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Using LULUCF Carbon as a Tool for Rural Development

Using LULUCF Carbon as a Tool for Rural Development. Sara J. Scherr UNFCCC/SBSTA Workshop on Climate Change Mitigation Bonn, Germany – June, 2004. LULUCF is Essential to Climate Action. LULUCF accounts for 20%+ of total global carbon emissions (IPCC)

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Using LULUCF Carbon as a Tool for Rural Development

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  1. Using LULUCF Carbon as a Tool for Rural Development Sara J. Scherr UNFCCC/SBSTA Workshop on Climate Change Mitigation Bonn, Germany – June, 2004

  2. LULUCF is Essential to Climate Action • LULUCF accounts for 20%+ of total global carbon emissions (IPCC) • In low-income countries, land use & land use change account for most carbon emissions: Indonesia – 75% Cameroon – 80% • CDM one of many instruments needed to reverse these trends

  3. Integrating Climate Action with International Agreements UNFCCC CCD CBD Ramsar MDGs

  4. LULUCF: Restoring Carbon to Landscapes Above-Ground Time-Averaged and Total Soil Carbon (0-20 cm) for ASB sites in Brazil, Cameroon and Indonesia (Tomich et al. 2002)

  5. Invest in LULUCF to Achieve the MDGs • Cash income for consumption or investment • Improve agricultural & forestry technologies • Resources for community social investment • Conserve wild plants/animals critical for local • consumption or farm inputs • Rehabilitate critical ecosystem services • Mechanism to create partnerships

  6. Invest in LULUCF to Achieve the MEAs Convention to Combat Desertification(CCD) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Ramsar Convention

  7. DESIGNING PRO-POOR PROJECTS Ensure strong local participation Brand projects and environmentally and socially responsible Enhance the profitability and sustainability of land uses Ensure transparency in investor-community partnerships Reduce project marketing costs and risks Select the most suitable compensation mechanisms

  8. Ensuring Rigorous Climate Impacts for LULUCF Initiatives for rigorous project design on all criteria are already underway:* Climate Community Biodiversity Alliance* CINCS* ECCM Three Conventions Partnership Projects with co-benefits are more sustainable

  9. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS • 1) Expand thescale of LULUCF in the CDM, for global climate impact • 2) Expand the scope of activities allowed under the CDM • 3) Engage the rural development community when structuring internal trading schemes. • 4) Make LULUCF carbon strategies an integral part of national development plans • 5) Provide legal safeguards for communities and the environment • 6) Organize an international policy summit to explore synergies between the MEAs and the MDGs

  10. THE FOREST CLIMATEALLIANCE * Advocates for national policies to link action on climate, biodiversity, and the MDGs through diverse market instruments * Advocates internationally to link MEAs, UNFCCC, and the Millennium Development Goals * Supports institutions developing forest C projects with low-income producers * Links with the Katoomba Group’s ‘Ecosystem Marketplace’

  11. Scherr, S.J. and M. Inbar. 2004. Using LULUCF Carbon as a Tool for Rural Development: Policy Recommendations to Link International Action on Climate Change, Poverty and Biodiversity. Forest Trends. Washington, D.C. www.forest-trends.org

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