Forest Day Side Events Provisional List 20/11/07
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Forest Day Side Events Provisional list 20/11/07 Date/Time/ Organizer Title/Theme Room Saturday, Food and Agriculture Sustainable forest management and climate 8 December organization of the change mitigation: building on past experience. 12.00-13.30 united nations (FAO) The side event will provide an overview of the Cigar Room Susan Braatz experience in sustainable forest management that [email protected] can be applied to the challenges of climate change Tel: (+39) 06 57051 mitigation, particularly reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. It will consider technical tools and mechanisms, governance and legal frameworks, livelihood concerns, financial considerations and capacity strengthening needs in key areas, including forest law enforcement, forest fire management, reforestation and forest landscape restoration, protected area management, and reduced impact logging. It will also highlight key intersectoral issues to be addressed, particularly related to agriculture. Existing tools, mechanisms and partnerships that can support forestry efforts in climate change mitigation will be highlighted. The side event will include presentations from FAO and various partner institutions working to strengthen SFM in developing countries. Saturday, Poverty and REDD & Poverty 8 December Environment 16.00-17.30 Partnership (PEP) The impacts of deforestation extend beyond Grand Ball David Huberman biodiversity loss and increased greenhouse gas Room A david.huberman@iucn. emissions. The livelihoods of many of the world's org poorest people are strongly linked to both the Tel: +41 79 813 1214 clearing and conservation of forested ecosystems. Mechanisms for REDD will thus have far-reaching economic implications. Rural communities rely heavily on the use of timber and non-timber resources from forests, as well as the conversion of forests to agriculture and other uses. Forest ecosystem services such as water supply and crop pollination likewise play a key role in supporting rural livelihoods. While the rural poor depend heavily on forests, in some contexts their poverty has also been identified as a significant driver of deforestation. Inevitably, any efforts to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, as a means to mitigate climate change and conserve biodiversity, must address the complex linkages between forests and poverty. Saturday, International union of Linking decision-making with knowledge about 8 December Forest Research forest adaptation to climate change – the 12.00-13.30 institutions (IUFRO) contribution of the Joint CPF Initiative on Sanur Room Alexander Buck Science and Technology [email protected] Current climate change policies and measures tend Tel: +43 1 877 01 51 to focus on mitigation. Yet, even with mitigation in 13 place, measures and policies will need to be developed to enable the adaptation of forests to current and projected changes in climate. In this context, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests’ Joint Initiative on Science and Technology aims to provide international decision makers with state-of-science information on the impacts of climate change on forest ecosystems, their capacity to adapt and their vulnerability. For this purpose, an international “Expert Panel on Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change” has been established to carry out a comprehensive assessment of available scientific information and prepare a report for use by international fora, including the United Nations Forum on Forests, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UNFCCC. During this side-event, participants will be informed about the activities of the Expert Panel on Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change up to the year 2009. In addition, the side-event will provide a forum for internationally renowned policy makers and scientific experts to discuss the “adaptation imperative”, and how the assessment report can best support the work of the UNFCCC on adaptation to climate change. Saturday, International Tropical SFM FOR REDD: FROM ACRONYMS TO 8 December Timber Organization IMPLEMENTATION IN THE TROPICS 12.00-13.30 (ITTO) The purpose of this Side Event is to share ITTO’s Bali Room Steven E. Johnson experience in enhancing sustainable tropical forest [email protected] management in connection with reducing emissions Tel: +81 45 223 1110 from deforestation in developing countries in the tropics (REDD). Specifically, the Event intends to introduce the concepts of sustainable forest management in relation to REDD. These concepts will be illustrated by means of specific examples of concrete ITTO field projects. In addition, a tropical perspective of combating deforestation under the UNFCCC will be presented. Saturday, World Resources Old subject, new tricks? How will existing 8 December Institute (WRI) forestry institutions deliver climate-conscious 16.00-17.30 Fred Stolle forest management? Sanur Room [email protected] Tel: +1-202-7297694 Rapid deforestation and unsustainable forest management are among the main environmental concerns of the last 30 years—yet despite decades of attention by multilateral organizations, research institutions and international conventions, success has been limited and many regions continue to face the same challenges. Now, the climate issue has brought forests to the forefront of the world’s attention. Deforestation and land-use change are the second leading causes of global warming, accounting for one-fifth of global carbon emissions and over one-third of emissions from developing countries. Can the need to mitigate climate change be used to bring about a positive change in forest management? Or will a carbon- centric view of forests bring about unintended consequences, mitigating climate change at the expense of other forest values? This side event will juxtapose the emerging needs and opportunities of the climate sector with the existing institutions of the forestry sector, asking whether – and how – the latter can mobilize the flexibility and cooperation that is needed to combine climate mitigation with sustainable forest management, including good governance, poverty alleviation and maintenance of ecosystem services. Saturday, Union of Concerned Carbon Market & other Funding for Reducing 8 December Scientists (UCS) Emissions From Tropical Deforestation 12.00-13.30 Douglas Boucher Reducing emissions from deforestation will require Sumba [email protected] substantial funding, both for the development of Room Tel: +1-202-331-6958 tropical nations' technical capacities and to outweigh the opportunity costs of land uses other than forests. Although the carbon market is a leading prospect for providing this funding, it's not yet clear what level of financial flows it can be expected to provide, how this level compares to official development assistance and other funding alternatives, and how all these flows compare to the needs. This session will present several analyses, both regional (e.g. Amazon) and global, of these amounts, based on economic analyses of the supply curves of REDD credits. The results should provide the basis for choosing funding alternatives and for evaluating whether REDD credits will be either so few as to have little impact on deforestation, or so many that they could swamp carbon markets and reduce emissions reductions in industrial and energy sectors. Their importance for policy is thus very great. Saturday, Max-Planck-Institute Drivers of deforestation and implications for 8 December (MPI) incentive schemes 12.00-13.30 Annette Freibauer Grand Ball [email protected] Quantitative relationships between national Room B Tel: +49 3641 576164 circumstances, socio-economic and political drivers of deforestation are shown at national and subcontinental level. However, every country has its own specific history and situation. Clustering of countries to define reduction ambitions is therefore inappropriate. What does the complex situation mean for international negotiations? Countries need to find their own appropriate ways to fight the causes of deforestation but require sustained incentives to keep up the national success of REDD. An incentive mechanism focused on emission reductions will fail to be effective in the mid-term. Saturday, Forests, climate change and the forest industry International council 8 December – The business perspective of Forest and Paper 12.00-13.30 Introduction Association (ICFPA); Banda Room One of the key themes in COP13 will be the various World Business roles of forests and forestry in climate change, Council for which are extensively discussed in chapter 9 of the Sustainable fourth assessment report (Working Group III). Development Sustainable forest management, including (WBCSD) afforestation and reforestation, are key themes as is Marco Mensink the activities of the forest industry sector. The forest [email protected] industry (private forest owners, forest products Tel: +32 475 769388 companies) has several roles in the climate change debate. One role is as an eco-efficient user of energy and responsible manager of greenhouse gasses emissions. Others include sustainable forest management, producers of wood-based products and enablers of new technologies for biofuels, bio- chemicals, etc. These different roles of the forest industry in climate change are expanding and becoming clearer as the scientific and policy debates develop; including carbon sequestration in wood products, the deployment of intensively managed planted forests to meet expand demand for fiber (for products and energy)