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The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

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drained due to the realization that areas of deep peatwere unsuitable for agriculture.Barriers due to prevailing practice: growing crops otherthan palm oil is not a common land use within the projectregion.Barriers to Alternative Scenario #4 (conservation in theabsence of carbon financing):especially when the land use is not profitable ascompared with the planned land use.Barriers due to prevailing practice: No project activity ofthis type is currently operational in the region.Technological barriers: there is little equipment availablefor enforcing forest protection, i.e., for hiring forestguards, monitoring illegal logging, extinguishing forestfires, etc.Institutional barriers: the conservation forest scenariofaces institutional barriers because governmentalplanning prevents alternative land uses from occurring,especially when a proposed land use like conservation isnot profitable as compared with the planned land use.Technological barriers: there is little equipment availablefor enforcing forest protection, i.e., additional funding isnot likely to become available to hire forest guards,monitor illegal logging, prevent forest fires, etc.Barriers to Alternative Scenario #5 (proposed projectactivity): Investment barriers: <strong>The</strong>re is currently no formal nationalor international capital market for this type of activity. Akey intent of the project is to demonstrate the viability ofharnessing carbon finance for the purpose ofstrengthening the case for conservation. Institutional barriers: <strong>The</strong> project activity facesinstitutional barriers because centralized governmentalplanning provides disincentive for alternative land uses,Sub-­‐step 2b. Elimination of land use scenarios that areprevented by the identified barriers<strong>The</strong> land use scenarios identified in Sub-­‐step 1a that areprevented by at least one of the barriers listed in Sub-­‐step 2ainclude:Scenario #2: Continuation of pre-­‐project land use(production forest)Scenario #3: Conversion to agricultureScenario #4: Conservation in the absence of carbonfinancingScenario #5: Conservation with carbon financing(proposed project activity)Thus the remaining plausible land use scenario is:Scenario #1: Conversion to oil palm plantations afterillegal logging activities extract valuable timberSub-­‐step 2c. Determination of baseline scenario (if allowed bythe barrier analysis)96

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