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

6.0 RISK MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
The KFCP is designed as a demonstration activity to develop sustainable approaches to reducing
GHG emissions from peat swamp forests that will be widely adopted and scaled up in Indonesia.
Achieving sustainability will require managing risk related to each of the four components and KFCP
management, as listed below (see Risk Matrix in Attachment 11). Development benefits and cobenefits
must be sustainable and REDD-related learning must be institutionalised in order to be
sustained. Adoption of REDD as part of a post-2012 agreement on climate change make the
sustainability if KFCP activities much more likely.
KFCP Risks by Component
Component 1: Reduction of GHG Emissions
Interventions are not effective in achieving expected levels of emissions reductions.
Land disputes or uncertainty over land classification interferes with implementation.
Community does not support/engage, due to failure to address social and economic needs of
communities as part of a REDD system.
Communities and/or implementation partners have insufficient capacity to undertake
rehabilitation interventions at the required scale.
Climate becomes drier and/or increasingly variable, making fire risk management more
difficult.
Component 2: Measuring and Monitoring GHG Emissions
GHG monitoring protocols are not scientifically accepted.
GHG monitoring is too expensive to sustain without external support.
Component 3: Developing REDD Payment Mechanisms
UNFCCC meetings make limited progress on, or provide little support for, the inclusion of
REDD in a post-2012 framework to address climate change.
Parts of Block E are designated as a protected area, raising questions about additionality.
Failure to accept proposed payment mechanisms by communities and various levels of
government.
Carbon prices are too low to maintain incentives or carbon prices become too high, causing a
land grab in peatlands.
Component 4: Developing Readiness and Capacity of Local Government
Inconsistent or conflicting policies and/or lack of coordination among levels of government.
KFCP Management
Inability to meet $100 million funding target through raising additional funds. Human and
financial resources at the field level prove to be insufficient to implement the KFCP as
designed, particularly in terms of coordinating the activities of implementing, research, and
supporting partners.
Lack of capacity to implement interventions at a large scale to international standards.
KFCP‘s diverse activities cannot be comprehensively integrated, leading to failures in
communication, knowledge capture, and achievement of some intended results.
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