be transformational. REDD+ requires broad institutional and governance reforms, such as tenure, decentralisation, and corruption control. These reforms will enable departures from business as usual, and involve communities and forest users in making and implementing policies that a ect them. Policies must go beyond forestry. REDD+ strategies must include policies outside the forestry sector narrowly de ned, such as agriculture and energy, and better coordinate across sectors to deal with non-forest drivers of deforestation and degradation. Performance-based payments are key, yet limited. Payments based on performance directly incentivise and compensate forest owners and users. But schemes such as payments for environmental services (PES) depend on conditions, such as secure tenure, solid carbon data and transparent governance, that are often lacking and take time to change. This constraint reinforces the need for broad institutional and policy reforms. We must learn from the past. Many approaches to REDD+ now being considered are similar to previous e orts to conserve and better manage forests, often with limited success. Taking on board lessons learned from past experience will improve the prospects of REDD+ e ectiveness. National circumstances and uncertainty must be factored in. Di erent country contexts will create a variety of REDD+ models with di erent institutional and policy mixes. Uncertainties about the shape of the future global REDD+ system, national readiness and political consensus require  exibility and a phased approach to REDD+ implementation.