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Scaling up standards beyond the Project level: Programmatic, Jurisdictional and Nested Approaches
April, 2012. Unna Chokkalingam and S. Anuradha Vanniarachchy. Forest Carbon Asia Brief No. 6. Methods and Standards Updates. www.forestcarbonasia.org
Summary
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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