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

Issues relating to additionality, leakage, and permanence:
— Additionality: ensuring that emission reductions from REDD activities are additional to
those that would have otherwise occurred;
— Leakage: ensuring that emission reductions in one area are not offset by increases in
another area; and
— Permanence: ensuring that emission reductions are long term or permanent.
2.3.1 The KFCP as a REDD Demonstration Activity
The KFCP forms part of the international response to the call for action on REDD. The KFCP aims to
trial approaches and provide lessons learned from on the ground REDD activities in Kalimantan to
inform international negotiations on REDD. The KFCP is being designed at a time when the
international and national frameworks for REDD are still under development.
The KFCP‘s objective is to demonstrate a credible, equitable, and effective approach to reducing
emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, including from the degradation of peatlands,
which can inform a post-2012 global climate change agreement. As part of this, the KFCP aims to
trial a range of approaches to show how investment in REDD can achieve emission reductions while
providing forest-dependent communities with livelihoods and promoting sustainable resource
management. It will also contribute to developing governance, enforcement, and regulatory
frameworks to support REDD. Lessons learned from the KFCP will help demonstrate how REDD can
be part of a post-2012 global climate change agreement and how the approaches and methodologies
tested in Central Kalimantan can be scaled up or replicated in other parts of Indonesia.
Under the KFCP, emissions from peat soils will also be taken into account as part of the accounting
and monitoring of forest carbon stocks. Measurement of peat soil emissions will allow for aggregation
or disaggregation with total emissions from forest trees and vegetation. This approach can help
contribute to further international knowledge for REDD accounting and monitoring and the
sustainable management of peat forest carbon stocks. In doing so, it is noted that there is currently no
international agreement about whether, or how, to incorporate actions to reduce emissions from
deforested and degraded peatland in a post-2012 climate change agreement, and whether it would be
incorporated into future action on REDD.
2.3.2 REDD Activities – The Basic Concept
The basic elements of an REDD activity may include:
1. An assessment of the forest carbon contained in a defined area;
2. An agreed estimate of the rate of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation for the
defined area that would have occurred in the absence of REDD interventions (shown as an
indicative reference emissions level in Figure 1);
3. Identification of characteristics of chosen site (e.g., governance and land use arrangements,
community interests, etc.) and building of enabling conditions for REDD activity (e.g., payment
mechanisms, etc.);
4. Identification of interventions to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
(e.g., address drivers of deforestation, manage risks posed by natural hazards, etc.)
and development of contractual arrangements for their implementation;
5. Intervention implementation;
6. Ongoing monitoring and measurement of changes in emissions against the reference emissions
level, using agreed methodologies and data sets;
7. Report of emissions reductions achieved and submitted for independent verification; and
8. Payments to relevant actors based either directly (as shown by the potential income in Figure 1,
which could be generated by carbon credits or aid funding), or indirectly, on their relative
contribution to emissions reductions.
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