Workshop: South‐South collaboration on REDD demonstration activities, Manaus Brazil 2009

1. The Woods Hole
Research Center
The Forum on Readiness for REDD
and
Overview of UNFCCC REDD Process

2. The Forum on Readiness
for REDD
A multi-stakeholder forum focused on practical
multi-
approaches for building REDD readiness through:
cross-
cross-stakeholder dialogue and priority-setting
priority-
South-
South-South collaboration
linking local and international expertise with country
goals to support readiness activities

3. Readiness Forum Advisory
Committee
Government of Colombia IPAM Brazil
Norway fund for Forests and Greenbelt Movement Kenya
Climate
UN-REDD Programme
UN-
Government of Uganda
Conservation International
Packard Foundation
WWF
World Bank Forest Carbon
Partnership Facility Amazon Alliance
Government of Ghana Government of Gabon
Government of Cambodia Pending – Tebtebba
Philippines

4. Forum Readiness Workshop,
Accra, August 2008
Hosted jointly by Ghana Ministry of Lands, Forestry
and Mines and the Ghana Forestry Commission
Over 80 international participants
Regional Breakout groups identified readiness
priorities for their region
Workshop report at http://whrc.org/reddready

5. Overview of Readiness
Activities
A background document prepared by WHRC on
readiness activities around the world
Highlights specific programs, projects, and pilot
activities – NOT comprehensive
Available at

6. Film on Introduction to REDD
Development by INCEF ( International Conservation and
Education Fund) (www.incef.org)
(www.incef.org)
Film will introduce indigenous and forest-dependent
forest-
communities and networks to basics of REDD and how
they can get involved
Local language
Local voices on forests, deforestation, climate change
We welcome collaboration and input!

7. South-
South-South Collaboration workshops on
implementing REDD, Amazonas, Brazil:
Feb 10-13 and March 16-19 2009
10- 16-

8. REDD in the UNFCCC
Process - Acronyms
UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change
COP – Conference of the Parties
RED(D) – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (and
Degradation)
SBSTA – Subsidiary Body for Scientific and
Technological Advice
CDM – Clean Development Mechanism

9. REDD in the UNFCCC
process
2005 – Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica successfully get REDD on
the agenda
December - Montreal – RED is given 2 deadline for SBSTA
recommendations
2006-
2006-2007 - 2 SBSTA workshops on scientific, technical, and policy
issues of REDD
December 2007 - Bali – 2 year deadline reached; SBSTA recommends
inclusion of degradation; Bali Action Plan includes REDD; indicative
guidance on demonstration activities provided
December 2008 – Poznan – recommendation to move REDD from
technical to policy and finance discussion; language on role of
indigenous and local communities included in SBSTA conclusions,
but controversy over terminology

10. Indicative Guidance
(FCCC/CP/2007/6/Add.1* )
1. Demonstration activities should be undertaken with approval of host Party;
2. Estimates of reductions or increases of emissions should be results based,
demonstrable, transparent, verifiable, and estimated consistently over time;
3. The use of the methodologies described in paragraph 6 of this decision is
encouraged as basis for estimating and monitoring emissions;
4. Emission reductions from national demonstration activities should be
assessed on the basis of national emissions from deforestation and forest
degradation;
5. Subnational demonstration activities should be assessed within the boundary
used for the demonstration, and assessed for associated displacement of
emissions;

11. Indicative Guidance cont’d
(FCCC/CP/2007/6/Add.1* )
6. Reductions in emissions or increases resulting from the demonstration
activity should be based on historical emissions, taking into account national
circumstances;
7. Subnational approaches, where applied, should constitute a step towards the
development of national approaches, reference levels and estimates;
8. Demonstration activities should be consistent with sustainable forest
management, noting, inter alia, the relevant provisions of the United
Nations Forum on Forests, United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification and the Convention on Biological Diversity;
9. Experiences in implementing activities should be reported and made
available via the Web platform;
10. Reporting on demonstration activities should include a description of the
activities and their effectiveness, and may include other information;
11. Independent expert review is encouraged

12. Poznan 2008
SBSTA conclusions highlights
(FCCC/SBSTA/2008/L.23)
Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 15 February,
information on their experiences and views, and
country-
country-specific information on needs for technical and
institutional capacity-building and cooperation
capacity-
Parties and accredited observers to submit by 15
February, their views on issues relating to indigenous
people and local communities for the development and
application of methodologies
launch by the secretariat of the Web Platform on the
UNFCCC website
http://unfccc.int/methods_science/redd/items/4531.php

13. Poznan 2008
SBSTA conclusions highlights cont’d
(FCCC/SBSTA/2008/L.23)
Promoting the readiness of developing countries
Recognizing the need to promote the full and effective participation
of indigenous people and local communities
The use of the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines For National
Greenhouse Inventories and encouraging the use of the Good
Practice Guidance For Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry as
Land-
appropriate
The need to establish robust and transparent national forest
monitoring systems, following consideration of their requirements
If appropriate, the need to establish robust and transparent sub-
sub-
national forest monitoring systems, following consideration of their
requirements

14. Issue: Scale
National vs Project-level approach:
Project-
National accounting approach:
avoids many problems with leakage that kept REDD out of
CDM
could drive deeper Annex I commitments
Supports development of cross-sectoral policies to address
cross-
drivers of deforestation
Subnational accounting approach
May allow broader initial participation
allow
Quicker start
Promotes private sector financing

15. Issue: Baselines
National historical reference period based on emissions
Forward-
Forward-looking baseline modeling future „business as
usual“ emissions
Baseline of carbon stocks
Global average emissions baseline
Hybrid approach
Using combination of historical emissions and carbon
stocks

16. Issue: Scope
Include degradation?
Include maintenance of carbon stocks?
Include regrowth/increase in carbon stocks?
Costa Rica – declining deforestation
Congo Basin – limited degradation
Brazil – extensive historical deforestation

17. Issue: Financing Mechanism
Market:
Credits created for emissions reduced, which can be sold to
industrialized countries to meet emission reduction targets
Non-
Non-market approach:
Annex I countries contribute voluntarily to a fund not
linked to market
Levy on emissions trading to fund REDD
Hybrid approaches
Separate market for REDD credits
And many others....

18. REDD negotiations in 2009
Bonn, 29 March-8 April
March-
Bonn, 1-12 June
1-
Bangkok, 28 September-9 October
September-
Arrangements for additional meetings
before Copenhagen might be made if
necessary
Copenhagen, 7 -18 December

19. Thanks for your attention
Tracy Johns
The Woods Hole Research Center
tjohns@whrc.org