Talk:Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project

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May 27, 2011 Apparently World Bank activities in Himachal Pradesh are quite notable in that they have signed on to world’s largest CDM project with the HP state government. ...."what is to be the world’s largest and India’s first clean development mechanism (CDM) project under which the bank will buy carbon credits from the new forests being developed on degraded lands under a watershed management program...⋅

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Himachal inks pact with World Bank to secure carbon credits The Hindu 2011-05-23

World Bank, Himachal sign carbon credit agreement The Times of India 2011-05-23

Carbon trading begins in Himachal Pradesh Mumbai Mirror 2011-06-27

Carbon crunching at low price for the benefit of advanced nations Sudhirendar Sharma Deccan Herald 2011-07-07

Carbon crunching at low price for the benefit of advanced nations

By Sudhirendar Sharma


 * each family in 177 village panchayats will earn between Rs 4,000 to Rs 7,000 per hectare per year


 * linked to Spain: carbon credits: transfer of funds between the India and the client, DNA of Spain (wikify) is being brokered by the World Bank, which is a trustee of the BioCarbon Fund.


 * the BioCarbon Fund since May 2004 is a public/private initiative administered by the World Bank that aims to deliver cost-effective emission reductions, while promoting biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation.


 * silviculture activities are anticipated to provide 343 man-days per hectare of employment

Conditions apply
 * ten per cent of the total carbon revenue will accrue to the forest department as overhead charges

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 * Overtly the revenue sharing arrangement may seem ordinary transaction, in reality computing carbon sequestered both in tree biomass above and the soil below is immensely complicated. Calculated at a modest Rs 240 per ton of sequestered carbon dioxide, a ton of carbon dioxide converted into biomass under new plantations is counted as one credit.

The carbon credits from such projects are sold as Certified Emissions Reductions (CER). For selling the CERs, the villagers get the ‘cash’ whereas the elusive ‘credit’ wrest with the buyer. Under the provisions of the project, conditions have been stipulated before the actual carbon revenue starts to flow...The landowners need to ensure that the tree density is no less than 1,100 plants per hectare; that no felling of trees from the land under the project shall be permitted; and that no part of the land brought under such plantations shall be diverted for any non-forestry purposes. Given the diversity of land ownership, the net gain at the household level is likely to be truncated on account of differential carbon revenue sharing...Farmers are expectedly awaiting the validity of the project by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) when the institutional mechanism set up by the government for smooth transfer of carbon revenue at the local level would be put to test...Promising though it may sound, the flipside of the story is that the so-called Clean Development Mechanism, a central part of the Kyoto Protocol, has yet to come clear on its intended objectives...Does the mechanism not provide developed countries with a cheap alternative to reducing their own greenhouse gas emissions? It is further argued that such projects promote cost-effective carbon reductions through ‘offsetting’ projects located in developing countries while simultaneously allowing developed countries to continue business-as-usual...Mounting criticism...Although CDM projects are in the early stages of their evolution, criticism nonetheless has started piling against them in most countries. Not without reason as several projects have only secondary objective of promoting sustainable development in host countries. ..While the CDM has created the largest carbon offset market, the CER have seemingly remained underpriced. Earning a meager Rs 7,000 a year from protecting a hectare of afforested land, that the project promises, may not be appealing enough should the land be valued otherwise! Given the fact that the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh has an estimated 2.48 million hectares of wasteland, the potential of replicating carbon revenue generating project seem promising nonetheless...However, developing such projects is technically cumbersome and financially infeasible unless there are donors to underwrite the preparatory expenses. Else, it doesn’t seem economically expedient for a state to invest in a project that will generate only Rs 20 crore over a period of 20 years...Undoubtedly, there is an urgent need to simplify methodologies, expedite the validation process alongside proper pricing of CER should the potential of carbon sequestration were to be optimally realised!...:The project design document has positioned the sale of CERs as a critical incentive to the stakeholders to protect, regenerate and manage the watersheds without any comparison to the prevailing and emerging economic scenario in the state. Unless the stakeholders value the carbon revenue mechanism to their competitive advantage, such projects will continue to serve the interest of the clients only. 

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