Participatory carbon monitoring - the achievements and the issues raised need to be addressed
Keywords:
Community,, forest monitoring, forest carbon, participatoryAbstract
Participatory Carbon Monitoring (PCM) is an important part of the program
"Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation" (REDD +).
Based on analysis of 69 documents (9 in Vietnamese and 60 in English) this
article pointed out the achievements and results as well as the issues of PCM
that need to be addressed. The achievements and results in the country and
around the world: the position and the role of PCM were identified in the
system of national forest monitoring and Measurement - Report - Verification
(MRV) to report emissions in REDD + program; methods for participatory
carbon monitoring were developed; used results of community forest
management (CFM) to develop PCM; dataset measured by community was
used to estimate forest carbon that had the reliability (1 - 7% deviation) at a
cost of only 4 - 34% compared with professional bodies. The issues need to be
addressed in Vietnam: Communities are managing one quarter of the forest
area, so REDD + program would establish a strategy to attract the community
in data collection and forest monitoring; CFM techniques should be used to
develop the methods and tools for PCM; validation of the reliability and the
operating costs to select suitable activities for PCM; construction of temporary incentives policy for communities until REDD + program can pay based on the results. Community participation in the management and monitoring of forest resources, forest carbon is a critical requirement of the UNFCCC (2011), so there is a strong need to come up with guidelines for implementing PCM in Vietnam.
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