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2nd 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

• riented dialogue
• Not a negotiation
• Respect other

perspectives

• Participate as individual,

not as a organization

• Participants define

and own the

• utcomes

Meeting Objectives

• Engage all major

stakeholder groups in a constructive dialogue

• n options for REDD

financial mechanisms

• Through the dialogue,

identify and crystallize the true fracture lines in REDD financial schemes

Today’s Program

Friday June 19th

• 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
• n 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

• ptions support

sustainable development in both forest-rich and forest- poor countries. 2. Tackle the drivers of deforestation that lie

• utside 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 2nd 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

• n findings from the dialogues
• Wednesday/Thursday 5-6 August

Gland, Switzerland 3rd 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 19th

• 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 25/26th)

– Co-Chairs summary

• Stewart Maginnis
• Status of negotiations on REDD financing

– Working paper “Financing mechanism for forest mitigation options”

• Jürgen Blaser