Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP) Design ...

Potential Risk
11. Carbon prices are too
low to maintain
incentives or carbon
prices become too high,
causing a land grab in
peatlands.
12. GHG monitoring
protocols are not
scientifically accepted
or are too expensive to
maintain in the absence
of KFCP support.
13. Local climate becomes
drier and/or increasingly
variable,
Potential Impact
If prices are too low, communities and local
government may refuse to maintain emission
reduction interventions after the KFCP
implementation period. If prices are too high,
powerful locals and outsiders with use influence to try
to gain control of peatlands to detriment of local
people.
Either would prevent participation in the international
REDD carbon market and the effect could extend to
all peatlands.
Fire risk management would become more difficult,
especially if variability were difficult to predict.
Assessment
L C R
Preliminary Mitigation Strategy
2 3 M If prices are too low, there is little that can be done other than
resorting to the voluntary market. If too high, government will
have to be vigilant to ensure that a land grab does not occur.
2 4 H System must be designed to be scientifically credible while
being relatively simple to maintain.
3 4 H Develop fire management system tailored to the level of
climatic risk seasonally and in multi-year cycles.
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