ICRAF sent a three-member training team late October this year to Hanoi to pass on practical know-hows of reducing carbon emissions through better land use planning to professionals from various institutions across Vietnam.
The training workshop on Land Use Planning for Low Emission Development Strategy (LUWES), which took place on October 22-26, was jointly held by the Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. It brought together professionals within the government, universities, research institutions and program developers.
The workshop offered a platform for participants to discuss how much emission can be avoided from land use planning and to share their ideas about how to improve land use in the local context. They were provided with skills to conduct analysis of land use change and advanced tools and approaches for developing their own low emission pathways.
ﾓWe have built together four emission mitigation scenarios,ﾔ said Sonya Dewi ﾖ one of the three experts from ICRAF SEA Regional Office. ﾓWe have seen big progress of the trainees,ﾔ she added.
The workshop is part of ICRAF Vietnamﾒs project entitled ﾓReducing Emission from All Land Usesﾔ (REALU). Initiated in 2009, the project aims to develop further methods and tools applicable for all transitions in land cover in regards to reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.
LUWES is a platform for developing a multiple stakeholder decision-making process to establish land use plans for sustainable development. It is expected to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-based activity while simultaneously maintaining economic growth. It can simulate emissions reduction scenarios within specific zones of a landscape, or across an entire landscape, in order to produce ex ante emissions reduction and opportunity cost forecasts.
The strategy also recognizes the impact of land use allocation policies and distribution on tenure and livelihood. LUWES can accommodate the integration process between multiple modalities of land-based emission reductions./.
