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Resume
This action’s point of departure is the substantial reductions in emissions planned by means of forest protection, as set out in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and/or (in Nicaragua) in the national climate strategy. The action seeks to support mainstreaming of Non-Carbon Benefits (NCBs) into these documents and to promote the role of forests, biodiversity and ecosystems in climate change adaptation and mitigation by recognising and placing values on NCBs. This will take place on the basis of the priorities of local communities by letting the communities formulate and implement pilot projects with the aim of protecting and improving NCBs for the local population, as well as to adapt the FSC’s new ecosystem services procedure (FSC-PRO-30-006) to local MRV (measurement, reporting and verification) of NCBs. The scalability and sustainability of expected outputs will be pursued by means of the FSC’s global approach, and will be measured by involving a “control group” of territories in Panama, where locals will not take part in identifying key local NCBs or in adapting the FSC ecosystem services procedure, but will simply use the MRV tool.