29 November 2011: Enforcement and Anti-Corruption Measures for REDD+. COP17 In Durban, South Africa (presentations to be uploaded shortly)
REDD+ incentive-based mechanisms are designed to reward governments for reducing deforestation and degradation as measured against a baseline. Hear from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance and guests about enforcement, anti-corruption and monitoring tools and mechanisms that must be brought to bear if REDD+ is to succeed.
Law Enforcement and REDD+, Andrea Johnson, Environmental Investigation Agency
Anti-Corruption Measures, Davyth Stewart, Global Witness
Lessons from Enforcement for Biodiversity Conservation, Dr Rosalind Reeve, Ateneo School of Government
Legal Action in Aceh, Indonesia, Peg Putt, Global Witness
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3 October 2011: REDD+ Methodologies - Getting it Right on Reference Levels, MRV and Safeguards. UNFCCC Intersessional in Panama City, Panama
The Ecosystems Climate Alliance discusses methodologies for REDD+ currently under discussion in SBSTA.
Reference Levels, Peg Putt, Global Witness
MRV for REDD+: Carbon and Beyond, Kristen Hite, Center for International Environmental Law
Guidance for a Safeguards Information System, Davyth Stewart, Global Witness
Getting Reference Levels and MRV Right for Organic Soils, Susanna Tol, Wetlands International and Hans Joosten, Greifswald University
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9 June 2011: An Ecosystems Approach to Implementing REDD - Taking Safeguards Seriously and Making Carbon Conservation Real. UNFCCC Intersessional in Bonn, Germany (SB34)
The Ecosystems Climate Alliance discusses an ecosystems approach to REDD+, including implementation of the environmental, social and governance safeguards.
What Civil Society can Contribute to Monitoring for REDD+
1) Davyth Stewart, Global Witness
2) Abdul-Razak Saeed, Civic Response (Ghana)
Implementing the Biodiversity Safeguard, Peg Putt, The Wilderness Society
Peatlands: Recommendations to SBSTA, Susanna Tol, Wetlands International
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3 November 2009: Lessons on governance and transparency for REDD
Good governance must underpin REDD. Global Witness examines:
Speakers: Jade Saunders, EU FLEGT Support Team, European Forest Institute, “Enforcing forest law to reduce deforestation: lessons from EU FLEGT”
Lessons from the EU-FLEGT program How to minimise the risks to REDD from corruption, carbon fraud and organised crime
Speakers: Dr. Rosalind Reeve, Forest Campaign Manager, Global Witness “Governance, Money, and REDD: How to Minimise Risks”
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Speakers: Tim Cadman, Teaching and Research Fellow, Univ. of Southern Queensland, “Global forest governance: evaluating institutional performance”
Performance of global forest governance processes
11 June 2009: Bonn Climate Talks: ECA Press Conference - Going Backward or Forward on Forests and Climate?
Webcast:
http://unfccc2.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/090601_SB30_Bonn/templ/ply_page.php?id_kongresssession=1839&player_mode=isdn_real
Forest experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance held a press conference to explain the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) agreements and the role of forests in the climate negotiations process. Presenters assessed where we are now, the direction we're heading as we move toward Copenhagen, and what these agreements will mean for people on the ground, featuring impacts in Europe and Indonesia
Sean Cadman, The Wilderness Society
Dr. Hans Joosten, University of Greifswald, Germany
Nikki Reisch, Rainforest Foundation UK
Lafcadio Cortesi, Rainforest Action Network
Dr. Rosalind Reeve, Global Witness (moderator)
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4 June 2009: Peatlands & MRV. UNFCCC Intersessions in Bonn, Germany
Wetlands International calls for incentives for reducing emissions from peatlands under a new climate agreement. But are emission reductions from peatlands MRV-able? We conclude that they are and that - whereas further development is necessary and is being pursued in running research and implementation projects - these methodologies will enable cost-effective and reliable baseline setting and monitoring of GHG emissions. This will allow inclusion of peatland conservation and rewetting in a post-2012 climate framework.
Besides technical input this event also provided recommendations for policy options for incentives to address emissions for peatlands in a new climate agreement.
Marcel Silvius (Wetlands International): Peatlands, carbon and climate change
John Couwenberg (Greifswald University): Are emission reductions from peatlands MRV-able? Challenges and options
Hans Joosten (Greifswald University): MRV approaches in the Belarus BMU peatland project
Igino Emmer (Sylvestrum): Towards a VCS AFOLU) Standard for Peatland Rewetting and Conservation
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2 April 2009: Side event on 'Intact terrestrial carbon stores for an effective climate deal'. UNFCCC Intersessional, Bonn, Germany.
We presented our views on components of a new climate deal for keeping carbon in the soils and biomass of forests & wetlands intact and out of the atmosphere. Environmental Investigation Agency, Global Witness, Humane Society International, Rainforest Action Network, Rainforest Foundation Norway, The Rainforest Foundation U.K., Wetlands International and The Wilderness Society.
ECA Introduction + ECA Position on LULUCF and REDD, Peg Putt, The Wilderness Society (TWS)
Forest conversion - Solving the problem for REDD, meeting the biodiversity challenge, Sean Cadman, The Wilderness Society (TWS)
Peatlands, carbon and climate change, Marcel Silvius, Wetlands International
Governance and REDD, Rosalind Reeve, Global Witness
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