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What are the barriers and opportunities to conditional incentives in REDD+ projects?
William D. Sunderlin, Andini Desita Ekaputri, Amy Duchelle, Erin Sills, Demetrius Kweka
SBSTA side event on “REDD+ performance and verification:
Insights from CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study (GCS)”
Bonn, Germany, June 5, 2013
Outline
• Global Comparative Study on REDD+
• Proponent challenges survey
• Characterization of projects
• Barriers
• Opportunities
• Some thoughts
Global Comparative Study on REDD+
Module 2 regions, countries, projects
Proponent Challenges Survey
• In-depth survey interview of 23 proponent organizations to ask:
What are the barriers and opportunities to implementation of REDD+ projects in terms of attaining the 3Es and co-benefits?
• Research question in this presentation:
What are the barriers and opportunities to move to conditional REDD+ incentives in REDD+ projects?
Proponent Challenges Survey
1. Characterization of projects:
– Sources of pressure on forests
– Progress in implementation of interventions
– Ranking of importance of interventions
2. Barriers to implementation:
– Most challenging factors (general)
– Challenges in effectively sequestering forest carbon
3. Opportunities:
– Solutions toward effective sequestration
Definition of conditional incentives
• Includes but is not equivalent to what people commonly consider to be "PES"
• Broad definition that includes:
monetary and in-kind rewards
Household and village level rewards
Pre-paid and paid upon delivery
1. Characterization: Main sources of pressure
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Large‐scale ranching
Large‐scale timber harvest (illegal)
Large‐scale timber harvest (legal)
Large‐scale agriculture
Other
Commercial fuelwood/charcoal collection
Large‐scale plantations
Non-wood forest products harvesting
Mining
Small‐scale legal timber harvest
Small or medium ranchers
Subsistence fuelwood/charcoal collection
Forest fire
Small‐scale frontier agriculture (colonists)
Small‐scale illegal timber harvest
Small‐scale traditional agriculture (local inhabitants)
n= 148 responses
1. Characterization: Implementation of interventions
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0 5 10 15 20 25
Others
Tenure Clarification
Env Education
Liv Enhance - Cond
Liv Enhance - Non Cond
Forest Enhancement
Forest Access Restriction
Project sites (n=23)
Begun Not yet begun Will not be done
1. Characterization: Among the interventions that have begun or are planned, which is potentially the most important for effectively reducing
deforestation and forest degradation at your site?
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Unknown
Forest enhancements
Livelihood enhancements (non-conditional)
Forest access restrictions
Tenure clarification
Others
Livelihood enhancements (conditional)
Project sites (n=23)
1. Characterization: Among the interventions that have begun or are planned, which is potentially the most important for effectively reducing
deforestation and forest degradation at your site?
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0 2 4 6 8 10
Unknown
Forest enhancements
Livelihood enhancements (non-conditional)
Forest access restrictions and conversion
Tenure clarification
Others
Livelihood enhancements (conditional)
Project sites (n=23)
BRAZIL
CAMEROON
INDONESIA
PERU
TANZANIA
VIETNAM
2. Ranking of ten most challenging of 62 factors
Factor Score
Governance: tenure conditions (national) 86
National policy: tenure & land use 83
International policy: REDD+ (economic) 83
Governance: tenure cond. (reg./local) 80
National policy: REDD+ (technical) 79
National policy: REDD+ (economic) 79
Political economy: BAU interests 78
National policy: REDD+ (legal) 78
National policy: forest 77
Governance: capacity 77
2. Which one of 62 factors has been the most challenging in implementing your REDD+ project?
6 26%
6 26% 1
5%
3 13%
2 9%
3 13%
1 4%
1 4%
Project sites (n=23)
Tenure policy and conditions
Disadvantegous economicsof REDD+
International policy
Issues related to localstakeholders
National agricultural andforestry policies
National and sub-nationalREDD+ policy
Proponent organizationdeficiencies
Unknown
2. Barriers: What are the main challenges you have experienced in designing and implementing a project that will effectively
sequester or reduce emissions of forest carbon?
• Engagement with the community
• Collaboration with government institutions
• Weak local governance
• Tenure
• Inadequacy of REDD+ financing
• Creation of alternative income sources
• Leakage
2. Opportunities: What solutions do you envision in designing and implementing a project that will effectively sequester or
reduce emissions of forest carbon?
• Improved governance and government capacity
• Improved engagement with local community
• Tenure intervention
• Intensive/sustainable agriculture
• Community forest management
• Intervene to change policy
• Increase area to overcome leakage
• Support low-carbon development planning
• Devise improved financial incentives
Thoughts on barriers and opportunities
• Tendency is to view REDD+ as wholly focused on one intervention: conditional incentives
• In fact, conditional incentives in REDD+ are preceded by, and functionally linked to, other interventions
• This hybrid arrangement has allowed projects to proceed in spite of inhospitable REDD+ policy and economic conditions
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