Will community monitoring assist in delivering just and equitable REDD+? We assessed whether local communities can effectively estimate carbon stocks in some of the world's most carbon rich forests, using simple field protocols, and we reviewed whether community monitoring exists in current REDD+ pilots. We obtained similar results for forest carbon when measured by communities and professional foresters in 289 vegetation plots in Southeast Asia. Most REDD+ monitoring schemes, however, contain no community involvement. To close the gulf between United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change texts on involving communities and field implementation realities, we propose greater embedding of community monitoring within national REDD+ pilot schemes, which we argue will lead to a more just REDD+.
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Publication year
2013
Authors
Danielsen, F.; Adrian, T.; Brofeldt, S.; van Noordwijk, M.; Poulsen, M.K.; Rahayu, S.; Rutishauser, E.; Theilade, I.; Widayati, A.; The An, N.; Nguyen Bang, T.; Budiman, A.; Enghoff, M.; Jensen, A.E.; Kurniawan, Y.; Li, Q.; Mingxu, Z.; Schmidt-Vogt, D.; Prixa, S.; Thoumtone, V.; Warta, Z.; Burgess, N.
Language
English
Keywords
biodiversity, climate change, communities, deforestation, forest carbon, governance, livelihoods, monitoring, ecosystem services
