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Agadir, Maroc 20 - 24 mars 2017 Forest financing approaches in the Mediterranean: elements of a state of the art Ludwig Liagre Elena Gorriz Mifsud Programme officer, Senior Researcher Global Mechanism - UNCCD EFIMED Financing approaches

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Agadir, Maroc 20 - 24 mars 2017

Forest financing approaches in the Mediterranean: elements of a state of the art

Ludwig Liagre Programme officer, Global Mechanism - UNCCD Elena Gorriz Mifsud Senior Researcher EFIMED

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Financing approaches

2 National Forest Funds Payments for Ecosystem Services Climate finance Private investments (with fin. returns) Corporate Social Responsibility Crowdfunding Public lead Private lead

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National Forest Funds

Operational : Croatia, Greece, Morocco, Portugal, Turkey  Under design : Lebanon, Spain

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Payments for Ecosystem Services

Payments for old-growth forest conservation (Catalonia, Spain): 52

reserves so far, 20 years commitment with private & municipal forests

Water tariffs: Italy – reinvestment of some regions into forest

management

Habitat banking: CDC biodiversité (France) – biodiversity

compensation of impacting projects

Direct forest entry fees: National Park Cinque Terre (Italy), Arinsal

snowshoing forest circuit (Spain)

Indirect forest entry fees (parking fee): Malniu lake (Pyrenees),

Montserrat park (Spain)…

Morocco : shepherds compensation mechanism

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Climate finance

REDD+ Morocco, Tunisia: UN-REDD member countries Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey: AFD/FFEM project – component on REDD+ readiness Tunisia: FCPF readiness support NAMA : Lebanon Green Climate Fund Morocco: Development of Argan Orchards in Degraded Environment (DARED) Further

pportunities

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Private investments in value chains

Commercial banks
Impact funds
LDN Finance, e.g. the LDN Fund Project
Enabling environment, e.g. Nagoya Protocol and

ABS mechanism

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Corporate Social Responsibility

CSR Platforms for Forests Donations: punctual targeted payments Examples: Coca-cola Portugal agreement with WWF/APFCertifica Voluntary CO2 compensationsthrough HuellaCero (Spain)

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Crowdfunding

Spain : Mirlo Positive Nature Lebanon : partnership with crowdfunding platforms

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For more information on FLR financing

http://www.fao.org/in-action/forest-landscape-restoration- mechanism/resources/publications/en/ GM-UNCCD & FAO publications

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