May 18, 2012
Objectives of this meeting is to support the development of tree biomass and volume AE. Specific themes to be addressed include the following;
- Data analysis and model development;
- Statistical analysis and accuracy assessment for biomass and carbon stock assessment;
- Institutional issues and roles (development, QC and data management);
- Identify gaps and future steps
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May 16, 2012
Business models for forest conservation help to develop economic structures which create and strengthen local markets and value chains. Additionally they have to provide the political participation of the local community to ensure their justice and dignity. How to design such business models? This side event will discuss the above.
Speakers: Harry Assenmacher, Managing Director and Founder – ForestFinance Group; Sebastian Gallehr...
In this side event, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) will demonstrate a possible framework for the effective implementation of REDD+, based on experiences in development of monitoring methodology at national level and the output from the International Technical Seminar in 2012. The REDD cookbook will be also introduced.
Speakers: Mitsuo Matsumoto Yasumasa Hirata Two other speakers
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The event will present an analysis of the contradictions in the bioeconomy and other “green economy” policies that are promoted within the Rio+20 process. It will present alternative biocultural approaches including Indigenous territories and community conserved areas, and biocultural protocols. Speakers: Onel Masardule, FPCI, Panama Simone Lovera, GFC, Paraguay Alejandro Argumedo, Asociacion ANDES, Peru Deepak Rughani, Biofuelwatch, UK La Via Campesina (tbc)
...MOEJ, GEC, IGES and OECC will jointly organise a side event titled, “Toward the Establishment of the Bilateral Offset Credit Mechanism (BOCM) – Utilisation to Support the NAMA Implementation” at the 36th session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) of the UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany on 17th May 2012.
It is expected that each Party to the Convention strives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in order to address climate change. In this respect, industrialising...
May 15, 2012
This side event organized by Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will focus on emerging issues in Asia under a new framework after Durban including climate unilateralism, development of MRV on new market mechanisms, quality-of-governance standards for REDD+, and energy scenarios in Japan after the Fukushima accident. It will present IGES’s own analysis and take of these current issues.
Topics and Speakers:
- Emerging new framework after...
To protect forests, REDD+ must tackle the economic, production, consumption and governance issues that drive deforestation and forest degradation. The Ecosystems Climate Alliance will discuss how REDD+ money can be used to address these drivers at a side event during the Bonn Climate Change Conference – May 2012.
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At the end of the course, participants are able to:
- Recognize basic values and identify key principles for effective community forestry development and practices;
- Assess the current status of community forestry based on the basic principles of community forestry; and
- Determine key actions to apply community forestry approach in addressing climate change.
Who should participate? Representatives from government, NGOs, industry and...
Speaker of this event will be Prof. N H Ravindranath from the Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
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CIFOR will hold a side-event during the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), entitled “Insights in REDD+ realities: Politics, MRV and Benefit Sharing”, on 16 May, 18:15 – 19:45. Room: WIND, Ministry of Environment. CIFOR and partners will examine the politics of benefit sharing and reference levels based on a global comparison of country experiences, such as those in Indonesia and Brazil. They will identify opportunities and obstacles in the REDD...