Global Initiative
Two major global initiatives are underway to help developing countries implement future REDD mechanisms:
- The United Nations REDD Programme Fund, UN-REDD, offers developing countries extensive support on deforestation and forest degradation issues. The programme offers capacity building, helps design national strategies and tests financing approaches and institutional arrangements to monitor and verify reductions in forest loss. UN-REDD is operating in nine countries: Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zambia. Demonstration projects have already commenced in a number of tropical forest areas and will examine the specifics of how REDD will work in practice.
- The World Bank is coordinating the second global initiative: The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. The FCPF is similar to the UN programme, but is much larger in scale. It is operating in 29 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Liberia, Peru, the Republic of the Congo, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vanuatu and Vietnam.
These two initiatives coordinate missions when operating in the same country and hold their policy meetings back-to-back to allow participants to share ideas. Both initiatives also have several REDD demonstration activities underway in different countries to better understand how REDD can be implemented and to test the workability of different approaches. The progress and outcomes of these initiatives will help UNFCCC negotiators decide whether forest-related carbon dioxide emissions can be measured and whether proposed REDD mechanisms can work.
In addition to the UN and World Bank's, several initiatives which relate to REDD are also taking place by either government or non-government institutions, part of which are presented below.
Climate-L.org October, 01 2009
Climate-L.org is a knowledge management project for international negotiations and related activities on climate change run by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), which is fully responsible for the content posted on Climate-L.org. Information on United Nations activities is provided in cooperation with the UN system agencies, funds and programmes through the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) Secretariat and the UN Communications Group (UNCG) Task Force on Climate Change. Funding for the Climate-L.org Project has been provided by the. . .
Overseas Development Institute's REDD Net ProgrammeOctober, 01 2009
British's Overseas Development Institute just launched REDD Net programme on July 2009. REDD Net aims to build capacity of southern civil society to champion the interests of the poor in the area of REDD (‘Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation'). It will build this capacity through the development of a REDD practitioner network, facilitating the two-way transfer of knowledge within the practitioner community through the sharing of field experiences and pilot a. . .
UNFCCC's REDD Information sharing website platformAugust, 21 2009
The website aims at providing a web platform for sharing information submitted by Parties, relevant organizations and stakeholders to support ongoing efforts, capacity building, demonstration activities and mobilization of resources relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries and to share the outcomes of these efforts with the SBSTA by providing corresponding information to the secretariat.
United Nations Convention on Biological DiversityAugust, 20 2009
The CBD Secretariat publishes a bi-monthly e-Newsletter to inform CBD National Focal Points and other interested recipients about biodiversity aspects in relation to REDD.
Indonesian Forest Climate Association (IFCA)August, 19 2009
IFCA is the Government of Indonesia Working Group on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Indonesia (REDD), which involves multilateral countries and institutions including World Bank, UK-DfID, Jerman, and Australia, private sectors and civil societies. IFCA aims to support the development and implementation of an internationally agreed mechanism and carbon fund, to provide incentives for reducing deforestation. This includes a forest carbon measurement methodology, a set of national or sub-national carbon emissions reduction scenarios, public / private financing of forest carbon, as well . . .
Civil Society Forum for Climate JusticeAugust, 18 2009
Civil Society Forum (CSF) for Climate Justice s a consensus built at a meeting of several Indonesian civil society organizations (CSOs) regarding the COP 13/CMP 3 on May 21, 2007. The meeting was elaborating the importance of consolidation among Indonesia CSOs towards the COP 13/CMP 3 of UNFCCC in Bali on 3-14 December 2007.
