The Role of Sustainable Land Management for Climate ... - CAADP
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4. Policies and Strategies to Promote <strong>Climate</strong> Change Mitigation and<br />
Adaptation in SSA through SLM<br />
While elements <strong>of</strong> SLM have had some success in isolated settings in Africa, a range <strong>of</strong> policy,<br />
institutional, and knowledge barriers prevent larger uptake. In this section we discuss policies<br />
and strategies to promote climate change mitigation and adaption in sub-Saharan Africa through<br />
promoting sustainable land management. First we review existing policies and strategies, and<br />
the extent <strong>of</strong> their implementation. <strong>The</strong>n we consider opportunities and constraints to scaling up<br />
mitigation and adaptation using SLM approaches, and based on this, identify options to take<br />
advantage <strong>of</strong> the opportunities and overcome the constraints. <strong>The</strong> key messages are summarized<br />
at the beginning <strong>of</strong> each major subsection.<br />
4.1. Existing Policies and Strategies Related to <strong>Climate</strong> Change and SLM<br />
Key messages<br />
• <strong>The</strong>re are many policy frameworks, strategies, institutions and programs affecting<br />
opportunities and constraints to promote climate change mitigation and adaptation<br />
through SLM in SSA. Among the most potentially important are the CDM, the voluntary<br />
carbon market, climate mitigation and adaptation funds, the UNCCD, NEPAD/<strong>CAADP</strong>,<br />
TerrAfrica and regional, sub-regional and national policy processes linked to these. SLM<br />
can provide an integrative framework <strong>for</strong> the various policy conventions and available<br />
financing mechanisms.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> current use <strong>of</strong> these mechanisms to support SLM projects in SSA is very limited:<br />
o Only 10 af<strong>for</strong>estation or re<strong>for</strong>estation projects in SSA are in the CDM pipeline.<br />
o No <strong>of</strong>fsets are supplied to the CCX by SLM projects in SSA, and only about 0.2<br />
MtCO 2 e were <strong>of</strong>fset through other voluntary transactions involving land<br />
management in SSA in 2007 (less than 0.5% <strong>of</strong> global voluntary transactions).<br />
o Many carbon mitigation funds have been established, but most do not support<br />
AFOLU activities in SSA.<br />
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