Funding to Civil Society Actors within the Climate and Forest Initiative, 2009
The funded projects are mainly preparations for the upcoming COP 15 meeting in Copenhagen in December this year, emphasizing advocacy and capacity building on different levels (from indigenous and forest peoples to country negotiators), in addition to demonstrational projects in selected "REDD-countries".
A new model has been tested for processing and assessing these applications, including a Panel of Technical Experts (with memmbers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Environment and Norad) having assessed the technical aspects of the applications. On the managerial level, the Civil Society Department in Norad has been in charge of this new funding scheme.
The primary objective of the Norwegian Government's climate policy is to play a part in establishing a global, binding, long-term post-2012 regime that will ensure deep enough cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions. Norway's goal is for the average rise in global temperature to be limited to no more than 2°C above the pre-industrial level with the help of such a regime. The Climate and Forest Initiative must give the greatest possible support to efforts to achieve this goal.
Promoting sustainable development and poverty reduction is an overriding objective of Norwegian foreign and development policy. It is therefore also an objective of the Climate and Forest Initiative, in addition to the climate-related goals listed below.
Furthermore, Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative has the following goals:
- To work towards the inclusion of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in a new international climate regime.
- To take early action to achieve cost-effective and verifiable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
- To promote the conservation of natural forests to maintain their carbon storage capacity.
The funding to civil society actors in 2009 is allocated as follows:
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Funding to Civil Society Actors within the International Climate and Forest Initiative, 2009 |
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Name: |
Allocation in NOK: |
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Amazon Conservation Association |
kr 3 000 000,00 |
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Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) |
kr 20 000 000,00 |
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Center for International Policy (CIP) / Avoided Deforestation Partners (ADP) |
kr 3 500 000,00 |
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Centre for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) |
kr 4 800 000,00 |
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Clinton Foundation |
kr 6 900 000,00 |
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Coalition for Rainforest Nations |
kr 3 500 000,00 |
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Conservation International |
kr 2 800 000,00 |
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Environmental Investigation Agency |
kr 2 000 000,00 |
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Fauna & Flora International |
kr 7 000 000,00 |
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Forest Peoples Programme |
kr 3 000 000,00 |
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Forest Trends & Katoomba Group |
kr 6 800 000,00 |
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Foundation for People and Community Development (FPCD) |
kr 1 400 000,00 |
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Global Witness |
kr 2 400 000,00 |
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International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) |
kr 4 000 000,00 |
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International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) & UMB |
kr 1 500 000,00 |
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International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) |
kr 5 000 000,00 |
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) |
kr 6 900 000,00 |
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IWGIA International Work Group for Indigenous Peoples |
kr 4 000 000,00 |
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Meridian Institute |
kr 9 995 000,00 |
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Norges Naturvernforbund/Regnskogsfondet |
kr 1 134 000,00 |
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Norsk Romsenter |
kr 1 500 000,00 |
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Overseas Development Institute (ODI) |
kr 1 373 000,00 |
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Rainforest Alliance, Inc |
kr 3 500 000,00 |
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Regional Community Forestry Training Centre (RECOFTC) |
kr 2 700 000,00 |
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Regnskogfondet |
kr 9 700 000,00 |
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Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) |
kr 6 800 000,00 |
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Snøball Film |
kr 1 150 000,00 |
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SUM - Centre for Development and Environment |
kr 700 000,00 |
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Tebtebba Foundation |
kr 6 000 000,00 |
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The Nature Conservancy (TNC) |
kr 5 000 000,00 |
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The Samdhana Institute |
kr 3 000 000,00 |
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The Woods Hole Research Center |
kr 8 000 000,00 |
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World Agrofrestry Centre - ICRAF |
kr 6 900 000,00 |
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World Resources Institute |
kr 4 500 000,00 |
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WWF International - Forest based Carbon Network Initiative |
kr 11 000 000,00 |
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WWF Norway |
kr 1 350 000,00 |
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TOTAL: |
kr 172 757 000,00 |
*REDD is the abbreviation for the work towards Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. Eligible countries for project support within this funding scheme was so-called "REDD-countries" - according to the UNREDD og The World Bank's lists. Within this funding scheme, Indonesia, Peru, Papua New Guinea og Vietnam are the countries in which most of the funded demonstrational projects are to be implemented.
To read more about the Norwegian Government's International Climate and Forest Initiative, please see: http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/md/Selected-topics/klima/the-government-of-norways-international-.html?id=548491