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...
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...
At the intersessional climate session of the United Nations in Bonn, Wetlands International will in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations organise a side event to launch the global ‘Organic Soils and Peatlands Climate Change Mitigation Initiative’.
The event presents the activities of the Initiative to promote emissions reductions under the UN Climate Convention through the policies Reducing Emissions of Deforestation...
ECORYS Nederland, Climate Focus, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and the Wuppertal Institute have been commissioned by the European Commission to study possible designs for the new market mechanism under the UNFCCC. They will present interim results at a side event on 16 May.
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As the High‐Level Panel on the CDM Policy Dialogue is assessing experiences with the CDM, civil society representatives will share views and experiences on whether the CDM is delivering on its overarching objective to contribute to sustainable development. Speakers will present lessons learnt from CDM projects and lay out a series of specific recommendations for reform at this Bonn Side-event.
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A discussion on forest climate policies beyond carbon, hosted by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Zentrum fur Enwicklungs Forschung (ZEF), on the occasion of the 36th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) in Bonn, Germany.
Tree cover influences rainfall. With the focus on REDD, carbon accounting, emissions and global climate change, little attention...