Guide on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

engage in deforestation and degradation.How can stakeholders - like indigenouspeoples and forest dwellers - be involvedin all phases of designing, implementing,monitoring and benefiting from REDD?Will FPIC of indigenous peoples beobtained when REDD is going to beimplemented in their forests?• Baseline data – What are themethodologies which will be used toestablish baseline data on forest coverand stored carbon? What are the cutoffdates for the baseline data? Theestablishment of this should use bothsatellite technologies as well as on-thegrounddata gathering and monitoring.What verification methods should beSome Issues on REDD• Funding mechanisms• Beneficiaries, compensationand participation• Baseline data• Drivers and causes ofdeforestation• Methodologies used inverifying, monitoring,accounting emissionsreductions and creditingapproaches• Scale• Definition of forests and offorest degradation• Role of the UNDRIPLEAKAGE - unwantedloss, or leak, of somethingwhich escapes from itsproper location, e.g.,deforestation moving fromone area to another.PERMANENCE - theproperty of being ableto exist for an indefiniteduration, e.g., needto ensure that foreststhat have contributedto emissions reductionremain intact over time.developed? Since degradation is part of REDD, what methodologiesshould be used to measure degradation?• Drivers and causes of deforestation – Who will determine the driversof deforestation and degradation? Since some literature have identifiedslash-and-burn farming as a driver of deforestation, what will be theimplications of this on traditional forest management practices ofindigenous peoples such as swiddening? Logging corporations, biofuelplantations and other monocrop plantations, as well as extractiveindustries (mineral, gas and oil extraction), are drivers of deforestation- how will these be addressed in thecontext of REDD?• Methodologies used inverifying, monitoring, accountingemissions reductions and creditingapproaches – How do you monitor,verify and account for the carboncontent and contributions of emissionsreductions of forests? Who will dothese processes? What capacitiesshould be built at the global, nationaland local levels? What will be the costsinvolved and who will bear the costs?On the national-level creditingapproach, issues include difficultyin characterizing emissions fromdeforestation and degradation,PART V: REDD/REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples 93