Community Development: The Front Line Of Climate Change Action

• Community development is a key component of BTRF’s multilayered Ecosystem approach.
• It takes the debate beyond helping communities adapt to climate change by significantly involving and empowering them in global efforts to combat it by sequestering carbon.
• The approach is consistent with the ‘Trade not Aid’ principle.
• The communities are positioned not as mere beneficiaries but given a ‘voice’ as active stakeholders with a full participatory share in project benefits and revenues.
• The new resources and livelihoods that result enable them to resume their role as custodians of the forests for the long-term prosperity of the people and planet.