R&D Bottom Up for REDD+
- 1. R& D Research & Development Bottom Up for REDD + CO2 Capture and Storage @ community landscape level Where you work means Who you work with Where: Forests Agro-forests landscapes Agricultural Who: in each of these organizations land use systems
- 2. Oaxaca, Mexico SAO - O axacan E nvironmental S ervices Where- type of landscape & vegetation 16 community forests + 22 shade coffee producing units Who – organizations SAO 2 Unions Forest Ejidos Indigenous Muncipality 3 ejidos Federation Coffee producing cooperatives
- 3. “ Translation” to local understanding 1- What is CO 2 ? - Translate abstract to the concrete. (5 pools) - Providing a service not a good - Why should they be interested, who is buying? 2 - What does capture & storage mean? 3- Translate into: (most important) - Changes in cultural/management practices (collective/indiv) - Changes in forest use (consumptive) What you have to stop doing/taking? (firewood) What new things you have to do? (fire prevention)
- 4. Trade off analysis - Self evaluation They calculate the costs of these changes: - subsistence sphere - existing market relations (goods) - social infrastructure sphere $$$$ They weigh costs vs. payments (trade offs) They decide if its worth it????
- 5. Management = rights & responsibilities Translate Upload Participatory Community/local management across landscapes or territory (learn and enforce) LUCUC - technical measurement instrument for CO 2 storage * Recalculate the costs to the community
- 6. Benefits Distribution = legitimacy They (who) decide what they want to do with the funds, how and where: (legitimacy is the guarantee for longevity) - Collective funds: social spending - In-kind development assistance (CBF) Social infrastructure - Household level dividends - Transparency - (communication)
- 7. Negotiation Whoever negotiates must represent the interests and proposals of the membership And have the technical capacity to engage with ‘buyers.’ Communication on changes w/ membership
- 8. Monitoring and Verification $$$$ Up to now, communities still have a marginal gain from price paid. Clincher – Who monitors ??? and where does the funding come from??? * Renegotiations- communities can
- 9. Costs of R & D Bottom Up Bottom up for buy-in …… Long term guarantee for CO 2 storage Costs: to organizations Field work and consensus building mtgs Producing people’s time (compensation) Travel, shelter and food for meetings Training on technical issues Transformation & translation of key documents Communications (radio, brochures, manuals)