| 6 December 2008 | ||
| 2:30 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
ASB will be holding a side event at Forest Day on 6 December 2008 in Poznan, Poland. Come learn about our current and future work on Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits. This event is co-hosted with the Macauley Institute for Land Use Research (Scotland).
Event title: Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits: bottom-up approaches to measurement and policy change
Date: 6 December 2008
Time: Session 1 (14.30-16.00)
Summary
As the debate on REDD evolves, a clear knowledge gap has persisted – what are the real opportunity costs to smallholder farmers for avoiding deforestation? Working at sites across the tropical forest margins, the ASB Partnership has produced widely-used research on carbon emissions and economic returns to land associated with land use change at sites in Indonesia, Peru, Philippines and Cameroon. The bottom-up analysis finds that economic returns of these land use changes are extremely low per tonne of CO2 emitted, helping to confirm that valuing standing forests for their carbon can drastically reduce emissions from deforestation and potentially improve the livelihoods of local communities. ASB is engaging with the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute on new projects to support REDD implementation, investigating which REDD methodology can best support implementation, and how national-level targets can translate into on-the-ground behaviour change.
Written by: ASB Blog Editor
