EMPOW 2017 - Forests & the SDGs
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just Forests presentation and workshops will focus on how forests are central to successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). EMPOWER 2017 builds on previous workshops and is an initiative of St Peter's in Dunboyne, Co Meath. The whole idea behind the day is empowering young people and inspiring action. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be the central point to the day. We would envisage all workshops linking in with the SDG's and suggesting an action that students can act on.
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EMPOW 2017 - Forests & the SDGs
- 1. EMPOW 2017 FORESTS & The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Slide presentation & ‘WOOD of LIFE’ workshops with Tom Roche Maynooth University Friday 8th September, 2017
- 2. It provides everything we need to survive and we call it Making forests matter for the 19 SDG focus areas
- 3. Our FUTURE… …our FORESTS 4 billion hectares worldwide 31% of the total land area 1990 and 2000 there was a net loss of 8.3 million hectares per year the following decade, up to 2010, there was a net loss of 6.2 million hectares per year
- 4. Ireland depends on imported timber Where LOCAL meets GLOBAL
- 5. …in meeting the global challenges of our time -climate and development- forests are an undervalued asset, but they are …part of the SOLUTION
- 7. Be part of the solution…
- 8. 1. Poverty Eradication: Smallholder income from forestry, and bamboo 2. Sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition: Forests and food security 3. Health and population dynamics: Medicinal products 4. Education: Forestry education
- 9. 5. Gender equality and women’s empowerment: Gender, landscapes and climate change, Women’s perspectives in forest management 6. Water and sanitation: Watershed management 7. Energy: Bioenergy, woodfuel 8. Economic growth: Domestic timber markets, Drivers of deforestation
- 10. 9. Industrialization: Timber trade 10. Infrastructure: Logistics and marketing of charcoal 11. Employment and decent work for all: Employment in forestry and other land uses 12. Promote equality: Land tenure and REDD, Rural-urban migration and implications for forest and land management
- 11. *13. Climate Action: Land tenure and REDD, Rural-urban migration and implications for forest and land management 14. Sustainable consumption and production: Impact of demand for food products 15. Climate: REDD 16. Conservation and sustainable use of marine resources, oceans and seas: Mangroves 17. Ecosystems and biodiversity: Biodiversity and forest management 18. Means of implementation/Global partnership for sustainable development: The Landscape Fund 19. Peaceful and non-violent societies, rule of law and capable institutions: Good governance and investments in REDD
- 12. Thank You Earth rising over the moon. Source: NASA
- 13. Any Questions?
- 14. Copyright policy & more information on ‘Making forests matter for the 19 SDG focus areas’: http://www.landscapes.org/making-forests-matter-19- sdg-focus-areas-interview-peter-holmgren/ Just Forests want you to share this presentation. We used content from Forests News, which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC- SA 4.0). This means you are free to redistribute our material for non- commercial purposes. All we ask is that you give Just Forests/Forest News appropriate credit and link to the original Forest News content, indicate if changes were made, and distribute your contributions under the same Creative Commons license. You must notify Forest News if you repost, reprint or reuse our materials by contacting forestsnews@cgiar.org
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- Slide 1. INTRODUCTION Hello everyone, My name is Tom Roche and I want to thank the organisers of EMPOWER 2017 for inviting me to present here today. What are the The SDGs? — They are a proposed framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expired in 2015. They are intended to guide global action on health, poverty, hunger, climate and other development challenges. In this presentation and workshop we are going to examine the role forests plays in each of 19 suggested ‘FOCUS” areas of the SDGs. Forests are mentioned under the ecosystems and biodiversity focus area. There is thus a risk that forests, just like in the MDGs, continue to be considered an “environment-only issue.” Forests are fundamental across the spectrum of development focus areas. It is essential to recognize the positive contributions forests make across goals — from poverty eradication to water and food security — as well as the opportunities that the SDGs can provide for recognizing the value of forested landscapes and forestry.
- Slide 2. Forests cut across all of the SDGs. Forests are important throughout the development agenda. They’re important for food security, for protecting the environment, for climate change, for the green economy — so we can’t really place forests in any one box. We need to figure out how forests can contribute across the range of SDGs. Forests maintain water supplies, help mitigate climate change, and provide billions of the world’s poorest people with income, food and medicine. Global policy makers know well the value of forests, but development interventions have failed to leverage their contributions to ecosystems and livelihoods. Link to FOCUS AREAS: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/3276focusareas.pdf
- Slide 3. Forests cover a total of 4 billion hectares worldwide, equivalent to 31% of the total land area (1). Although this figure may seem high, the world’s forests are disappearing. Between 1990 and 2000 there was a net loss of 8.3 million hectares per year, and the following decade, up to 2010, there was a net loss of 6.2 million hectares per year. Aside from the devastating effects tropical forest loss has on biodiversity and forest-dependent communities, a major consequence of deforestation and forest degradation is the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. Forests provide vast carbon sinks that when destroyed emit CO2 into the atmosphere, either by burning or degradation of organic matter (2). CO2 is one of the most potent greenhouse gases and the primary component of anthropogenic emissions (3). The conversion of forests to other land uses is responsible for around 10% of net global carbon emissions (4). Solving the problem of deforestation is a prerequisite for any effective response to climate change. http://theredddesk.org/what-redd
- Slide 4. Timber and Ireland. Because of Ireland’s low forest cover we are very dependant on imported timber. We get our timber from countries in Africa, North and South America and S.E. Asia. We have the largest per-capita usage of tropical timber in the EU This international trade can have both positive and negative impacts. Illegal logging is now known to be a driver of criminal activity worldwide. Human rights violations are well documented. In 2016 alone 220 environmental/human rights defenders were murdered.
- Slide 5. Although the rate of loss has slowed, it remains very high, with the vast majority occurring in tropical regions. In meeting the global challenges of our time -climate and development- forests are an undervalued asset, but they are part of the solution. On September 25th 2015, countries adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society and people like you and me.
- Slide 6. Are you ready to BE THE CHANGE?
- ACTION: ASK 17 Students to read our 1 GOAL each as a means of involving them Slide 7. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. These 17 Goals build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals, while including new areas such as climate change, economic inequality, innovation, sustainable consumption, peace and justice, among other priorities. The goals are interconnected – often the key to success on one will involve tackling issues more commonly associated with another. The SDGs work in the spirit of partnership and pragmatism to make the right choices now to improve life, in a sustainable way, for future generations. They provide clear guidelines and targets for all countries to adopt in accordance with their own priorities and the environmental challenges of the world at large. The SDGs are an inclusive agenda. They tackle the root causes of poverty and unite us together to make a positive change for both people and planet. Supporting the 2030 Agenda should be a top priority for all of us. The SDGs provide us with a common plan and agenda to tackle some of the pressing challenges facing our world such as poverty, climate change and conflict. Ireland has the experience and expertise to drive progress and help support countries on the path to sustainable development. Source: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html
- Slide 8. People and forests Global estimates of numbers of forest-dwelling and forest-dependent peoples vary widely (5), however the World Bank states that forest resources contribute directly to the livelihoods of 90% of the 1.2 billion people living in abject poverty (6). Of these, there are an estimated 500 million forest dependent people, 200 million of whom are indigenous peoples (5). Forests support the livelihoods of local communities who depend on forests not only for food, but for fuel, fodder for livestock, medicine and shelter (5). Whether in terms of communities most directly dependent on forest resources or people at the consumer end of international supply chains, forests are vital for the well-being of humanity and play a central role in poverty alleviation initiatives (6).
- Slide 9. As it is often the poorest that are most susceptible to the adverse effects of climate change (7), reducing deforestation provides an opportunity to simultaneously tackle the problem at its source whilst helping to promote the resilience of those most vulnerable to climate change.
- Slide 10. Ecosystem Services 2 Forests provide essential ecosystem services beyond carbon storage and emissions offsetting – such as health (through disease regulation), livelihoods (providing jobs and local employment), water (watershed protection, water flow regulation, rainfall generation), food, nutrient cycling and climate security. Protecting tropical forests therefore not only has a double-cooling effect, by reducing carbon emissions and maintaining high levels of evaporation from the canopy (4), but also is vital for the continued provision of essential life-sustaining services. These services are essential for the well-being of people and the planet, however they remain undervalued and therefore cannot compete with the more immediate gains delivered from converting forests into commodities (8). Ecosystem services operate from local to global scales and are not confined within national borders; all people are therefore reliant on them and it is in our collective interest to ensure their sustained provisioning into the future.
- Slide 11: Goals12 & 14 refer to responsible consumption What exactly is Responsible/Sustainable/Ethical Consumption? Ethical Consumption is about making the connections between a product, where that product originated and in what context it has been produced. It requires YOU to think before you shop, to consider just how your lifestyle affects other people and communities, as well as the environment. An ethically-informed consumer realises that when they buy something, they are not only buying the product. Ethical consumption is NOT about depriving yourself, nor is it a competition to see who has the most virtuous shopping list. It is about recognising the power that YOU have, as a consumer of goods and services, in influencing business to be more sustainable, ethical and accountable. http://developmenteducation.ie/feature/ethical-consumption/
- Slide 12. Closing remarks: THANK YOU for taking part in this workshop and I will finish by saying that it has always been my (Just Forests) strong view that forests are more than just an environmental issue. As a wood-used and furniture-maker for many years I realised that forests are a cultural, economic, spiritual as well as an environmental matter. We are now presented with a great opportunity to reframe “forestry” and connect across the full range of focus areas as we have just briefly discussed in this presentation.
- Slide 13. If you have any questions now is the time to ask.
- Slide 14: More information http://www.landscapes.org/making-forests-matter-19-sdg-focus-areas-interview-peter-holmgren/