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PUTTING FORESTS ON THE AGENDA
Avoided Deforestation Partners co-hosts RED Workshop in Brussels
Charlotte Streck and Jeff Horowitz co-founders of Avoided Deforestation Partners sign Forests Now Declaration with Global Canopy Programme Director Andrew Mitchell looking on during International Conference on Avoided Deforestation in Brussels, Belgium
On October 24 and 25, 2007 Climate Focus, CATIE, and Avoided Deforestation Partners convened a public dialogue on mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation (RED) in developing countries. The dialogue was supported by the Governments of Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay, Panama, and Ecuador as well as the UN Economic Commission on Latin America and GTZ. The event attracted over 70 attendees from Governments, the private for profit and non for profit sectors. Government officials represented Governments from Europe, Latin America, Asia and North America. The objective of the event was to initiate a dialogue between governments and the private sector on RED policy given the acknowledged need for private sector financing to effectively address the problem of tropical deforestation. The use of market mechanisms and private sector finance feature on most countries' submissions to the UNFCCC.
On the 24th, the main message was that the private sector would consider investing in RED project activities if the rules are sound. Private sector expressed however reluctance to make investments directly into developing country governments or into projects where project performance is linked to government performance to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation nationally. Country negotiators acknowledged this point. Participants discussed ways of combining project based crediting within a national accounting system that shields projects from this sovereign performance risk. The day finalized with a side event where “The Forests Now Declaration” was signed by the organizers and participants to the event. visit website
On the 25th, Avoided Deforestation Partners hosted the roundtable discussion on what could be expected from COP/MOP-3 to be held in Bali in December 2007. A political statement that sent a signal to the world was seen to be the most likely outcome, with more detailed implementation and design decisions left for COP 15 in 2009. A vote was taken on the key words that the group would like to see in this type of political statement. A prompt start provision that encourages pilot activities to a future RED mechanism was the most popular key issue, followed by some sort of reference to use of markets, and public sector funds for capacity building. A number of attendees wanted to include national level monitoring and accounting, and most attendees also agreed that allowing recognition of projects and sub-national activities was also very important. Most of the group also considered a fungible market for RED and other emission reduction credits as key to stimulate sufficient demand for RED credits, so long as this expanded market is met by deeper cuts from Annex I parties.
The event was underwritten by Avoided Deforestation Partners, Energeia, 3C Group, Equator Environmental, and the Center for International Policy, Washington DC. Following these links you can download the agenda and the presentations, a full report of the event, along with the list of participants to the event.
Roundtable discussion in Brussels sponsored by Avoided Deforestation Partners
CONFERENCE ATTENDEES
Name / Organization
Adriana Mejia - Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia
Aimée Christensen - Christensen Global Strategies, LLC, US
Andrea Garcia-Guerrero - Ministerio de Medio Ambiente,, Colombia,
Andrew Mitchell - Global Canopy Programme - UK
Anne Vehviläinen - Senior Advisor - Finland
Angel Parra - SEAM, Paraguay
Anna Lehmann - 3C Group - Regional Manager, Germany
Aquiles Neuenschwander - Fundación para la Innovación Agraria, Chile
Bas Clabbers - Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, The Netherlands
Bert De - Somviele Directeur VBV
Charlotte Streck Director - Climate Focus, The Netherlands
Christine Dawn Fletcher - Forest Research Institue, Malaysia
Cristophe Van Orshoven - Biodiversity & Forestry Expert, Belgium
Cristoph Thies - Greenpeace
Claudia Liebers - Embassy of Bolivia
Coos Battjes - Credit Suisse
Dan Millstein - Avoided Deforestation Partners, US
Diana Movius - Center for Clean Air Policy - US
Dieter Cuypers - Coordinator - Groenhart.be
Donna Lee - U.S. Department of State - Office of Global Change, US
Eduardo Sanhueza - CEPAL
Elliot Conway - Managing Director, Citigroup Global Markets, US
Erik van Zadelhoff - IUCN Regional Office for Europe - Brussels
Eugen Diemel-Rellecke - GOPA
Felix Magallon Gonzalez - Panama / ANAM
Flip Van Helden – The Netherlands
Fred Boltz - Conservation International, Vice President for Regional Programs Division
Ghazal Badiozamani - UNFF
Greg Janetos Sustainable Forestry Management - Director of Carbon Programmes, UK
Ines Manzano Torres - Ecuador
Jan Fehse - Principal Consultant, EcoSecurities
Javier Ortiz - Fundación GAIA Amazonas, Colombia
Jeff Horowitz - Avoided Deforestation Partners, Berkeley CA, US
Jennifer Ann Farmer - Carbon Bureau, Uganda
Jenny Henman - Sustainable Forestry Management, UK
Jessica Ellis - Embajada de Bolivia
Jim Penman - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs- UK
Joachim Sell - Factor Consulting + Management AG
Johnathan Ekstrom - The Biodiversity Consultancy, London
Jon Grayson - Enviromarket
Joost Pellens - Essent
Jose Luis Samaniego - CEPAL
Juan Pablo Castro - Climate Focus
Julia Justo - Soto FONAM Peru
Justin Mundy - Climate Change Capital, UK
Klas Osterberg - Environment Protection Agency, Sweden
Lucio Pedroni – CATIE, Costa Rica
Manuel Estrada - Mexico
Mandar Trivedi - Global Canopy Programme, UK
Maria Antonia - Abad P. ENDESA
Marlene Grundström - Office of Anders Wijkman, MEP
Michael Dutschke – BioCarbon, Germany
Nick Roberts Researcher - Imperial College, London
Nicolas Grondard – ONF, France
Paulo Canaveira - Portugal
Peter Aarup Iversen - Special Adviser, Forest and Climate, Denmark
Ralph Ashton - Wentworth Group
Ricardo E. Giesecke - Jefe de la Unidad de Cambio Climatico- CONAM, Peru
Ricardo Ulate Ministerio de Ambiente y Energia, Costa Rica
Richard M. Saines – Attorney, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, Illinois
Robert Kofi Bamfo - Ghana
Robert O'Sullivan - Climate Focus, Washington DC
Rosemary Benndorf - Federal Environmental Agency, Gemany
Sarene Marshall TNC - Director of Forest Carbon Partnership, Washington DC
Simon Counsell - The Rainforest Foundation, UK
Sjef Gussenhoven - Fondo Ambiental Nacional, Ecuador
Sonia Carpio - Embassy of Honduras
Steve Schwartzman - Environmental Defense, Washington DC
Tanja Havemann - Climate Change Capital, UK
Tracy Johns - The Woods Hole Research Center, US
Valerie Merckx - EU Comission
V.R.S. Rawat - India
Walter Oyhantcabal - Min. Ganaderia Agric y Pesca, Uruguay
Wim Luyckx - Statkraft Markets B.V.
Yanne Goossens - European Parliament
BRUSSELS WORKSHOPS PRESENTATIONS:
International Roundtable on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
Session 1: Views of PartiesViews of Latin American Countries - Manuel Estrada, Mexico
(Reducing Emissions from Deforestation: Views from Latin America 69k PDF)
Views of the EU - Bas Clabbers, Ministry of Nature and Food Quality, The Netherlands
(Reducing emissions from deforestation: Views of the EU 140k PDF)
Compensated Reduction - Stephan Schwartzman, Director, international Program, Environmental Defense
(Compensated reduction compensated reduction of deforestation 834k PDF)
Nested Approach - Lucio Pedroni, Head of Global Climate Change Group, CATIE
(The “Nested Approach”: A flexible mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation 591k PDF)
Other Approaches - Tracy Johns, The Woods Hole Research Center
(Policy Mechanisms to address RED(D): Overview of current policy proposals 96k PDF)
Other Approaches - Diana Movius, Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP)
(A New Framework for Reducing Deforestation in Developing Countries: The Dual Markets Approach 79k PDF)
Avoided Deforestation Partners - Jeff Horowitz, Founding Partner
(Climate Change Solutions Avoided Deforestation: Between Policy and Practice 2,048k PDF)
Sustainable Forest Management - Greg Janetos, Director of Carbon Programmes
(International Roundtable on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries 6,532k PDF)
Climate Change Capital - Tanja Havemann, Associate, Carbon Markets
(Roundtable on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation 282k PDF)
EcoSecurities - Jan Fehse, Principal Consultant
(The importance of the private sector in a REDD scheme 1,752k PDF)
Global Canopy Program - Andrew Mitchell, Executive Director
(Climate change, sustainable development and environmental ecosystem services in Amazonas, Brazil 19,427k PDF)
GAIA Amazonas - Javier Ortiz, Consultant, Fundación GAIA
(MISSION: ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION 8,750k PDF)
Presentation 13: 3C Group - Anna Lehmann, Regional Manager Asia, CDM/JI/VER Origination Unit
(A buyer‘s perspective on markets for REDD credits 2,287k PDF)