Climate Meeting in Copenhagen focus on Mitigation and REDD

December 13, 2009 by timbercommunity

Forest Day 3 in Copenhagen abstract: Carbon emissions from land-use change are estimated to account for one-fifth of current global carbon emissions. Reducing emissions from deforestationand forest degradation (REDD) has been promoted as an effective and efficient climate change mitigation option. Much of the debate has focused on the global architecture and how REDD+ can be included in a post-2012 climate agreement.
 

Now is the time to increase the focus on national and local levels where the forests are found. The success of REDD+ in reducing emissions will depend on tackling profound market and governance failures. REDD+ policies must strengthen the institutional alignment of economic actors and the public interest, a challenge made more difficult by the complexity of the issues behind deforestation and the fact that many causes are external to the forest sector.

• Can this really be done?
• How do we introduce a transitional change instead of incremental improvements?
• Are global players and mechanisms up to the task?
• What about the resistance in countries and local communities?

This subplenary will debate these controversial issues, seek answers to these questions and look to designing national REDD+
strategies that ensure climate-effective and cost-efficient reduction of carbon emissions with equitable impacts and co-benefits.

Moderator
Natasha Loder, The Economist

Panellists
Arild Angelsen, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Vicky Corpuz, Executive Director and Chair, United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous People
Sara S. Kendall, Vice President of Environment, Health and Safety, Weyerhaeuser Company
Agus Purnomo, Head of Secretariat, National Council on Climate Change, Indonesia
 
Co-host contacts
CIFOR: Markku Kanninen,
World Agroforestry Centre: Peter A. Minang,
 
Parallell learning events

Early REDD+ readiness experience provides a vision of what REDD+ country models could look like and how they could be rapidly scaled up. National REDD+ frameworks will need to reflect country circumstances, and find solutions for:
1) establishing inclusive national institutional arrangements
2) integrating REDD+ with development planning across sectors
3) designing monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems capable of monitoring biophysical and socio-economic variables. Policy issues include estimating demand for REDD+ reductions, and demonstrating workable country institutional arrangements to supply them.
Chair
Ken Andrasko, World Bank and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility 1
5.05 – 15.20 Early lessons from the FCPF: Inclusiveness, cross-sectoral cooperation and learning technical issues by doing Benoit Bosquet, World Bank and Forest Carbon Partnership
FacilityEarly REDD+ readiness experience provides a vision of what REDD+ country models could look like and how they could be rapidly scaled up. National REDD+ frameworks will need to reflect country circumstances, and find solutions for:
1) establishing inclusive national institutional arrangements
2) integrating REDD+ with development planning across sectors
3) designing monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems capable of monitoring biophysical and socio-economic variables. Policy issues include estimating demand for REDD+ reductions, and demonstrating workable country institutional arrangements to supply them. Chair Ken Andrasko, World Bank and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
15.05 – 15.20 Early lessons from the FCPF: Inclusiveness, cross-sectoral cooperation and learning technical issues by doing Benoit Bosquet, World Bank and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
15.20 – 15.35 Early lessons from the UN-REDD Programme: Getting initial readiness underway Tim Clairs, UN-REDD Programme
15.35 – 15.45 Democratic Republic of Congo’s REDD preparations: Balancing national capacity building and consultations with a Congo Basin regional technical approach Vincent Kasulu, Ministry of Forestry, D.R. Congo ForestDay 3 17
15.45 – 15.55 Targets, carbon stocks and deforestation reduction: Proposed benefit sharing in the Brazilian Amazon linking national and subnational targets Paolo Moutinho, Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Brazil
15.55 – 16.05 Scale of REDD financing available from the emerging US compliance market: Estimates and policy considerations Ruben Lubowski, Environmental Defense Fund