The Role of Sustainable Land Management for Climate ... - CAADP

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• Promote increased coordination of efforts to address climate variability, climate change,
and land degradation and integration with key government strategies and processes,
including agricultural and environmental strategies.
• Expand investment in strengthening technical, organizational and human capacity
relevant to climate and land management issues in SSA.
• Address specific policy, institutional and other constraints to SLM and climate change
mitigation and adaptation at national and local level in the context of country strategic
investment frameworks (CSIFs).
4.3.1. Advocate improvements in the post-Kyoto agreement
In the post-Kyoto agreement, there are opportunities to substantially increase funding for SLM
activities related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, but realizing these opportunities
will require effective advocacy by stakeholders most concerned about achieving this. Ensuring
the continuation of the CDM will be essential, including improvements to expand its scope and
improve its accessibility to Africans. Three particularly important opportunities for this are to i)
expand eligibility for the CDM to include all include all activities that sequester carbon or reduce
emissions of GHGs, including REDD and AFOLU activities; ii) agree to national targets for
GHG levels of all countries, including developing countries, and use a full GHG national
accounting approach to credit reductions relative to baselines; and iii) increase funding for
adaptation measures.
Expand eligibility for the CDM to include REDD and AFOLU activities
Making all activities that sequester carbon or reduce GHG emissions eligible for the
CDM, including REDD and AFOLU activities, would dramatically increase the potential of the
CDM to help promote SLM for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Africa and other
developing regions. There has already been substantial progress towards developing a scheme
for REDD payments, with many proposals already circulated and being discussed by major
stakeholders. It is critical that the many challenges and constraints that could undermine the
effectiveness of such payments or cause unintended negative consequences are adequately
considered and addressed, and not allowed to undermine the potential of the approach. Potential
problems of leakages and negative impacts on poor and vulnerable populations are particularly
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