3 November 2009: Lessons on governance and transparency for REDD

Good governance must underpin REDD. Global Witness examines:

�      How to minimise the risks to REDD from corruption, carbon fraud, and organized crime

�      Lessons from the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) program

�      The performance of global forest governance processes

Speakers:

Dr. Rosalind Reeve, Forest Campaign Manager, Global Witness “Governance, Money, and REDD: How to Minimise Risks”

How to minimise the risks to REDD from corruption, carbon fraud and organised crime

Jade Saunders, EU FLEGT Support Team, European Forest Institute, “Enforcing forest law to reduce deforestation: lessons from EU FLEGT”

Lessons from the EU-FLEGT programme

Tim Cadman, Teaching and Research Fellow, Univ. of Southern Queensland, “Global forest governance: evaluating institutional performance”

Performance of global forest governance processes

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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: Bonn Climate Talks: Side event Peatlands & MRV

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.

Downoad presentations:

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, Bonn Climate Talks: Side event on 'Intact terrestrial carbon stores for an effective climate deal'.

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.

Please download the presentations of this event here:

ECA Introduction + ECA Position on LULUCF and REDD by Peg Putt of The Wilderness Society (TWS)

Forest conversion - Solving the problem for REDD, meeting the biodiversity challenge by Sean Cadman of The Wilderness Society (TWS)

Peatlands, carbon and climate change by Marcel Silvius of Wetlands International

Governance and REDD by Rosalind Reeve of Global Witness