This is one of the presentations at the 1st day of "Technical Exchange on Jurisdictional REDD". See more at: http://www.idesam.org.br/technical-exchange-on-jurisdictional-redd-presentations/

1. Topic 2: Institutional Arrangements and Political
Issues
South-South Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR)
Exchange Workshop
Manaus, Brazil
13 June 2013
Naomi Swickard, VCSA13 Jun 2013

2. Outline
• Institutional/legal frameworks
• Right of use (carbon rights)
• Integration with national processes
(grandparenting); prioritizing subnational
jurisdictions; jurisdictional boundary definitions

3. Institutional Frameworks
• Jurisdictional Proponent: The government agency,
department or organization that has overall control and
responsibility for the jurisdictional REDD+ program, or a
government agency, department or organization that
together with others, each of which is also a
jurisdictional proponent, has overall control or
responsibility for the jurisdictional REDD+ program.
• Implementation Partner: Partners (eg, non-
governmental, civil society, private sector) may
contribute to the development of a program, such as
developing baselines or monitoring systems. Such
partners may not submit such elements for registration
to the VCS, unless they have been designated as the
authorized representative by the jurisdiction.

4. Institutional Frameworks
January 23 2013
• Clear institutional and legal frameworks are
necessary, but VCS does not further specify
how institutional arrangement should be set up
in a jurisdiction
• The Non-Permanence Risk Tool, will take into
account the establishment of institutional bodies
with legal authority over the program, capacity
of institutional bodies, and level of coordination
amongst the various agencies involved in
REDD+ (directly or indirectly)

5. Right of Use (carbon rights)
January 23 2013
• Where jurisdictions seek to issue VCUs, jurisdictions
must demonstrate the “right of use” to emission
reductions/removals, eg, by:
• A right of use arising under law (eg, establishing clear carbon
rights)
• A right of use arising or granted under statute, regulation or
decree by a competent authority
• A right of use arising by virtue of a statutory, property or
contractual right in the land, vegetation or conservational or
management process that generates GHG emission
reductions and/or removals
• A right of use arising from the enactment or enforcement of
laws, policies or regulations that lead to the generation of
GHG emission reductions and/or removals

6. Grandparenting
• ‘Grandparenting’: Providing time for projects and lower level
jurisdictions to transition into national/sub-national programs
• Where a higher level baseline is registered after the
registration of a lower level project or jurisdictional baseline:
• Lower level jurisdictional baseline shall be grandparented and
remain valid for 18 months
• Project level baseline shall be grandparented and remain valid for
the number of years remaining before due to be updated
• After grandparenting period, project baseline should always
be updated to harmonize with the higher level, except where
the higher level baseline doesn’t include the same activities,
within 18 months
• Where a subnational jurisdiction is registered and national
government subsequently defines different boundaries for
subnational jurisdictions, subnational jurisdiction is
grandparented

7. Jurisdictional Boundaries
• Boundaries may be set at the administrative area
(eg, province, district) or ecoregion (if the national
government determines the ecoregions for the
country)
• A “jurisdiction” can also be made up of more than
one administrative unit (eg, several districts or
provinces)
• Important to consider the management of the
REDD+ program, as the “jurisdictional proponent”
decides many aspects of the program, including
scope (RED, REDD, REDD+), pools to be included,
monitoring system details, etc.

8. Thank you…Questions?
Naomi Swickard
AFOLU Manager
VCS Association
nswickard@v-c-s.org