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Welcoming remarks
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
- Ms. Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway
- Erik Solheim, Chair of OECD Development Assistance Committee and Executive Director Elect UN Environment
- Jon Lomøy, General Director of Norad
- Read biographies of the speakers
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07:45
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Plenary 1: REDD+ Post-Paris: National implementation
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objectives:
To gather ministerial-level officials and other high-level speakers from forest-rich developing countries to discuss implementation of REDD+ at national and sub-national levels in light of the agreement reached in Paris at COP21. The panel will focus on past, current, and likely future challenges in initiating and sustaining the transformational changes required to achieve REDD+ objectives, the roles of different stakeholder groups, and support needed from international partnerships and alliances.
The panel will include attention to the broad implications of the Paris agreement for REDD+ – including INDCs, accounting, transparency, market-based mechanisms, and finance – from the perspective of government leaders and other stakeholders from REDD+ countries.
Background:
Since REDD+ officially entered climate negotiations under the UNFCCC in 2007, more than 50 countries have initiated national REDD+ programs. In this context, some countries have also entered into bilateral and plurilateral partnership agreements for REDD+ finance.
With REDD+ endorsed by Article 5 of the climate agreement reached in Paris in December, and many countries including commitments to reduce emissions from land-use change in their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), attention is now focussed on national-level implementation.
Moderator: Frances Seymour, Center for Global Development
Speakers:
- Shiferaw Teklemariam, Minister of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, Ethiopia
- Paula Caballero, Senior Director for Environment and Natural Resources, World Bank Group
- Abdon Nababan, Secretary General of AMAN (Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of The Archipelago)
- Nazir Foead, Head of Peat Restoration Agency
- Pablo Vieira Samper, Vice Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia
- Read biographies of the speakers
Translation: Spanish, French, Portugese & Bahasa
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09:00
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Break
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09:30
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Plenary 2: REDD+ Post-Paris: International partnerships and alliances
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To gather ministerial-level officials and other high-level speakers from donor countries and global policy arenas to discuss how international alliances and partnerships can support national-level implementation of REDD+ in forest-rich countries.
The panel will reflect on how official climate finance, private sector initiatives, and global civil society networks have contributed to the progress of REDD+ to date, and the prospects for enhanced collaboration in the post-Paris context. The panel will include attention to the broad implications of the Paris agreement for REDD+ – including INDCs, accounting, transparency, market-based mechanisms, and finance – from the perspective of government leaders from donor countries and other stakeholders participating in global policy arenas.
Background:
Initial enthusiasm for REDD+ was dampened by the failure to reach a global agreement in Copenhagen in 2009, and the resulting shortfall in expected large-scale finance. But in recent years, there has been an uptick in bilateral financial commitments, and a cascade of complementary “no deforestation” commitments from the private sector. The climate agreement reached in Paris endorsed REDD+, acknowledged the roles of non-government actors, and opened the door to Internationally Transferred Mitigation Options.
Moderator: Dominic Waughray, World Economic Forum
Speakers:
- Thomas Silberhorn, Parliamentary State Secretary, Germany
- Hindou Ibrahim, Itnt. Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change
- Jonathan Horrell, Mondalez
- Naoko Ishi, CEO of Global Environment Facility
- Victor Manuel Noriega Reategui, Governor, San Martin, Peru
- Read biographies of the speakers
Translation: Spanish, French, Portugese & Bahasa
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10:45
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Lunch
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Brazil: Can REDD+ contribute to sustaining the miracle into a second decade?
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Indonesia: Can business-as-usual deforestation be confronted and reversed?
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REDD+ in the Green Economy: Transforming the forest sector in Ethiopia and Liberia
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12:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 1A
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To explore the potential for transformational change in land-use systems, and how different stakeholders, policy approaches, and financing streams can come together to achieve reductions in emissions from deforestation, with particular reference to the case of Brazil.
Background:
Over the course of the last decade, Brazil has succeeded in reducing the rate of deforestation in the Amazon by some 80 percent. Law enforcement, fiscal incentives, private sector initiatives, civil society efforts, and international support all contributed to the success. However, some observers are concerned that new initiatives and partnerships will be necessary to address changing drivers of deforestation, and that the current political and economic crises threaten to undermine progress. The federal government has promulgated a national REDD+ strategy, but questions remain regarding how this strategy relates to state-level initiatives, the INDC submitted to COP21 in Paris, roles for the private sector and civil society, and the potential for international cooperation.
Moderator: Tasso Azevedo – Coordinator, SEEG Network and MapBiomas; former Director General of the Brazilian Forestry Service
Panelists:
- Carlos Rittl, Climate Observatory
- Adriana Ramos, Instituto Socioambiental
- Alberto Tavares, CEO of Environmental Services Development Company of Acre
- Roberto Waack, Chairman of Amata
- Thelma Krug, Ministry of the Environment
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Portuguese & Spanish
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Press the + to the right for more about session 1B
Room: Scandinavia Scene
Objective:
To explore the potential for transformational change in land-use systems, and how different stakeholders, policy approaches, and financing streams can come together to achieve reductions in emissions from deforestation, with particular reference to the case of Indonesia.
Background:
Since Indonesia stepped forward in 2009 as the first developing country to announce voluntary emission reduction targets, a series of initiatives have been rolled out by government and non-government actors to reduce the country’s high rate of deforestation and peatland conversion. But so far, the forces of business-as-usual have resisted change, as evidenced by the catastrophic fires that burned more than 2 million hectares in late 2015. President Joko Widodo is responding with new policies and institutional arrangements, including establishment of a new Peatland Restoration Agency. Meanwhile, private sector initiatives such as the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge have been met with controversy, and civil society has been frustrated with the slow pace of policy implementation, e.g., of the Constitutional Court decision opening the door to recognition of indigenous territories within the forest estate.
Moderator: Rezal Kusumaatmadja – P.T. Rimba Makmur Utama; Katingan REDD+ project in Central Kalimantan
Panelists:
- Nazir Foead, Head, Peat Restoration Agency
- Nur Masripatin, Director of Climate Change, Ministry of Environment and Forests
- Mina Setra, AMAN (Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of The Archipelago)
- Tony Wenas, President Director in APRIL Group
- Alex Noerdin, Governor, Provincial Government South Sumatera
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Bahasa & Spanish
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Press the + to the right for more about session 1C
Room: Telemark
Objective:
To show how REDD+ and forests can be integrated in green economy development. REDD+ will only make sense if it is a part of a political narrative on economic growth, operating closely with other climate change mitigation and adaptation goals and programs.
Background:
Ethiopia's ambition is to become a middle income country by 2025 while keeping emissions at a 2010 level. Ethiopia aims to reduce deforestation, restore and rehabilitate forest ecosystems and establish forest plantations that can cover the country's demand for timber. Increasing the role of the forest sector in the national economy is important to reach development targets and deliver on climate ambitions. Liberia has embarked on a development path based on sustainable management of natural forests, restoring degraded land and developing Liberia's agricultural sector through enhancing sustainable agricultural management, and greening supply chains. As a front runner for the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 Palm Oil Initiative, Liberia has developed National Principles and Actions for Palm Oil development, where companies will commit to avoiding high carbon stock areas and create deforestation free value chains.
Moderator: Selam Kidane Abebe, Legal Advisor to the Africa Group of negotiators for UNFCCC
Panelists:
- Minister Shiferaw Teklemarian, Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, Ethiopia
- Hon. Harrison S. Karnwea, Head of Forest Development Agency, Liberia
- Yitebitu Moges, National REDD+ Coordinator in Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, Ethiopia
- Dr. Simon Lord, Chief Sustainability Office, Sime Darby
- Mulugeta Kassaye, Farm Africa
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: French
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12:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 1A
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To explore the potential for transformational change in land-use systems, and how different stakeholders, policy approaches, and financing streams can come together to achieve reductions in emissions from deforestation, with particular reference to the case of Brazil.
Background:
Over the course of the last decade, Brazil has succeeded in reducing the rate of deforestation in the Amazon by some 80 percent. Law enforcement, fiscal incentives, private sector initiatives, civil society efforts, and international support all contributed to the success. However, some observers are concerned that new initiatives and partnerships will be necessary to address changing drivers of deforestation, and that the current political and economic crises threaten to undermine progress. The federal government has promulgated a national REDD+ strategy, but questions remain regarding how this strategy relates to state-level initiatives, the INDC submitted to COP21 in Paris, roles for the private sector and civil society, and the potential for international cooperation.
Moderator: Tasso Azevedo – Coordinator, SEEG Network and MapBiomas; former Director General of the Brazilian Forestry Service
Panelists:
- Carlos Rittl, Climate Observatory
- Adriana Ramos, Instituto Socioambiental
- Alberto Tavares, CEO of Environmental Services Development Company of Acre
- Roberto Waack, Chairman of Amata
- Thelma Krug, Ministry of the Environment
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Portuguese & Spanish
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12:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 1B
Room: Scandinavia Scene
Objective:
To explore the potential for transformational change in land-use systems, and how different stakeholders, policy approaches, and financing streams can come together to achieve reductions in emissions from deforestation, with particular reference to the case of Indonesia.
Background:
Since Indonesia stepped forward in 2009 as the first developing country to announce voluntary emission reduction targets, a series of initiatives have been rolled out by government and non-government actors to reduce the country’s high rate of deforestation and peatland conversion. But so far, the forces of business-as-usual have resisted change, as evidenced by the catastrophic fires that burned more than 2 million hectares in late 2015. President Joko Widodo is responding with new policies and institutional arrangements, including establishment of a new Peatland Restoration Agency. Meanwhile, private sector initiatives such as the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge have been met with controversy, and civil society has been frustrated with the slow pace of policy implementation, e.g., of the Constitutional Court decision opening the door to recognition of indigenous territories within the forest estate.
Moderator: Rezal Kusumaatmadja – P.T. Rimba Makmur Utama; Katingan REDD+ project in Central Kalimantan
Panelists:
- Nazir Foead, Head, Peat Restoration Agency
- Nur Masripatin, Director of Climate Change, Ministry of Environment and Forests
- Mina Setra, AMAN (Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of The Archipelago)
- Tony Wenas, President Director in APRIL Group
- Alex Noerdin, Governor, Provincial Government South Sumatera
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Bahasa & Spanish
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12:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 1C
Room: Telemark
Objective:
To show how REDD+ and forests can be integrated in green economy development. REDD+ will only make sense if it is a part of a political narrative on economic growth, operating closely with other climate change mitigation and adaptation goals and programs.
Background:
Ethiopia's ambition is to become a middle income country by 2025 while keeping emissions at a 2010 level. Ethiopia aims to reduce deforestation, restore and rehabilitate forest ecosystems and establish forest plantations that can cover the country's demand for timber. Increasing the role of the forest sector in the national economy is important to reach development targets and deliver on climate ambitions. Liberia has embarked on a development path based on sustainable management of natural forests, restoring degraded land and developing Liberia's agricultural sector through enhancing sustainable agricultural management, and greening supply chains. As a front runner for the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 Palm Oil Initiative, Liberia has developed National Principles and Actions for Palm Oil development, where companies will commit to avoiding high carbon stock areas and create deforestation free value chains.
Moderator: Selam Kidane Abebe, Legal Advisor to the Africa Group of negotiators for UNFCCC
Panelists:
- Minister Shiferaw Teklemarian, Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, Ethiopia
- Hon. Harrison S. Karnwea, Head of Forest Development Agency, Liberia
- Yitebitu Moges, National REDD+ Coordinator in Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, Ethiopia
- Dr. Simon Lord, Chief Sustainability Office, Sime Darby
- Mulugeta Kassaye, Farm Africa
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: French
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13:30
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Coffee break
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Domestic and international options for results-based finance: Reasons for optimism?
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REDD+ and Peace Processes: How can they be mutually supportive?
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Advancing Indigenous People’s Rights through REDD+: Experiences from Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Guyana
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14:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 2A
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To understand the current state-of-play with respect to the current availability and future prospects for generating significant results-based finance from REDD+ from public and private international sources, as well as the potential for mobilizing domestic resources.
Background:
Participants in the early development of REDD+ assumed that large-scale, results-based (“Phase 3”) finance would be generated by global demand for reduced emissions from deforestation. Following the failure to achieve a global climate agreement in Copenhagen in 2009, REDD+ finance has been limited to allocations from development aid budgets and the voluntary carbon market. With the conclusion of a global agreement in Paris endorsing REDD+, how is the landscape of REDD+ finance changing? What new opportunities should REDD+ proponents pursue in the context of national policy arenas in donor countries and international funding mechanisms, and within the fiscal space of forest-rich countries themselves?
Moderator: Smita Nakhooda, Overseas Development Institute
Panelists:
- Christiane Ehringhaus, KfW REDD Early Movers program
- Swapan Mehra, Iora Ecological Solutions, India; adviser to Indian Finance Commission
- Michael Wolosin, Climate Advisers
- Tao Wang, Director of Mitigation and Adaptation, Green Climate Fund
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Bahasa & French
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Press the + to the right for more about session 2B
Room: Scandinavia Scene
Objective:
To explore (i) how to ensure reduced deforestation in a post-conflict scenario, (ii) how REDD+ can be effective in a post-conflict scenario and (iii) how to ensure that REDD+ is conflict-sensitive.
Background:
Many of high forested countries, and many of NICFI partner countries are to some degree fragile states, or at different stages of conflict/ post-conflict. Revenues from timber and other natural resources often play an important role in the conflicts. A better understanding of post-conflict dynamics and the connections between conflict and natural resource management may help REDD+ programs succeed in difficult surroundings, and may ensure that REDD+ programs to not hamper fragile peace processes.
Moderator: Kerstin Canby, Forest Trends
Panelists:
- Pablo Vieira Samper, Vice Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia
- Silas Siakor, Goldman Award for the Environment Winner, Liberia
- Saw Frankie Abreu, Trip Net, civil society, Karen state, Myanmar
- Art Blundell, former Chair UN Panel of Experts on Liberia
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Spanish
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Press the + to the right for more about session 2C
Room: Telemark
Objective:
To (i) explore how REDD+ can be used to advance the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities and (ii) identify critical gaps in the existing REDD+ architecture relevant to IP and local community rights and to reducing the risk of conflict at all levels.
Background:
Most of the world’s last remaining forests areas are indigenous territories. The Global Analysis of Tropical Forest Carbon in Indigenous Territories (WHRC and EDF) revealed that forests in indigenous territories in the Amazon Basin, Mesoamerica, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Indonesia contain more than 20% of the aboveground carbon stored in all the world’s tropical forests. Whilst these communities already participate in protecting their forests and mitigating climate change they still have no clear land rights. Nearly half of the forest carbon managed by indigenous peoples and local communities in these regions is located in territories lacking official recognition. These territories face multiple threats that they are unable to counter if their rights are not recognized. This puts at risk 76.4 GtCO2 - equivalent to 1.5 times the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2014.
Moderator: Joan Carling, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
Panelists:
- Per Fredrik Pharo, Special Adviser, Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment
- Abdon Nababan, Secretary General of AMAN (Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of The Archipelago)
- Clemencia Herrera Nemerayema, Indigenous Leader, OPIAC
- Laura George, Amerindian Peoples Association
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Spanish & Portuguese
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14:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 2A
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To understand the current state-of-play with respect to the current availability and future prospects for generating significant results-based finance from REDD+ from public and private international sources, as well as the potential for mobilizing domestic resources.
Background:
Participants in the early development of REDD+ assumed that large-scale, results-based (“Phase 3”) finance would be generated by global demand for reduced emissions from deforestation. Following the failure to achieve a global climate agreement in Copenhagen in 2009, REDD+ finance has been limited to allocations from development aid budgets and the voluntary carbon market. With the conclusion of a global agreement in Paris endorsing REDD+, how is the landscape of REDD+ finance changing? What new opportunities should REDD+ proponents pursue in the context of national policy arenas in donor countries and international funding mechanisms, and within the fiscal space of forest-rich countries themselves?
Moderator: Smita Nakhooda, Overseas Development Institute
Panelists:
- Christiane Ehringhaus, KfW REDD Early Movers program
- Swapan Mehra, Iora Ecological Solutions, India; adviser to Indian Finance Commission
- Michael Wolosin, Climate Advisers
- Tao Wang, Director of Mitigation and Adaptation, Green Climate Fund
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Bahasa & French
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14:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 2B
Room: Scandinavia Scene
Objective:
To explore (i) how to ensure reduced deforestation in a post-conflict scenario, (ii) how REDD+ can be effective in a post-conflict scenario and (iii) how to ensure that REDD+ is conflict-sensitive.
Background:
Many of high forested countries, and many of NICFI partner countries are to some degree fragile states, or at different stages of conflict/ post-conflict. Revenues from timber and other natural resources often play an important role in the conflicts. A better understanding of post-conflict dynamics and the connections between conflict and natural resource management may help REDD+ programs succeed in difficult surroundings, and may ensure that REDD+ programs to not hamper fragile peace processes.
Moderator: Kerstin Canby, Forest Trends
Panelists:
- Pablo Vieira Samper, Vice Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia
- Silas Siakor, Goldman Award for the Environment Winner, Liberia
- Saw Frankie Abreu, Trip Net, civil society, Karen state, Myanmar
- Art Blundell, former Chair UN Panel of Experts on Liberia
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Spanish
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14:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 2C
Room: Telemark
Objective:
To (i) explore how REDD+ can be used to advance the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities and (ii) identify critical gaps in the existing REDD+ architecture relevant to IP and local community rights and to reducing the risk of conflict at all levels.
Background:
Most of the world’s last remaining forests areas are indigenous territories. The Global Analysis of Tropical Forest Carbon in Indigenous Territories (WHRC and EDF) revealed that forests in indigenous territories in the Amazon Basin, Mesoamerica, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Indonesia contain more than 20% of the aboveground carbon stored in all the world’s tropical forests. Whilst these communities already participate in protecting their forests and mitigating climate change they still have no clear land rights. Nearly half of the forest carbon managed by indigenous peoples and local communities in these regions is located in territories lacking official recognition. These territories face multiple threats that they are unable to counter if their rights are not recognized. This puts at risk 76.4 GtCO2 - equivalent to 1.5 times the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2014.
Moderator: Joan Carling, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
Panelists:
- Per Fredrik Pharo, Special Adviser, Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment
- Abdon Nababan, Secretary General of AMAN (Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of The Archipelago)
- Clemencia Herrera Nemerayema, Indigenous Leader, OPIAC
- Laura George, Amerindian Peoples Association
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Spanish & Portuguese
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15:30
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End of plenary sessions on Day 1
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REDD+ in the Mayan region of Mexico: Can subnational programs be effectively linked with national results?
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Kalimantan, Indonesia: What are the prospects for transformational change in land-use?
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Mai Ndombe, DRC: Progressing toward payment for performance
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07:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 3A
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To explore the challenges in integrating subnational jurisdictional REDD+ programs within national frameworks, with concrete examples from REDD+ arrangements in México (Yucatan and Chiapas) and how these states are leading bottom-up innovations.
Background:
In the last few years, subnational jurisdictions have made strides in positioning themselves as key players in REDD+ design and implementation in many countries of the world. Jurisdictional subnational REDD+ programs have advanced in many regions faster than those at national level. However, despite this progress and ambition at the subnational level, there remains the need to integrate the programs into national frameworks and establish the institutional mechanisms to vertically align policies, finance and monitoring. Mexican jurisdictions have made important progress towards finding solutions to these critical aspects by designing institutions and creating teams to coordinate with national levels of government and by actively participating in the design of the emissions reduction initiative for the Forests Carbon Partnership Facility.
The three states of the Yucatan Peninsula (Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo) have developed a regional partnership to reduce the cost of managing REDD+ processes and have updated and aligned policies and legal framework in each state. Furthermore, they have identified investment areas and are ready for the implementation phase. Likewise, Chiapas State has developed a jurisdictional program that includes 4 sub regions. In addition, it is creating innovative agreements with several branches of government including planning, rural development, and environment to align territorial policies and sector investments in each region. These approaches will contribute to the results of the FCPF Mexican program and will achieve additional reductions. Questions remain on the uncertainty of the source of finance and how jurisdictional performance will be evaluated and recognized.
Moderator: Rosa Ma Vidal, Governors´ Climate and Forests Fund.
Panelists:
- Rane G. Cortez, Chief of Party. Mexico REDD Program
- Jorge Fernandez, CONAFOR, Manager of Planning and Evaluation
- Ricardo Hernandez Sanchez, Secretary of Forestry. Chiapas State (tbc)
- Efraim Acosta Lugo, Programs Director Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan A.C. & GCF-Task Force Coordinator in the Yucatan Peninsula
- Werner L. Kornexl, World Bank
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Spanish
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Press the + to the right for more about session 3B
Room: Scandinavia Scene
Objective:
To explore how REDD+ can contribute to transforming a high-deforestation, high land-use intensive economy into a prosperous, sustainable, low-deforestation economy.
Background:
Some 50 % of the East Kalimantan province in the Indonesian Borneo is still covered by forests. 75 % of its economy is land-use intensive: agriculture, palm oil, logging, coal, oil and gas. Deforestation has been dramatic the last decades – some 7 mill ha. Some 1.4 mill ha are considered degraded lands – which potentially could be used for plantations.
In recent years, East Kalimantan has developed plans to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, through measures to achieve zero burning of forests and peat; reduced impact logging; replanting and rehabilitation of degraded forests and peatlands; and using degraded areas for agriculture purposes.
The main economic drivers of East Kalimantan are today the very same causes of deforestation and forest and peat degradation. Still, many experts would argue it is possible for East Kalimantan to protect its remaining forests and peatland – while at the same time continue growing the economy for the benefit of its citizens. How to do it in practice?
Moderator: Timothy Jessup, Global Green Growth Institute
Panelists:
- Riza Indra Riadi,Province of East Kalimantan
- Herlina Hartanto, The Nature Conservancy, Indonesia
- Daddy Ruhiyat, Head of the provincial climate change council (DD PI)
- Aida Greenbury, APP
- Tiza Mafira, Analyst, Climate Policy Initiative
- Read biographies of the panelists
Special audience member:
- Cornelis Cornelis, Governor, Provincial Government of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Translation: Bahasa & Portuguese
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Press the + to the right for more about session 3C
Room: Telemark
Objective:
To explore progress towards emission reduction programmes in Africa using Mai Ndombe in DRC as an example.
Background:
The Government of DRC set up the Mai Ndombe Emission Reduction (ER) program as a first step in implementing the REDD+ strategy at jurisdictional level, as well as model for green development in the Congo Basin. The program aims to provide alternatives and rewards for performance in emission reductions, while addressing the challenges of climate change, poverty reduction, natural resources conservation and the protection of biodiversity in the Mai Ndombe province. It is targeting 29MtCO2 equivalent in ERs by 2020 within a province that currently holds society organizations, private sector, donors and multi-lateral technical support partners have been working on the project.
While the Mai Ndombe programme has not yet reached ER phase, several activities have been going on for a number of years. This session would review progress; potentials and challenges of the processes so far, with a focus on looking at what lessons can be learnt from complex partnerships in ER programmes in the context of DRC and Africa at large.
Moderator: Peter A Minang, World Agroforestry Centre-ICRAF
Panelists:
- Flory Batamba, WWF DRC
- Ellysar Baroudy, BioCarbon Fund, World Bank Group
- Mr Guy Kajemba, Civil Society and GTCR
- Jeremy Freund, Wildlife Works Carbon
- Victor Kabengele Wa Kadilu, MECNT (Gov. of DRC) and National REDD Coordinator
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: French & Spanish
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07:00
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Press the + to the right for more about session 3A
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To explore the challenges in integrating subnational jurisdictional REDD+ programs within national frameworks, with concrete examples from REDD+ arrangements in México (Yucatan and Chiapas) and how these states are leading bottom-up innovations.
Background:
In the last few years, subnational jurisdictions have made strides in positioning themselves as key players in REDD+ design and implementation in many countries of the world. Jurisdictional subnational REDD+ programs have advanced in many regions faster than those at national level. However, despite this progress and ambition at the subnational level, there remains the need to integrate the programs into national frameworks and establish the institutional mechanisms to vertically align policies, finance and monitoring. Mexican jurisdictions have made important progress towards finding solutions to these critical aspects by designing institutions and creating teams to coordinate with national levels of government and by actively participating in the design of the emissions reduction initiative for the Forests Carbon Partnership Facility.
The three states of the Yucatan Peninsula (Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo) have developed a regional partnership to reduce the cost of managing REDD+ processes and have updated and aligned policies and legal framework in each state. Furthermore, they have identified investment areas and are ready for the implementation phase. Likewise, Chiapas State has developed a jurisdictional program that includes 4 sub regions. In addition, it is creating innovative agreements with several branches of government including planning, rural development, and environment to align territorial policies and sector investments in each region. These approaches will contribute to the results of the FCPF Mexican program and will achieve additional reductions. Questions remain on the uncertainty of the source of finance and how jurisdictional performance will be evaluated and recognized.
Moderator: Rosa Ma Vidal, Governors´ Climate and Forests Fund.
Panelists:
- Rane G. Cortez, Chief of Party. Mexico REDD Program
- Jorge Fernandez, CONAFOR, Manager of Planning and Evaluation
- Ricardo Hernandez Sanchez, Secretary of Forestry. Chiapas State (tbc)
- Efraim Acosta Lugo, Programs Director Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan A.C. & GCF-Task Force Coordinator in the Yucatan Peninsula
- Werner L. Kornexl, World Bank
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Spanish
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Press the + to the right for more about session 3B
Room: Scandinavia Scene
Objective:
To explore how REDD+ can contribute to transforming a high-deforestation, high land-use intensive economy into a prosperous, sustainable, low-deforestation economy.
Background:
Some 50 % of the East Kalimantan province in the Indonesian Borneo is still covered by forests. 75 % of its economy is land-use intensive: agriculture, palm oil, logging, coal, oil and gas. Deforestation has been dramatic the last decades – some 7 mill ha. Some 1.4 mill ha are considered degraded lands – which potentially could be used for plantations.
In recent years, East Kalimantan has developed plans to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, through measures to achieve zero burning of forests and peat; reduced impact logging; replanting and rehabilitation of degraded forests and peatlands; and using degraded areas for agriculture purposes.
The main economic drivers of East Kalimantan are today the very same causes of deforestation and forest and peat degradation. Still, many experts would argue it is possible for East Kalimantan to protect its remaining forests and peatland – while at the same time continue growing the economy for the benefit of its citizens. How to do it in practice?
Moderator: Timothy Jessup, Global Green Growth Institute
Panelists:
- Riza Indra Riadi,Province of East Kalimantan
- Herlina Hartanto, The Nature Conservancy, Indonesia
- Daddy Ruhiyat, Head of the provincial climate change council (DD PI)
- Aida Greenbury, APP
- Tiza Mafira, Analyst, Climate Policy Initiative
- Read biographies of the panelists
Special audience member:
- Cornelis Cornelis, Governor, Provincial Government of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Translation: Bahasa & Portuguese
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Press the + to the right for more about session 3C
Room: Telemark
Objective:
To explore progress towards emission reduction programmes in Africa using Mai Ndombe in DRC as an example.
Background:
The Government of DRC set up the Mai Ndombe Emission Reduction (ER) program as a first step in implementing the REDD+ strategy at jurisdictional level, as well as model for green development in the Congo Basin. The program aims to provide alternatives and rewards for performance in emission reductions, while addressing the challenges of climate change, poverty reduction, natural resources conservation and the protection of biodiversity in the Mai Ndombe province. It is targeting 29MtCO2 equivalent in ERs by 2020 within a province that currently holds society organizations, private sector, donors and multi-lateral technical support partners have been working on the project.
While the Mai Ndombe programme has not yet reached ER phase, several activities have been going on for a number of years. This session would review progress; potentials and challenges of the processes so far, with a focus on looking at what lessons can be learnt from complex partnerships in ER programmes in the context of DRC and Africa at large.
Moderator: Peter A Minang, World Agroforestry Centre-ICRAF
Panelists:
- Flory Batamba, WWF DRC
- Ellysar Baroudy, BioCarbon Fund, World Bank Group
- Mr Guy Kajemba, Civil Society and GTCR
- Jeremy Freund, Wildlife Works Carbon
- Victor Kabengele Wa Kadilu, MECNT (Gov. of DRC) and National REDD Coordinator
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: French & Spanish
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Break
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Lessons from place-based initiatives: Finance, tenure, gender and linkages to national programs
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Jurisdictional implementation of supply chain commitments
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Practical Tools for Monitoring and Implementation
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Press the + to the right for more about session 4A
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To explore the landscape of REDD+ projects globally and draw on specific examples for lessons that can help move REDD+ implementation forward.
Background:
REDD+ is currently being tested and demonstrated several places around the world – with over 300 sub-national level activities recorded in more than 50 countries, with the hope that lessons can be learnt and concepts eventually scaled up to national level. The scale of these initiatives, demonstrations and pilots vary, some at forest management unit level, some at jurisdictional levels (district, province, state) and others. The contexts, path dependency manifestations, speed at which progress is made, the dynamics and lessons learnt are unique in each of these places depending on the knowledge, resources and history of the project areas. Yet, trends and generic lessons can be drawn on key REDD+ challenges such as finance, tenure, MRV, safeguards, enhancing and valuing non-carbon benefits, benefit sharing and others. The discussions in this session will explore the landscape of REDD+ projects globally and draw on specific examples for lessons that can help move REDD+ implementation forward.
Moderator: Andy White, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
Panelists:
- Amy Duchelle, CIFOR
- Mike Korchinsky, Kasigau Corridor REDD+ Project and Wildlife Works Carbon
- Jorge Torres, Ministry of Environment, Peru
- Ly Thi Minh Hai, SNV Vietnam
- Isilda Nhantumbo, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
- Read biographies of the panelists
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Translation: Spanish
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Room: Scandinavia Scene
Objective:
To analyze the potential for establishing jurisdictional implementation of supply chain commitments, and discuss the opportunities for global and local companies to engage in partnerships with governments and civil society in tropical regions as a mean to accelerate the achievement of results in reducing deforestation.
Background:
80% of tropical deforestation is caused by agriculture, and commodities production is a major driver. The suppliers of beef, palm oil, soy, sugar, cacao, coffee and timber to the world are articulated in complex but recognizable economical chains. These supply chains include grassroots producers, local industries, distributers, exporters and multinational companies. 109 companies are signatories of the New York Declaration on Forests, and many have committed to zero deforestation by 2020. The Consumer Goods Forum has promoted that its 400 members adopt sustainable practices, and zero deforestation is one of the most important indicators for those companies that use commodities in their products. In Paris in December 2015, several leading companies pledged to prioritize sourcing from jurisdictions making progress toward reducing deforestation.
In order to implement commitments and attract other companies to follow that path it is important to develop agreements between private sector and public entities, finding more efficient ways to promote rural development and also increasing the income and living standards of smallholders and producers. These changes require that producers learn new sustainable practices and implement them at large scale. It also requires new positive incentives to allow for such transformations, the intervention of governments can provide an enabling environment for rapid adoption of new practices and can reduce the cost for technical assistance. Partnerships including jurisdictions, companies and local stakeholders, such as civil society, agriculture ministries, grassroots organizations of producers, can jointly accelerate the transformation in the landscapes.
The panel will analyze the progress in implementing supply chain commitments at the scale of sub-national jurisdictions, the obstacles and opportunities of establishing agreements among stakeholders, lessons from FLEGT, and linkages to REDD+.
Moderator: Daniel Nepstad, Earth Innovation Institute
Panelists:
- Tan Lin, Executive President, Hopefull Group. China Soy Industries
- Melissa Miners, Global Communications Unilever
- Jussi Vitanen, Director of the FLEGT & REDD Facilities, European Forest Institute
- Elaine Corsini, Technical Adviser - Office of Strategic Affairs
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Spanish & Bahasa
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Room: Telemark
Objective:
To bring together practitioners to reflect on the conditions that are necessary to ensure that new data and technology tools support improved decision-making for forests and engender innovative partnerships (community-NGO-government-private sector) to use data to solve problems.
Background:
Growing international attention on the issue of deforestation demands accurate, precise, and consistent systems for monitoring forest changes at appropriate scales. However, the vastness and remoteness of forests present a significant challenge to producing good information in a timely matter.
Remote sensing, drones, and mobile technologies have the potential to revolutionize forest monitoring, management and enforcement. Technology is increasingly seen as a tool to efficiently monitor the effectiveness of policies from national mandates such as Indonesia’s Forest Licensing Moratorium, to voluntary “zero deforestation” commitments, to REDD+ implementation. Due to improvements in internet connectivity and open data, more stakeholders than ever have access to information that could be used to improve the management and protection of forest resources around the world.
But data alone is not sufficient for change. This panel will focus on the enabling conditions that allow decision-makers to leverage new data and technology tools to address their concerns. This panel will draw on specific examples of current systems for monitoring forest changes, their policy applications, and advancements anticipated for the future. Speakers will explore the challenges and limitations of technology to improve land-use planning, implement REDD+ schemes, protect rights of local communities, monitor illegal logging, and link with other applications. Speakers represent a diversity of geographies, project scales, and tools.
The moderator will give a brief summary of recent technological innovations and offer a taxonomy of existing “cool tools” for forest monitoring.
Moderator: Rachael Petersen, Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute
Panelists:
- Tasso Azevedo, Coordinator, SEEG Network and MapBiomas; former Director General of the Brazilian Forestry Service
- Nirarta “Koni” Samadhi, WRI Indonesia
- Pradeepa Bholanath, Head of Planning and Development, Guyana Forestry Commission
- Rhett Butler, Mongabay
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: French & Portuguese
Related:
NASA: How a new satelite tool spots deforestation
Mongabay Wildtech
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09:05
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Press the + to the right for more about session 4A
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To explore the landscape of REDD+ projects globally and draw on specific examples for lessons that can help move REDD+ implementation forward.
Background:
REDD+ is currently being tested and demonstrated several places around the world – with over 300 sub-national level activities recorded in more than 50 countries, with the hope that lessons can be learnt and concepts eventually scaled up to national level. The scale of these initiatives, demonstrations and pilots vary, some at forest management unit level, some at jurisdictional levels (district, province, state) and others. The contexts, path dependency manifestations, speed at which progress is made, the dynamics and lessons learnt are unique in each of these places depending on the knowledge, resources and history of the project areas. Yet, trends and generic lessons can be drawn on key REDD+ challenges such as finance, tenure, MRV, safeguards, enhancing and valuing non-carbon benefits, benefit sharing and others. The discussions in this session will explore the landscape of REDD+ projects globally and draw on specific examples for lessons that can help move REDD+ implementation forward.
Moderator: Andy White, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
Panelists:
- Amy Duchelle, CIFOR
- Mike Korchinsky, Kasigau Corridor REDD+ Project and Wildlife Works Carbon
- Jorge Torres, Ministry of Environment, Peru
- Ly Thi Minh Hai, SNV Vietnam
- Isilda Nhantumbo, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
- Read biographies of the panelists
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Translation: Spanish
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09:05
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Press the + to the right for more about session 4B
Room: Scandinavia Scene
Objective:
To analyze the potential for establishing jurisdictional implementation of supply chain commitments, and discuss the opportunities for global and local companies to engage in partnerships with governments and civil society in tropical regions as a mean to accelerate the achievement of results in reducing deforestation.
Background:
80% of tropical deforestation is caused by agriculture, and commodities production is a major driver. The suppliers of beef, palm oil, soy, sugar, cacao, coffee and timber to the world are articulated in complex but recognizable economical chains. These supply chains include grassroots producers, local industries, distributers, exporters and multinational companies. 109 companies are signatories of the New York Declaration on Forests, and many have committed to zero deforestation by 2020. The Consumer Goods Forum has promoted that its 400 members adopt sustainable practices, and zero deforestation is one of the most important indicators for those companies that use commodities in their products. In Paris in December 2015, several leading companies pledged to prioritize sourcing from jurisdictions making progress toward reducing deforestation.
In order to implement commitments and attract other companies to follow that path it is important to develop agreements between private sector and public entities, finding more efficient ways to promote rural development and also increasing the income and living standards of smallholders and producers. These changes require that producers learn new sustainable practices and implement them at large scale. It also requires new positive incentives to allow for such transformations, the intervention of governments can provide an enabling environment for rapid adoption of new practices and can reduce the cost for technical assistance. Partnerships including jurisdictions, companies and local stakeholders, such as civil society, agriculture ministries, grassroots organizations of producers, can jointly accelerate the transformation in the landscapes.
The panel will analyze the progress in implementing supply chain commitments at the scale of sub-national jurisdictions, the obstacles and opportunities of establishing agreements among stakeholders, lessons from FLEGT, and linkages to REDD+.
Moderator: Daniel Nepstad, Earth Innovation Institute
Panelists:
- Tan Lin, Executive President, Hopefull Group. China Soy Industries
- Melissa Miners, Global Communications Unilever
- Jussi Vitanen, Director of the FLEGT & REDD Facilities, European Forest Institute
- Elaine Corsini, Technical Adviser - Office of Strategic Affairs
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: Spanish & Bahasa
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09:05
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Press the + to the right for more about session 4C
Room: Telemark
Objective:
To bring together practitioners to reflect on the conditions that are necessary to ensure that new data and technology tools support improved decision-making for forests and engender innovative partnerships (community-NGO-government-private sector) to use data to solve problems.
Background:
Growing international attention on the issue of deforestation demands accurate, precise, and consistent systems for monitoring forest changes at appropriate scales. However, the vastness and remoteness of forests present a significant challenge to producing good information in a timely matter.
Remote sensing, drones, and mobile technologies have the potential to revolutionize forest monitoring, management and enforcement. Technology is increasingly seen as a tool to efficiently monitor the effectiveness of policies from national mandates such as Indonesia’s Forest Licensing Moratorium, to voluntary “zero deforestation” commitments, to REDD+ implementation. Due to improvements in internet connectivity and open data, more stakeholders than ever have access to information that could be used to improve the management and protection of forest resources around the world.
But data alone is not sufficient for change. This panel will focus on the enabling conditions that allow decision-makers to leverage new data and technology tools to address their concerns. This panel will draw on specific examples of current systems for monitoring forest changes, their policy applications, and advancements anticipated for the future. Speakers will explore the challenges and limitations of technology to improve land-use planning, implement REDD+ schemes, protect rights of local communities, monitor illegal logging, and link with other applications. Speakers represent a diversity of geographies, project scales, and tools.
The moderator will give a brief summary of recent technological innovations and offer a taxonomy of existing “cool tools” for forest monitoring.
Moderator: Rachael Petersen, Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute
Panelists:
- Tasso Azevedo, Coordinator, SEEG Network and MapBiomas; former Director General of the Brazilian Forestry Service
- Nirarta “Koni” Samadhi, WRI Indonesia
- Pradeepa Bholanath, Head of Planning and Development, Guyana Forestry Commission
- Rhett Butler, Mongabay
- Read biographies of the panelists
Translation: French & Portuguese
Related:
NASA: How a new satelite tool spots deforestation
Mongabay Wildtech
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10:30
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Lunch
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11:30
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Final voting session
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
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12:10
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Signature of joint statement
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Norwegian Minister of Climate and Environment and United States Secretary of State John Kerry signs joint statement on climate and forest.
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12:30
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Break
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13:00
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Plenary 3: The Way Forward
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
Objective:
To gather ministerial-level officials and other high-level speakers from countries implementing or supporting REDD+ to reflect on the way forward in light of the December Paris agreement and discussions held at the 2016 Oslo REDD Exchange. Panelists will identify and comment on key next steps for national and sub-national implementation of REDD+ in forest-rich countries, as well as the highest priorities for support through international alliances and partnerships.
Background:
Over the course of the course of the two-day conference, participants will have taken part in discussions related to REDD+ implementation in selected countries and sub-national jurisdictions, as well as cross-cutting themes related to financing options, corporate supply chain commitments, indigenous peoples, monitoring technologies, and many other topics. Conference participants will have participated in voting exercises to identify the most promising ways forward.
Moderator: Frances Seymour, Center for Global Development
Spanish, French, Portuguese & Bahasa
Speakers:
- Raphael Trotman, Minister of Natural Resources, Guyana
- Lars Løvold, Executive Director, Rainforest Foundation, Norway
- Jonathan Pershing, Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis
- Joenia B Carvalho (Wapichana), Roraima Indigenous Council in Brazil
- Read biographies of the speakers
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14:00
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Closing remarks
Room: Scandinavia Ballroom
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14:30
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End of official program for Oslo REDD Exchange
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