What is the nested REDD approach about?

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What is nested approach about? How many proposals there are for REDD? Is there any particular good resource available?

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+2 #2 Theo Jones 2010-01-11 11:11

REDD - REduce Deforestation and Degradation.

A strategy for paying money to nations with extensive forest resources.

It's probably the single most important aspect of reducing ecosystem damage. As the forests are the lungs of the planet, any degradation of them, and their CO2 processing capability is a serious problem, which makes other emissions even worse.

A National approach treats the unit to be measured as the entire country - measuring deforestation not against particular forests, but against the country as a whole. So payments would be made if the country retains a specific level of forestation. Weakness is - they could be lopping down ancient rainforest and throwing up plantations.

A Sub-National approach highlights specific areas of interest, and protects those - it encourages the participating country to protect the right things, rather than play numbers.

A Nested approach is a soft start system - allowing countries to start with a Sub National strategy, and as they improve their ability to monitor and protect, extend to a national scale.

edit: found a brilliant PDF document: Decoding REDD

 
 
+2 #1 David Diaz 2010-03-23 14:21

A good resource on the whole range of policies that have been proposed is the Global Canopy Programme's Little REDD Book. It was updated recently and contains a near-exhaustive survey of government and NGO proposals. It is available in English, Bahasa Indonesia, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Here is what the Little REDD Book has to say about the "nested approach":

The “Nested Approach” initially put forward by CATIE and the German Emissions Trading Association BVEK aims to combine the respective advantages of project- and national-level accounting and crediting mechanisms. The approach supports national-level GHG accounting, but allows the crediting of the GHG reductions achieved by individual projects to be credited.

Project level emission reductions are to be calculated conservatively and any credits issued for projects deducted from any national level credits. Any project claiming credits has to be supported by the respective REDD country, which may decide to claim a share of the project credits for a leakage and permanence buffer. Projects may also be authorised in countries that do not yet qualify for national accounting systems.

After its initial release the Nested Approach has since been supported by a number of organisations and Latin American countries (including Chile, Peru, and Panama on behalf of Costa Rica, el Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama).