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Replication data for: Will funding to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and (forest) Degradation (REDD+) stop conversion of peat swamps to oil palm in orangutan habitat in Tripa in Aceh, Indonesia?

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Title Replication data for: Will funding to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and (forest) Degradation (REDD+) stop conversion of peat swamps to oil palm in orangutan habitat in Tripa in Aceh, Indonesia?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/25231
 
Creator Tata, Hesti Lestari
 
Publisher World Agroforestry - Research Data Repository
 
Description Tripa is the last remaining peat-swamp forest that harbours a poten
tially viable Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) sub-population in a formally but not effectively protected area. It appears to be a simple showcase where current efforts to financially support reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) converge with biodiversity and social co-benefits. In practice, however, the situation is more complex. REDD+ efforts interact with global palm oil trade and regulatory approaches (the moratorium) to achieve national goals for emissions reduction under umbrella of nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMA). To contextualize this debate, we assessed (i) land-use history and formal basis of palm-oil companies' rights; (ii) carbon (C) stocks, historical emission levels and potential emissions that can be avoided; (iii) economic benefits of land-use options and opportunity costs of avoiding emissions; (iv) biodiversity and environmental services; and (v) alternative options for "high C stock development" and employment generation. Natural forest cover declined (54 % in 1995, 18 % in 2009) while oil palm increased 4 - 39 %. Aboveground C stocks decreased from 148 Mg ha -1 in 1990 to 61 Mg ha-1 in 2009, leading to average annual emissions of 14.5 Mg (carbon dioxide) CO2e ha -1 year-1. While 41 % of these emissions yield less than American Dollar (USD) 5 of current economic benefits per Mg CO2e emitted and might be compensated by REDD+, nearly all new emissions derive from a breach of existing laws, regulations and voluntary palm-oil standards. Substantial investment in alternative employment is needed, rather than carbon payments per se, to support livelihoods in a low carbon emissions economy
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Avioded deforestation
carbon market
eco-certification
FALLOW model
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA)
Scenario studies
 
Date 2013-10-17
 
Relation Rahayu S, Oktaviani R, Tata HL, van Noordwijk M. 2011. Carbon stock and tree diversity in Tripa peat swamp forest. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium of Indonesia Wood Researcher Society. p:545-551. http://www.worldagroforestry.org/sea/Publications/files/paper/PP0300-11.PDF
Tata HL, and Rahayu S. 2012. Hutan rawa Tripa sebagai habitat orangutan Sumatra: ancaman dan peluang. In: Janudianto et al. (eds). Membangun kembali Aceh: penelitian dan program rehabilitasi Aceh pasca Tsunami. World Agroforestry Centre. Bogor. Pp.:373-382.
Widayati A, Tata HL, Rahayu S and Said Z. 2012. Conversion of the Tripa peat swamp forest and the effect on Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) habitat and aboveground carbon loss. Brief No. 33: Tripa series. Bogor, Indonesia. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Program. 4 p
. http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/PDFs/PB12261.PDF
Tata HL, van Noordwijk M, Mulyoutami E and Widayati A. 2012. Economics versus conservation: a case study of Tripa peatland. Brief no. 34, Tripa series. Bogor, Indonesia. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Program. 4 p. http://www.worldagroforestry.org/sea/publication?do=view_pub_detail
&pub_no=PB0059-13
 
Type Survey and observation, laboratory analysis, spatial imagery data, model analysis, desk study