Will community monitoring assist in delivering just and equitable REDD+? We assessed whether local communities can effectively estimate carbon stocks in some of the worldâs most carbon rich forests, using simple field protocols, and we reviewed whether community monitoring exists in current REDD+ pilots. We obtained similar results for forest carbon when measured by communities and professional foresters in 289 vegetation plots in Southeast Asia. Most REDD+ monitoring schemes, however, contain no community involvement. To close the gulf between United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change texts on involving communities and field implementation realities, we propose greater embedding of community monitoring within national REDD+ pilot schemes, which we argue will lead to a more just REDD+.
Authors
Danielsen, Finn ; Adrian, Teis ; Brofeldt, Soren ; Van Noordwijk, Meine ; Poulsen, Michael K ; Rahayu, Subekti ; Rutishauser, Ervan ; Theilade, Ida ; Widayati, Atiek ; Ngo, The An ; Tran, Nguyen Bang ; Budiman, Arif ; Enghoff, Martin ; Jensen, Arne E. ; Kurniawan, Yuyun ; Li, Qiaohong ; Mingxu, Zhao ; Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich ; Prixa, Suoksompong ; Thoumtone, Vongvisouk ; Warta, Zulfira ; Burgess, Neil
Publication date
2014-03-28
