Options for a National Framework for Benefit Distribution and Their Relation to Community-Based and National REDD+ Monitoring

Forests

Margaret Skutsch³  Esther Turnhout¹  Marjanneke J. Vijge⁴  Martin Herold⁶  Tjeerd Wits⁵  Jan Willem den Besten² 

[1] Department of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands; E-Mail:;IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands, 1081 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands; E-Mail:;Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Campus Morelia, CP 58190 Morelia, Mexico; E-Mail:;Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands; E-Mail:;Tjeerd Wits Consultancy, 1093 NA Amsterdam, The Netherlands; E-Mail:;Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands; E-Mail:

关键词: benefit sharing;    input-based distribution;    output based distribution;    equity;    community monitoring;    link to national MRV;   

DOI  :  10.3390/f5071596

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Monitoring is a central element in the implementation of national REDD+ and may be essential in providing the data needed to support benefit distribution. We discuss the options for benefit sharing systems in terms of technical feasibility and political acceptability in respect of equity considerations, and the kind of data that would be needed for the different options. We contrast output-based distribution systems, in which rewards are distributed according to performance measured in terms of carbon impacts, with input-based systems in which performance is measured in term of compliance with prescribed REDD+ activities. Output-based systems, which would require regular community carbon inventories to produce Tier 3 data locally, face various challenges particularly for the case of assessing avoided deforestation, and they may not be perceived as equitable. Input-based systems would require data on activities undertaken rather than change in stocks; this information could come from community-acquired data. We also consider how community monitored data could support national forest monitoring systems and the further development of national REDD+.

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