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A climate policy initiative called ‘Reduced Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhancement of forest carbon stock in developing countries (REDD+) is under consideration by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
. This policy is aimed at national level reduction of forest emissions in developing countries, as measured against an agreed upon national reference emission level. Net emission reductions would be credited and sold to an international fund or carbon market. It was conceived originally as a mechanism to encourage countries with high rates of deforestation, such as Brazil and Indonesia, to curb large scale deforestation due to agricultural expansion and timber extraction. But its potential has also been seen in terms of rewarding indigenous people and local communities for improved management of their forests such that biomass levels remain stable or increase. Since REDD+ is performance-based, the incentive for carbon services provided by such communities will be directly dependent on the annual carbon increment. This paper examines the carbon sequestration potential of community-based forest management in four community forests in Nepal. The four community forests (CFs) selected are from different watersheds in three physiographic regions. Forest carbon pools were measured in two successive years using the standard ground based inventory techniques. The measurements indicate that these CFs (with a total area of 630 ha) had a stock of approximately 478,000 tonnes CO₂e at the end of 2009, and through the CF practices, are able to sequester an additional 4700 tCO₂e every year. Furthermore, it assesses different management practices that could affect the carbon sequestration
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As the global discourse on REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) continues, it is important for governments, civil society organizations, and forestry stakeholders at and below the national level to build their understanding of REDD+ policy and finance mechanisms
. This publication explores the advantages and disadvantages of different mechanisms that will be available to countries for making carbon payments to forest managers. It also gives details on the proposed finance mechanism being used as part of a REDD+ pilot project undertaken in three watersheds in the Hindu Kush Himalayas of Nepal
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Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has gained major attention in international climate negotiations
. Evolving discussions on REDD have brought forests to the forefront of both climate-change mitigation and adaptation. Among others, successful REDD programs require reliable, accurate, and cost-effective methods for measurement and monitoring of forest carbon storage. Despite the involvement of several academic research and development organizations in Nepal, common, reliable, and userfriendly forest carbon measurement methodologies are still lacking. ’Forest Carbon stock Measurement: Guidelines for measuring carbon stocks in community managed forests’ was prepared by the technical team of Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB) in consultation with the Project Management Unit-ICIMOD; international and national experts; and key stakeholders. It is a product of the REDD pilot project ‘Design and setting up of a governance and payment system for Nepal’s Community Forest Management under Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation’, an initiative implemented by the Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and Federation of Community Forest Users, Nepal (FECOFUN) with financial support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). The guidelines describe methods, procedures, and steps for measuring organic carbon stored by forest land-use systems. They introduce globally accepted equipment, instruments, methodologies, procedures, and standards for forest carbon measurement and offer a detailed recipe for using them more efficiently and effectively. In other words, blended methods and procedures are presented coherently to make them applicable to a wide range of eco-regions and management regimes. The guidelines offer guidance on defining participatory boundaries with the help of remote-sensing maps and tools, as well as a complete set of procedures on application of remote sensing, GIS, and ground inventory. They provide, in short, precise, accurate, reliable, and user-friendly methodologies for forest carbon measurement which are adapted to Nepal’s specificities
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