2 nd Dialogue on REDD Finance Mechanisms The Forests Dialogue 19-20 June 2009 Montreux, Switzerland
Welcome Meeting Co-Chairs • Daniel Birchmeier – SECO(Host) • James Griffiths – WBCSD • Stewart Maginnis – IUCN Meeting Facilitator • Jürgen Blazer – Intercooperation
Sponsors • IUCN • WBCSD • World Bank • ITTO • SECO, supported by INTERCOOPERATION • Blue Moon Fund
Logistics • Meeting assistants –Xiaoting Hou, Yale University –Annette Lüthi & Josephine Scherler Intercooperation • Need your CARD • Facilities • Dinner tonight at hotel @ 7:30pm
Introductions • Name • Organization • In one sentence…”Why are you REDD focused?”
Who We Are Origin • World Bank, WRI & WBCSD • NGOs and Private Sector Leaders • Expanded to include all forest sector actors Mission • Multi-stakeholder leadership platform & process on sustainable forest management (SFM) • Build trust, share learning, seek collaboration and spur action
Who We Are Governance • Steering Committee – Designed for sector diversity – Environment & Social NGO, Unions, Research Organizations, Forest Owners, Indigenous Peoples, Companies, Intergovernmental Organizations • Two Co-Leaders • Dialogue Co-Chairs Secretariat • Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
What We Do Priority SFM Issues • Forests and Climate • Forests & Poverty Reduction and Rural Livelihoods • Intensively Managed Planted Forests • Small Holder Forestry • Illegal Logging and Forest Governance • Forests and Biodiversity Conservation • Forest Certification
Operating Principles • Chatham House Rule • Active Listening • Be clear, be patient • Strive for broad, constructive, solution oriented dialogue • Not a negotiation • Respect other perspectives • Participate as individual, not as a organization • Participants define and own the outcomes
Meeting Objectives • Engage all major stakeholder groups in a constructive dialogue on options for REDD financial mechanisms • Through the dialogue, identify and crystallize the true fracture lines in REDD financial schemes
Today’s Program Friday June 19 th • 14:00 Welcome, Introductions, Background – Brief TFD Background – REDD Dialogue Intro and Overview – New York Dialogue Outcome Presentation – Background paper & status of negotiations on REDD Financing • 16:00 Breakout session: Solutions for challenges inherent in implementing various REDD finance mechanisms • 17:45 Review & Preview • 18:00 Adjourn • 19:30 Dinner
Tomorrow’s Program Saturday June 20th 08:30 Breakout Group presentations and discussion 12.30 Lunch 13:30 Breakout groups continue 14:15 Synthesis and agreements on main solutions for challenges in implementing the options for REDD finance mechanisms 14:45 Wrap up, Next Steps, and Gland Dialogue 15:00 Adjourn
Dialogue Outputs • Dialogue Co Chair summary will be prepared • Further refinement of TFD concept papers – Markku Simula – Carmenza Robledo & Jürgen Blazer • All TFD materials are on the website www.theforestsdialogue.org
Forests & Climate Change (FCC) Initiative 2007-2008 • TFD Steering Committee Team • 4 Dialogues – Bali – DC – Gland – DC Global Forest Leaders Forum • 275 Leaders • Consensus Statement
TFD Statement “Consensus on forests is rare. When it is achieved, the world should listen. When it offers a solution to climate change, the world must listen.” • Launched October 2008 • Contents - Executive Summary - Guiding Principles - Conclusion - Indicative Actions - Briefing Notes
Guiding Principles 1. Ensure that forest- related climate change options support sustainable development in both forest-rich and forest- poor countries. 2. Tackle the drivers of deforestation that lie outside the forests sector.
Guiding Principles 3. Support transparent, inclusive, and accountable forest governance. 4. Encourage local processes to clarify and strengthen tenure, property, and carbon rights. 5. Provide substantial additional funding to build the capacity to put the above principles into practice.
FCC 2009 • REDD Finance Mechanisms – this is the 2 nd dialogue • REDD Readiness Field Tours – will kick off later this year and continue in 2010 • COP 15 in Copenhagen – TFD participation
The process • Not a negotiation but designed to move multi- stakeholder consensus forward in a way that is useful to negotiators • Build on TFD concept papers and dialogue Co- Chair summaries • Three meetings April, June and August • Look for opportunities to engage with negotiators to advance consensus.
Copenhagen • REDD Room • Distribute TFD materials on Forests and Climate • Continue to advance the multi- stakeholder consensus positions with negotiators that TFD has facilitated
Going Forward TFD’s papers will be continually revised based on findings from the dialogues • Wednesday/Thursday 5-6 August Gland, Switzerland 3 rd REDD Dialogue • August (Climate Talks) Bonn, Germany Briefing with Negotiators • September/October Bangkok, Thailand Briefing with Negotiators at SBSTA • October (World Forestry Congress) Buenos Aires, Argentina TFD REDD Side-Event • November (ITTC) Yokohama, Japan TFD REDD Side-Event • December (COP 15) Copenhagen, Denmark TFD REDD Room
Today’s Program Friday June 19 th • 14:00 Welcome, Introductions, Background – Brief TFD Background – REDD Dialogue Intro and Overview – New York Dialogue Outcome Presentation – Status of negotiations on REDD Financing • 16:00 Breakout session: Solutions for challenges inherent in implementing various REDD finance mechanisms • 17:45 Review & Preview • 18:00 Adjourn
Updates • New York dialogue (April 25/26 th ) – Co-Chairs summary • Stewart Maginnis • Status of negotiations on REDD financing – Working paper “Financing mechanism for forest mitigation options” • Jürgen Blaser
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