REDD+ Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development

Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development International Institute for Environment and Development IIED, the UK University of Life Sciences Aas, Norway Fundação Amazonas Sustentável

Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development

International Institute for

Environment and Development

(IIED, the UK)

University of Life Sciences

(Aas, Norway)

Fundação Amazonas

Sustentável (Brazil)

Hamilton Resources (Ghana)

Sokoine University of

Agriculture, Faculty of Forestry

and Nature Conservation

(Tanzania)

Makerere University, Faculty of

Forestry and Nature

Conservation (Uganda)

SNV actively seeks other partners and potential donors to help collaborate on this project For more information, please contact:

Adrian Enright,

Project Manager, at

aenright@snvworld.org

To find out more about the project visit:

http://www.iied.org/natural-resources http://www.snvredd.com

Pilot site

Project Overview Pilot Project

in Vietnam

Reducing emissions from

deforestation and forest

degradation (REDD+) is a

major focal point of

international efforts to

address climate change.

This three year project, funded by the

Norwegian Agency for Development

Cooperation (Norad), is looking into how the

different options for REDD+ design and policy

at international, national and sub-national

levels will help achieve more effective

greenhouse gas emission reductions in

conjunction with sustainable development

and poverty reduction

The project is working with selected REDD+ pilot

projects across five countries: Vietnam, Brazil,

Tanzania, Uganda and Ghana Each country will

generate evidence and improve understanding

of: the impact on poverty of REDD+ pilot activities;

the relative merits of different types of payment

mechanisms; and the transaction costs of REDD+

Vietnam was selected as a project site because it has already implemented policies and programmes to reduce deforestation or increase forest cover, including new policies that have introduced payments for ecosystem services

Exploring options

SNV is the leading partner for Vietnam and is working alongside project partners at the REDD+ project site in Cat Tien to investigate different options for REDD+ and to evaluate their effects on poverty goals and emission reductions

This will include looking at the internal distribution and allocation of REDD+ payments under different scenarios, with

an emphasis on understanding the extent to which pro-poor approaches to REDD+ payment systems can be cost-effective

Opportunity costs & BDS

SNV is also leading the development of a framework to assess the opportunity cost of REDD+ projects, with the aim of scaling up this work to develop national cost curves for REDD+ This work will build on existing decision making tools to facilitate future investment into pro-poor REDD+ projects within Vietnam and internationally SNV is also exploring options for appropriate Benefit Distribution Systems (BDS) for REDD+ by working alongside communities and local authorities to determine the most effective and efficient ways of distributing REDD+ payments

1,000 100 10

1

0.1 0.01 0.001 0 -0.001 -0.01 -0.1 -1 -10 -100

0 700,000 1,400,000 2,100,000 2,800,000 3,500,000 4,200,000 4,900,000 5,600,000 6,300,000 7,000,000

Carbon Stock Changes (Mg CO2 - eq/ha.year)

11

Opportunity cost estimate for REDD+ pilot area, Vietnam

Medium forest > Shifting cultvation

Poor forest > Rubber

Poor forest > Bare land Poor forest > Shifting cultvation

Medium forest > Bare land