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

Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
provided by German International Cooperation (GIZ) and the project
is registered under the CarbonFix Standard. The project is expected
to sequester about 400 000 tCO 2
e over about thirty years.
The land is wholly owned by the SFE, which allows the project clarity
over rights and tenure, crucial to generating carbon credits under the
VCM. However, with local involvement limited to part-time, seasonal
employment, the project may require quite intensive oversight by
the SFE and their German partners. Depending entirely on the sale
of carbon credits to finance project management entails a financial
risk. ARR projects that can also generate income from other forest
products or services are more stable in the long term.
For more information, visit the Viet Nam country page at www.
theredddesk.org and download the project brochure from www.
carbonfix.info/COB
2.5.2 Improved forest management (IFM)
• Are the current forest management practices unsustainable?
If there are transparent and reliable records of forest
management activities, and regular forest inventories, this
will be quite easy to answer. However, the absence of such
records, in itself, is an indicator of unsustainable practice.
• In what way are they unsustainable?
It is essential that a manager is able to readily identify what
current practices are unsustainable, in order to identify
potential improvements.
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