Day 56 – Q 2.What is the National REDD+ strategy? What are its objectives? Explain.
2. What is the National REDD+ strategy? What are its objectives? Explain.
राष्ट्रीय रेड + रणनीति क्या है? इसके उद्देश्य क्या हैं? स्पष्ट करें।
Introduction:
The REDD+ Strategy guided by the National REDD+ Policy is designed to address critical gaps in the capacity and institutional framework towards creating REDD+ Readiness in the country. The strategy seeks to address drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and also developing a roadmap for enhancement of forest carbon stocks and achieving sustainable management of forests through REDD+ actions.
Body:
Objectives of National REDD+ policy:
- To create REDD+ architecture at National and Sub-National levels to support REDD+ actions.
- To develop an appropriate REDD+ strategy and implementation frameworks at a nested level to represent the diversity of forests in the country.
- To manage the forests for a bouquet of ecosystem services, including but not limited to biodiversity, that are flowing to local communities from the forests and not for carbon services only.
- To safeguard the rights and interests of local communities including improvement of their livelihood.
- To encourage and incentivize local communities for their role in conservation by transferring the financial benefits accrued on account of REDD+ to them based on their performance, as is reflected in monitoring, including small scale projects at JFMC/ EDC level.
- To strengthen coordination among sectors and stakeholders having direct and indirect impacts on land use and forestry.
- To lay emphasis on achieving various thematic elements of SMF by addressing the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, afforestation of degraded areas, protection measures, etc. while implementing the REDD+ programmes.
- To improve and enhance supply of forest products and ecological and environmental services of the forests for comprehensively benefitting the society leading to increased growing stock and the stored carbon in the forest.
- To develop appropriate mechanism for channelizing REDD+ funding and transferring the accrued financial benefits to the communities in a fair, equitable and transparent manner.
- To provide adequate technical and financial resources to implement various phases and action plan of REDD+.
Note: The objectives are taken from Environment Ministry website. Exact content is not possible but your answer should explain and cover the basic features.
Conclusion:
The Strategy builds upon existing national circumstances which have been updated in line with India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change, Green India Mission and India’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to UNFCCC.
Best Answer: John Nash.
