Politicians make the policy. But it’s often left to business to implement it. For this reason RioPlus Business is featuring submissions from business across the globe in the lead up to Rio+20.
The aim is to demonstrate how Sustainable Development is becoming a reality on every continent, country and city.
Today Seema Karki from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) based in Kathmandu, Nepal explains how Himalayan communities have benefited from payments for preserving forests under the REDD+ scheme.
Nepal is one of the first countries in the world to include community forest management in the national forestry policy.
This confers authority to local communities to manage forest resources as forest user groups of an autonomous institution.
With support from Norad, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in partnership with Federation of Community Forestry Users’ Nepal (FECOFUN) and Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bio-resources (ANSAB), is piloting a REDD+ project in community forests in three watersheds of Nepal covering over 10,000 Hectare since 2009.
This action research based REDD+ pilot project aims to set up a (national) demonstrational governance and payment system for emission reduction through sustainable forest management from which local communities and indigenous people benefit.
It facilitates strengthening the civil societies’ capacity to ensure their significant contribution in national REDD policy process.
Contribution by local communities and civil societies into policy process, first requires local information system relating to communities abilities to measure carbon, their understanding – the role of climate change mitigation and adaptation and role of forest in sequestering [...]
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