A pilot by ANSAB, ICIMOD and FECOFUN, with funding from NORAD, that paid communities for the carbon their forests store, through Nepal’s first Forest Carbon Trust Fund.
About the project
Climate change is real and is occurring at an alarming rate. Currently, deforestation alone accounts for approximately 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions, a phenomenon which could be curbed quickly by taking appropriate actions. Forests have proven to be both carbon source and sink depending on the management regime; they can hence play an important role in stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2). This is why a new climate change mitigation architecture titled "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries (REDD) is currently under consideration by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
This site is a rebuilt archive of communityredd.net, the project’s original website, restored from the Internet Archive. Some files and interactive charts were not preserved.
Why and how the pilot paid communities for forest carbon.
OpenCharnawati, Kayarkhola and Ludikhola watersheds.
OpenPayments made to community forests in three watersheds.
OpenCarbon and socioeconomic data of the pilot sites.
OpenGuidelines, baseline reports and working papers.
OpenHow the pilot was coordinated.
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