Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

village, the process of public consultation is
normally participatory and interactive and
these village meetings are self organised
and facilitated to address local issues for
which agendas are set up by the forest users
themselves. However, the consultation
meetings which are organised by the
ministries and departments are quite formal,
rituals and non participatory, where the
agendas are set without consulting
participants particularly representatives of
local communities…”
2.3. Enhancement of carbon in
existing (degraded) forests
To the extent that some carbon sequestration
activities are also included under the REDD
scheme, as part of “REDD+” proposals (such as
enhancing existing degraded forests), then the
barriers and opportunities are as indicated above
for REDD. REDD+ would clearly be much more
in the interest of existing community forest users
in Nepal, as it would include them in the REDD
regime and would cover a wider range of the
ecosystem services they provide.
*
These criteria and their consequences for REDD activities are currently under discussion. At
this point, it is not clear if and under what conditions these criteria would be included in a
future REDD-regime. We include them here as potential institutional constraints
– in the sense of constraints due to the “rules of the game”
– as they are important aspects to consider in the design of the future REDD-regime.
*
This is the definition associated with the CDM, the definition for additionality under REDD is
not yet decided.
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