TY - JOUR

T1 - Getting ready for REDD+ in Tanzania

T2 - a case study of progress and challenges

AU - Burgess, Neil D.

AU - Bahane, Bruno

AU - Clairs, Tim

AU - Danielsen, Finn

AU - Dalsgaard, Søren

AU - Funder, Mikkel

AU - Hagelberg, Niklas

AU - Harrison, Paul

AU - Haule, Christognus

AU - Kabalimu, Kekilia

AU - Kilahama, Felician

AU - Kilawe, Edward

AU - Lewis, Simon L.

AU - Lovett, Jon C.

AU - Lyatuu, Gertrude

AU - Marshall, Andrew R.

AU - Meshack, Charles

AU - Miles, Lera

AU - Milledge, Simon A.H.

AU - Munishi, Pantaleo K.T.

AU - Nashanda, Evarist

AU - Shirima, Deo

AU - Swetnam, Ruth D.

AU - Willcock, Simon

AU - Williams, Andrew

AU - Zahabu, Eliakim

PY - 2010/7/1

Y1 - 2010/7/1

N2 - The proposed mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) offers significant potential for conserving forests to reduce negative impacts of climate change. Tanzania is one of nine pilot countries for the United Nations REDD Programme, receives significant funding from the Norwegian, Finnish and German governments and is a participant in the World Bank?s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. In combination, these interventions aim to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, provide an income to rural communities and conserve biodiversity. The establishment of the UN-REDD Programme in Tanzania illustrates real-world challenges in a developing country. These include currently inadequate baseline forestry data sets (needed to calculate reference emission levels), inadequate government capacity and insufficient experience of implementing REDD+-type measures at operational levels. Additionally, for REDD+ to succeed, current users of forest resources must adopt new practices, including the equitable sharing of benefits that accrue from REDD+ implementation. These challenges are being addressed by combined donor support to implement a national forest inventory, remote sensing of forest cover, enhanced capacity for measuring, reporting and verification, and pilot projects to test REDD+ implementation linked to the existing Participatory Forest Management Programme. Our conclusion is that even in a country with considerable donor support, progressive forest policies, laws and regulations, an extensive network of managed forests and increasingly developed locally-based forest management approaches, implementing REDD+ presents many challenges. These are being met by coordinated, genuine partnerships between government, non-government and community-based agencies

AB - The proposed mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) offers significant potential for conserving forests to reduce negative impacts of climate change. Tanzania is one of nine pilot countries for the United Nations REDD Programme, receives significant funding from the Norwegian, Finnish and German governments and is a participant in the World Bank?s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. In combination, these interventions aim to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, provide an income to rural communities and conserve biodiversity. The establishment of the UN-REDD Programme in Tanzania illustrates real-world challenges in a developing country. These include currently inadequate baseline forestry data sets (needed to calculate reference emission levels), inadequate government capacity and insufficient experience of implementing REDD+-type measures at operational levels. Additionally, for REDD+ to succeed, current users of forest resources must adopt new practices, including the equitable sharing of benefits that accrue from REDD+ implementation. These challenges are being addressed by combined donor support to implement a national forest inventory, remote sensing of forest cover, enhanced capacity for measuring, reporting and verification, and pilot projects to test REDD+ implementation linked to the existing Participatory Forest Management Programme. Our conclusion is that even in a country with considerable donor support, progressive forest policies, laws and regulations, an extensive network of managed forests and increasingly developed locally-based forest management approaches, implementing REDD+ presents many challenges. These are being met by coordinated, genuine partnerships between government, non-government and community-based agencies

U2 - 10.1017/S0030605310000554

DO - 10.1017/S0030605310000554

M3 - Erthygl

VL - 44

SP - 339

EP - 351

JO - Oryx

JF - Oryx

SN - 0030-6053

IS - 3

ER -