Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU) -

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Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU) -
a whole landscape approach to reducing
emissions
Florence Bernard, Peter Minang, Meine van
Noordwijk, Elizabeth Kahurani (ASB
Partnership, Nairobi, Kenya f.bernard_at_cgiar.org)
Why REALU?
Figure 1. Emissions captured and part of land
cover change matrix
included in the accounts under different REDD
scenarios
REALU looks beyond REDD to a possible and
fair inclusion of all transitions in land cover
(trees outside forest, agroforestry systems and
community-based forest management) that can
achieve carbon storage and emissions avoided.

• REALU recognizes REDD but tries to address
• the challenges of REDD as follows
• The absence of a globally agreed definition of
  Forest will impede implementation of REDD or
  REDD
• Drivers of deforestation are largely outside the
  forests and are not addressed within REDD
• Current REDD construction ignores high potential
  emissions reduction and sequestration in other
  land use
• REDD as just a partial accounting of land use is
  challenged by cross-scale issues such as
  additionality, leakage, and permanence

How different is REALU from REDD?
Figure 2. The four pillars that support a
whole-landscape agenda for
carbon management

• REALU towards the ultimate goal of adaptative
  sustainable livelihoods and climate resilience
• The REALU architecture consists of four pillars
  addressing
• specific land uses and sectors
• Reducing forest-based emissions (REDD)
• Reducing emissions from peat (REPeat)
• Restocking land through trees and soil carbon
  (REStock)
• Reducing emissions from agricultural greenhouse
  gasses (REAGG)
• Emission reduction outside of Annex-I countries
  needs to be
• based on principles or foundation stones
• National sovereignty within differentiated global
  responsibility.
• Respect of rights of indigenous people and rules
  for free and prior informed consent.
• Integrity of global accounting systems.

Linking REALU and NAMAs example of Indonesia s
emission reduction efforts

• NAMAs combine a set of actions necessary to
  facilitate the transition to low-carbon growth
  for different sectors of the economy, including
  agriculture and forestry. With NAMA, all land
  uses qualify for emission reduction, regardless
  of forest definition.
• Indonesia hopes that combining NAMA with
  international co-investment, it can achieve a
  further emission reduction of 15 (in addition
  to its 2020 emission reduction goal by 26
  without reliance on foreign co-investment).
• REALU is land-based NAMAs as it considers
  Emissions from all land uses, therefore it is a
  first step at NAMAs from a land use sense.