LAND RIGHTS, INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AND BENEFIT SHARING TO ACHIEVE GUARANTEED CO2 EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS (ER)

CHRISTOPHER TANNER, ALDA SALAMÃO

This paper looks at how customary land rights intersect with REDD+ projects to reduce CO2 emissions from forests areas with local populations. It then looks at how the emissions reductions can be guaranteed far into the future. Without this, they cannot become a vehicle for long-term investment by international institutions. The paper uses a new REDD+ emissions reduction programme (ERP) in Mozambique as a reference case. It examines how the progressive Mozambican policy and legal framework supports the design of a successful ERP seen as an integrated rural development programme, including the distribution of ER revenues to local people whose collaboration in the programme is essential. To discuss the long-term guarantee issue, the paper looks at a little used feature of the Mozambican constitution and suggests that States must embrace a more radical, devolved form of local partnership to generate ERs now, and guarantee their long-term permanence and marketability.

Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018

Document type:LAND RIGHTS, INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AND BENEFIT SHARING TO ACHIEVE GUARANTEED CO2 EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS (ER) (487 kB - pdf)