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1) A fee-for-biomass model where they charge landowners a fee to remove waste biomass from properties.
2) Generating revenue from the sale of biochar and consulting services to help clients implement biochar systems.
3) Potential franchise models are discussed where Carbon Cultures licenses their pyrolysis technology and provides training to partners.
The document also discusses packaging and pricing biochar for different market segments and notes some key contacts made with potential partners.
Pashupati Nath KOIRALA "Forest entitlement and benefit sharing in community f...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
This document summarizes the findings of a study on benefit sharing in two community forests in Nepal. It finds that wealthier households receive more benefits from timber resources than poorer households. Poorer households rely more on the forests for fuelwood, fodder, and wild foods. While institutional arrangements aim to provide equal access, elite capture in leadership positions means benefits often favor wealthier users. The community funds generated also disproportionately support infrastructure over pro-poor programs. Recommendations include policy changes to mandate pro-poor activities and mobilizing forestry staff to encourage more equitable benefit sharing focused on poverty alleviation.
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The document outlines Carbon Cultures' potential revenue models, including:
1) A fee-for-biomass model where they charge landowners a fee to remove waste biomass from properties.
2) Generating revenue from the sale of biochar and consulting services to help clients implement biochar systems.
3) Potential franchise models are discussed where Carbon Cultures licenses their pyrolysis technology and provides training to partners.
The document also discusses packaging and pricing biochar for different market segments and notes some key contacts made with potential partners.
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The document discusses torrefaction, which is a process for upgrading biomass into a higher energy density solid fuel. It describes ECN, an energy research institute in the Netherlands that develops sustainable energy technologies including their work on torrefaction. Torrefaction involves heating biomass to 200-300°C in the absence of oxygen, which makes the biomass more energy dense, hydrophobic, and easier to transport and handle as a solid fuel. ECN has developed TOP technology for torrefaction and pelletization of biomass into a fuel with properties suitable for co-firing in coal power plants.
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This document discusses ecosystem services and emerging markets for them. It provides background on the concept of ecosystem services and examples. Key points include:
- Ecosystem services are benefits that ecosystems provide to people, like food, water, recreation opportunities.
- Markets are emerging for ecosystem services like carbon sequestration, water quality protection, as demand increases for these natural benefits.
- Managing lands for both traditional uses like timber and ecosystem services like watershed protection through emerging markets could provide additional revenue streams for landowners.
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Suzano is a large Brazilian pulp and paper producer that has significantly increased its production capacity over the last five years. It is now exploring opportunities in renewable energy from biomass. Suzano sees an opportunity to supply wood pellets to European utilities looking to increase their use of renewable sources. Suzano has extensive forestry research and development capabilities that have continuously improved forest yields and clones over decades, giving it a strong competitive advantage in the biomass energy business through its ability to produce high density, high yield energetic forests optimized for energy production.
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The document discusses torrefaction, which is a process for upgrading biomass into a higher energy density solid fuel. It describes ECN, an energy research institute in the Netherlands that develops sustainable energy technologies including their work on torrefaction. Torrefaction involves heating biomass to 200-300°C in the absence of oxygen, which makes the biomass more energy dense, hydrophobic, and easier to transport and handle as a solid fuel. ECN has developed TOP technology for torrefaction and pelletization of biomass into a fuel with properties suitable for co-firing in coal power plants.
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http://www.cseindia.org/content/cses-south-asian-media-briefing-workshop-climate-change-2011
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- Ecosystem services are benefits that ecosystems provide to people, like food, water, recreation opportunities.
- Markets are emerging for ecosystem services like carbon sequestration, water quality protection, as demand increases for these natural benefits.
- Managing lands for both traditional uses like timber and ecosystem services like watershed protection through emerging markets could provide additional revenue streams for landowners.
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The document summarizes experiences from implementing an avoided deforestation project in the Juma Reserve in Brazil. It describes the location and creation of the reserve through community consultation. It outlines the beneficiaries of the forest allowance program and institutional roles. It discusses financial investments, carbon credits generated, community investments in education and health. It also describes capacity building programs, sustainable production, and the importance of community involvement for project success.
Cfri Energy From Bark Beetle October 21 2010mpattonmallory
The document discusses harvesting energy from forests impacted by bark beetle epidemics in Colorado and Wyoming. It outlines opportunities for using forest biomass as a feedstock for bioenergy and biobased products. Challenges include the large volumes of dead trees which increase fire risks, high costs of harvesting and transporting the distributed biomass resource, and lack of sufficient processing infrastructure. The document evaluates supplying biomass to existing facilities through co-firing with coal or developing smaller-scale heat and power systems.
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Presentation from Pham Van Trung
Vietnam Forest Protection & Development Fund (VNFF)
Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development (MARD)
ASFN Workshop
Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar, 1-3 June 2015
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Vietnam has implemented a nationwide payment for forest environmental services (PFES) scheme since 2010, being the first country in Asia to do so. The PFES program collects funds from users of forest environmental services like hydropower plants and water suppliers, with revenues exceeding $50 million annually by 2012. However, there are ongoing challenges with equitable distribution of funds, lack of guidance for all ecosystem services, and delays in payments from some users. Improving the national forest inventory, revising PFES policies, and strengthening communication are suggested to address equity issues and further progress payment for forest environmental services in Vietnam.
Implementation of payment for Forest Environmental Services in Viet NamCIFOR-ICRAF
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The document discusses the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and its interest in forest landscape restoration. ITTO aims to promote sustainable management of tropical forests and trade in tropical timber. It has 60 member countries and has funded over 750 projects totaling over $375 million. Relevant to forest landscape restoration, ITTO has guidelines on restoring degraded forests and conserving biodiversity in production forests. ITTO supports projects involving restoration, reduced impact logging, and community forestry.
The document summarizes an IFAD project in Bac Kan Province, Vietnam. The project aims to reduce poverty among ethnic minority groups by promoting sustainable agro-forestry development. It will establish legal forest land rights, develop hillside farming systems, and create income opportunities from forestry and livestock production. The project targets poor households, especially women, from the Nung, Dao, Mong and Tay ethnic groups. It has a budget of $25.27 million and will be co-funded by IFAD, the Government of Vietnam, and project beneficiaries. The project expects to substantially increase incomes and help extremely poor households escape poverty.
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2) An integrated policy approach is proposed to address these challenges through tools like conservation incentive agreements, payments for ecosystem services, environmental impact assessments, and corporate social responsibility standards.
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Benefit Distribution System in Payments for Forest Environmental Services
1. Benefit Distribution System in
Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES)
Case study: Bac Kan province
Dam Viet Bac & Delia C. Catacutan
ICRAF Vietnam
The Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy
Hanoi, Viet Nam, November 13-14, 2012
WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE
2. Contents
1.Context of PFES in Vietnam and Bac Kan
2.Proposed benefit distribution system (BDS)
in Bac Kan
3.Questions for discussion
WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE
3. National Policy Framework
Vietnam
• The Vietnamese Decision No.
380/QD – TTG: ES buyers should
pay ES providers
• Payments for forest
environmental services (DECREE
No. 99/2010/NĐ-CP.)
WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE
4. PFES Benefit Distribution System in Vietnam
Vietnam Forest Protection & Dev.
Vietnam Forest Protection & Dev.
Fund
Fund K factors:
K1: Status of forest
Provincial Forest Protection and Development Fund
Provincial Forest Protection and Development Fund K2: Forest
types/purpose
K3: Origins of forest
K4: Difficulties in
An appropriate intermediate payment level
An appropriate intermediate payment level forest protection,
(e.g. district or commune)
(e.g. district or commune) including social and
geographic factors
Environmental services’ providers
Environmental services’ providers
**Forest owners
Forest owners
**Households/individuals contracted by forest owners
Households/individuals contracted by forest owners
5. Proposed BDS for PFES in Ba Be District, Bac Kan
> 85% • • Ba Be National Park
Ba Be National Park
Na Hang
Na Hang VND 20/Kwh Vietnam • • Ba Be Forest
Ba Be Forest
Hydropower
Hydropower Enterprise
Enterprise
FPF (100%) • • Protection Forest
Plant Protection Forest
Plant Management Board
Management Board
• • Commune People’s
Commune People’s
-0.5%
Committee (un-
Committee (un-
management
- < 5% contracted)
contracted)
fee
contingency
Ta Leng
Ta Leng
Hydropower
Hydropower - < 10% -10% management
plant VND 20/Kwh managemen fee
plant t
Bac Kan
Bac Kan Village community
Village community
FPF
FPF Contracted teams/groups
Contracted teams/groups
• • Ba Be National
Ba Be National
Park
(99.5%)
(99.5%)
Park
• • Boat cooperative
Boat cooperative 1-2% of
• • Households with
Households with revenues
homestay
homestay Households
Households
businesses in Bo
businesses in Bo
Lu and Pac Ngoi
Lu and Pac Ngoi
villages
villages
6. Stakeholders’ preference on BDS: case study in Ba Be and Na Ri
Districts (Modified REDD+ Game by Dave Eastman, ICRAF/Oregon
University)
(1) Preference over purpose-
oriented cash for
infrastructure and LURCs
(2) First-ranked benefit type, by
individual land tenure status
(LURC: Land use right certificate)
8. Questions to be discussed
1. How can PFES schemes be developed with the least
transaction costs?
2. What are current applications of K factors and their
limitations on BDS in PFES?
3. What are local stakeholders’ preferences on benefits from,
or payment for ES?
4. How can BDS be designed that takes account different
forest land tenure systems of ES providers?
5. How can PFES reach the poor and landless people?
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9. Thank you !
More information about ICRAF’s PES work
in Vietnam
Delia C. Catacutan, Ph.D.
Country Representative
ICRAF-Vietnam
No. 8, Lot13A, Trung Hoa St.
Yen Hoa Ward, Cau Giay District
Hanoi, Vietnam
Email: D.C. Catacutan@cgiar.org
Visit us:
www.worldagroforestrycentre.org
www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/sea/vn
www.rupes.worldagroforestrycentre.org
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Editor's Notes
The Vietnamese Decision No. 380/QD - TTG provides that hydroelectric plants, local water utility and tourist agencies should pay providers of environmental services