Dimapur, Dec. 12 (EMN): Nagaland is set to launch the first of its kind REDD+ community-based carbon finance project to tackle climate change.
Towards this end, representatives of over 30 community conservation areas (CCA) in Zunheboto district on Monday consented to develop the carbon finance project in partnership with VNV Advisory Services and The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi (TERI) during a meeting held in Kohima, stated Ivan Zhimomi, a team leader of TVBCLN.
It stated that the Agriculture Production Commissioner (APC) of Nagaland, Y Kikheto Sema, inaugurated the meeting.
It mentioned that the carbon finance project would be conducted over a period of 20 years. The benefits would be passed on to the local communities as per the defined institutional mechanism. The project would help communities to develop livelihood opportunities, build capacities of the local people and protect forests for additional sequestration of carbon dioxide.
In addition, a book to understand various aspects of jhum or shifting cultivation titled “A tradition in transition: Understanding the role of shifting cultivation for sustainable development of Northeast India” was also inaugurated during the meeting.