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Small holder’s carbon forestry project in Haryana India: issues and challenges

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Abstract

The small scale forestry carbon project in Haryana, India has been registered as a Clean Development Project (CDM) activity and is the first such projects from India. Developed under the Kyoto Protocol of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the projects aims at restoring heavily degraded sandune affected private lands and contribute to climate change mitigation. The project is expected to sequester 234,584 tons of carbon dioxide (tCO2) in 20 years project cycle with an average annual sequestration of 11,729 (tCO2) per year. The project is expected to have a total carbon stock of 385,253.1 ton Carbon (tC) in the project life span of 20 years as against 7,920.6 (tC) in the baseline scenario. The carbon credits earned from the project is supposed to provide additional incentives to the smallholders who have formed a cooperative society for this purpose. This paper addresses the issues and challenges in developing the project activity and also discusses the lessons learned in the process. The project is supposed to help in poverty alleviation and has become a success story for rehabilitating degraded lands in semi arid regions of India through plantation forestry.

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  1. Approved methodology: Simplified baseline and monitoring methodology for small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism implemented on grasslands or croplands.

  2. Woody perennials refers to other than tree vegetation and shrubs that are present in the project boundary below the thresholds used to define forests in India for A/R CDM projects i.e. minimum area of 0.05 ha, plant with recorded potential to reach height of 2 meters and crown cover of 15%.

  3. Annual cropland non woody stocks = 5.5 t C/ha above and below ground (IPCC 2003), Section 5.3.1.2)

  4. Reference: letter no. 280, Indira Gandhi Canal Project, Forest Department, Government of Rajasthan)

  5. Reference: letter no. 280, Indira Gandhi Canal Project, Forest Department, Government of Rajasthan)

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Chakraborty, D. Small holder’s carbon forestry project in Haryana India: issues and challenges. Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change 15, 899–915 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-010-9248-8

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