Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon ... - FAO

Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
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Is the area subject to ongoing in-migration, driving up
pressure on natural resources?
Does fuelwood demand for domestic use contribute to
pressure on forest ecosystems?
Is the community openly opposed to carbon trading and/or
specific investors?
£ Are there any active land disputes?
£ Is there a history of local government corruption?
£ Is there a history of illegal logging?
On government-owned lands:
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Is there a history of encroachment/illegal settlement on
public land?
Are farmers operating on government land without
recognized long-term land-use rights?
The more questions to which the answer is “yes”, the more challenging
it will be to successfully implement a forestry VCM project. It is
important to remember that the determining factor of a VCM project
is the generation of carbon credits. While it is all but certain that some
of the issues on the checklist above will arise, and indeed help give the
project additionality, if a developer has to address too many of them at
once the generation of carbon credits may be at risk. The result of the
site screening checklist, therefore, may be used to indicate the following
course of action:
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