Primary goals

• Propose and assess the pros and cons of different institutional arrangement archetypes and mechanisms of collaboration on initiatives based on community-based reforestation for carbon. This work examines through a political economy and inter-sectional lenses potential opportunities and pitfalls for participating communities of existing arrangements promoting community-based reforestation in the context of carbon outcomes and consequences for effective, efficient, and equitable benefit-sharing results.
• Examine best-practice arrangements for efficient, effective, and equitable benefit-sharing arrangements associated with community-based reforestation for carbon and define best-practices reforestation.

Key outcomes

1.  International workshop to take stock of benefit-sharing mechanisms in the context of community-based initiatives (i.e. REDD+, PES, Forest Landscape Restoration): October 2023. 
2. In progress research publications on best-practices in benefit-sharing and archetypes 

Progress

This project commenced in June 2022 and is ongoing. 

Lead researchers

• Liz Ota
• Claudia Romero
• John Herbohn
• Robin Chazdon
• Dora Carias Vega
• Igor Nascimento de Carvalho

Project partners

• Project Tarsier
• Shell

Sustainable Development Goals

This project works towards these UN Sustainable Development Goals:

• SDG 1: No Poverty
• SDG 4: Quality Education
• SDG 5: Gender Equality
• SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth