Sooner or later, community contribution pays. Conservation and sustainable management of the forest increases carbon stock. Carbon stock reducing green house gas emission contributing to climate change mitigation. Voluntary market pays for carbon stock. According to news published in Kathmandu Post on 14 June 2011, the payment for carbon stock ranges from US$ 3 to 5 in the current market, that could go to even US 20 per tone of carbon sequestration. This payment is made for additionality the communities make for conservation and sustainable use. A pilot project in Nepal (ICIMOD among others) has the experience that the communities have been able to increase 2.67 tonnes of carbon per hectare of forest in a year. In monetary term, the community could earn US$ 8 to 10.7 per hectare per year. Now the concern is how best that sum of money could be used for the benefit of the marginalised communities so that they would be encouraged to undertake conservation and sustainable use.
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- Basan
- Kathmandu, Bagmati Zone, Nepal
- I am Basan Shrestha from Kathmandu, Nepal. I use the term 'BASAN' as 'Balancing Actions for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources'. I am a Design, Monitoring & Evaluation professional. I hold 1) MSc in Regional and Rural Development Planning, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2002; 2) MSc in Statistics, Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu, Nepal, 1995; and 3) MA in Sociology, TU, 1997. I have more than 10 years of professional experience in socio-economic research, monitoring and documentation on agricultural and natural resource management. I had worked in Lumle Agricultural Research Centre, western Nepal from Nov. 1997 to Dec. 2000; CARE Nepal, mid-western Nepal from Mar. 2003 to June 2006 and WTLCP in far-western Nepal from June 2006 to Jan. 2011, Training Institute for Technical Instruction (TITI) from July to Sep 2011, UN Women Nepal from Sep to Dec 2011 and Mercy Corps Nepal from 24 Jan 2012 to 14 August 2016 and CAMRIS International in Nepal commencing 1 February 2017. I have published articles to my credit.
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