Forest Carbon Asia Publications
Scaling up standards beyond the Project level: Programmatic, Jurisdictional and Nested Approaches
Date: |
April, 2012 |
Authors: |
Unna Chokkalingam and S. Anuradha Vanniarachchy |
Publication Type: |
Information Brief |
Details: |
Forest Carbon Asia Brief No. 6. Methods and Standards Updates. www.forestcarbonasia.org |
In response to the upcoming international REDD+ mechanism that calls for national level forest carbon accounting and implementation of numerous safeguards; programmatic, jurisdictional and nested standards and approaches are being developed. Voluntary market standards have begun to look at scaling up from project-level standards to jurisdictional-level initiatives (state, national) and including project-level activities as nested components of the jurisdictional-level accounting to meet the emerging requirements.
REDD readiness support programs and processes are seeking to develop and integrate the required safeguards into national REDD+ preparation and implementation activities. Three major initiatives to build standards for national REDD+ policies and programs are outlined. This brief also provides a summary and update of evolving programmatic and jurisdictional standards; as well as a continued update on developments under project-level standards from February to April 2012.
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Keywords: ACR, Asia, CarbonFix, CCBS, CCX, CDM AR, China, compliance markets, COP 17, COP 18, forest carbon standards, GCS, ISO 14064, J-VER, japan, Kyoto, methodology, nested approach, Nested REDD+, Panda Standard, Plan Vivo, SOCIALCARBON, standard, Standards, validation, VCS, verification, voluntary markets