Carbon

Jane Boles, Cornelia Rindt, and Cecilia Simon

Innovative Market Mechanisms to Support Climate-Smart Smallholder Agriculture

Jane Boles

Smallholder farmers produce a large volume of the world’s commodities and are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate. Fortunately smallholders are also powerful potential allies in the fight against global climate change. Carbon-smart agricultural land management holds the power to mitigate climate change through carbon stock enhancement, while building on-farm resilience to its effects by boosting soil productivity, food security, and farmer revenues. And yet despite obvious wins, carbon-smart smallholder agriculture has not been widely adopted. This session will explore some of the challenges to financing and implementing carbon-smart agriculture, with a focus on solutions for managing and financing smallholder coffee and cocoa agroforestry systems. We will discuss some of the innovative market mechanisms that have been designed in recent years to finance a shift towards sustainability in smallholder systems. Specific case studies undertaken by NatureBank Asset management and its partner, Taking Root, will be reviewed. In so doing, Fellows will have an opportunity to understand opportunities and challenges associated with carbon finance, impact investment, and other agricultural market mechanisms such as product certification.

Ecosystem Management Agreements Between Government and Indigenous Groups: Great Bear Forest Carbon Project

Cornelia Rindt

This session will focus on the Great Bear Forest Carbon Project and the various agreements/groups that participated in making the project happen. For a long time, the area was known as “war in the woods” due to massive protests by indigenous people and environmental groups, and market campaigns by NGOs against forest companies. We will cover some of the agreements and processes that enabled opposing groups to sit down together and work out a plan to protect the region while allowing some harvesting to take place. The process took many years but the groups persevered to protect the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii and develop the forest carbon project. The process resulted in the Atmospheric Benefit Sharing Agreements, in which the government and indigenous communities share the benefits that arise from the carbon project. We will also look at some of the ongoing challenges within the region.

Carbon-edit.mp4

Ceci-Kinship 2022.pptx

Cecilia Simon

2022_Great Bear Project.pdf

Cornelia Rindt

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