Chatham House-RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change No. 2

The second Chatham House-RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change was held in Washington DC on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd October 2009.

This meeting was co-organised with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and focused on the international implications of the Waxman-Markey bill now working its way through the US Congress, as well as the preliminary steps by the UN-REDD and FCPF to establish REDD Readiness in developing countries to date.

Expert panels addressed the following topics:

- Seeing forests for the climate: equitable and effective forest-based climate change mitigation interventions;

- Acting globally: developments and insights from the UNFCCC negotiations;

- Making it happen: learning from successful initiatives to slow deforestation, restore forests and promote the rights of forest communities;

- Buying the credit and setting the rules: potential impacts of US, EU and Australian climate policy for forest governance;

- Investing in forests: forest governance as a key to sustained investment;

- Getting ready: multilateral initiatives to pilot REDD.

The agenda, meeting report and speaker presentations are all available below.

LINKED PRESENTATIONS:
Acting globally: Developments and insights from the UNFCCC negotiations Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth US

Day 1 - Introduction Andy White, RRI

Day 2 - opening remarks Arvind Khare, RRI

Defining Sub-National Brian Turner, Deputy Director, Office of Governor Schwarzenegger

Do protected areas reduce deforestation? A global assessment with implications for REDD Ken Chomitz, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank

Equitable and effective forestbased climate change mitigation; learning from Nepal Bhola Battarai, FECOFUN, Nepal

The EU FLEGT initiative: Improving forest governance; excluding illegal timber Duncan Brack, Chatham House

Forest Carbon Partnership Facility: Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment Proposal for comments Benoit Bosquet, World Bank

Forest governance and the Rules for REDD credits: experience at state-level in Brazil Laurent Micol, Instituto Centro de Vida Cuiabá, Mato Grosso Brasil

Forestry governance and climate change in the context of community forestry in Nepal Yuba Raj Bhusal, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation Government of Nepal

Governance, risk and REDD Rosalind Reeve, Global Witness

Indigenous peoples in Bangkok UNFCCC meeting Johnson Cerda, Conservation International

Multilateral initiatives to pilot REDD in Papua New Guinea Kenn Mondiai, PNG Eco-Forestry Forum

REDD financing Charlotte Streck, Climate Focus

REDD+ in international climate policy Rane Cortez, The Nature Conservancy

The UN-REDD Programme: Towards transparency, participation & accountability Charles McNeill, UNDP


LINK TO FINAL AGENDA (335k)
LINK TO THE MEETING REPORT (342k)

edited:30/11/2009
uploaded:06/08/2009