The climate change debate has brought forests to the forefront of the
international agenda. Forests have acquired a new value as one of the planet’s
most important stores of carbon, thus helping to ensure that levels of
atmospheric carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas, are kept below
critical levels.
With all newly-appreciated values, new markets are not far
behind. Carbon markets allow forest owners to gain recognition, and financial
compensation, for the work they do to keep the forests in place, and to manage
them sustainably.
Since the 1990s the forestry voluntary carbon market (VCM) has
taken shape, though forest owners have generally not been the first to
understand its potential. It is a complex concept and there is a very real risk
that forest owners may surrender the potential benefits of this new market to
other, better informed actors. Small landowners and local communities in rural
areas of the Asia-Pacific region are at the greatest risk of losing out in this
new market.
These guidelines were developed to assist smallholders and
smallholder groups, community-based forest managers, non-governmental
organizations and local forestry officials to decide whether or not to undertake
a forestry voluntary carbon market project and, once a decision has been taken
to proceed, to provide guidance on how to design and implement the project.
Download the guidelines, Click here or visit http://www.fao.org/asiapacific for more information.
Knowledge for Development :
http://www.fao.org/asiapacific/rap/k4d/about/en/
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