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	Policy Brief
	Community-based Forest Monitoring for REDD+: Lessons and reflections from the field
	Vol. / Issue: Number 22
	Author: Scheyvens, Henry
	Policy Brief | 2012/10 | Language: English
	Publisher: IGES(Hayama, Japan) | Copyright: IGES | Page No./Total No. of Pages: p.10.

This policy brief introduces the roles that local communities can play in monitoring changes in forest carbon stocks. It discusses lessons learnt from the Community Carbon Accounting Project, which is training local communities in Asia-Pacific countries on forest monitoring, from the perspectives of sustainable development and carbon accounting.