1. Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change – Bridging the Gap between Knowledge and Action

Organizers:  IUFRO, CIFOR, ICRAF, PROFOR-WB
Location: Aula (University Hall), 1st floor, Collegium Minus, UAM 

Chair: Markku Kanninen (Center for International Forestry Research)
Panelists: Dennis Garrity (ICRAF), Ian Noble (World Bank), Balgis Osman-Elasha (IUFRO), Bruno Locatelli (CIRAD-CIFOR), Gerhard Dieterle (World Bank)

Illustrative issues to be addressed:

• What does science tell us about the current and future climate change impacts on forests and forest-dependent people? What are the main goods and services at risk and the key vulnerabilities?
• What are key lessons to be learnt from practical experiences with management for adaptation?
• How can such information be used even more effectively in the formulation of management strategies for adaptation?
• Which policies and instruments are needed to provide for effective adaptation to climate change? And how can institutional arrangements be strengthened to ensure maximum responsiveness to climate change impacts on forests and people?
• What are the current arrangements and priorities for funding adaptation activities? Are they sufficient? What needs to be changed?

2. 'The Second D' – Sustainable Forest Management Addressing Forest Degradation

Organizers: ITTO, IUCN (GPFLR), FAO, CBD
Location: Lubranski, 1st floor, Collegium Minus, UAM

Chair: Jurgen Blaser (Intercooperation)
Panelists:  Margaret Skutsch (University of Twente, Netherlands), Carlos Duarte (Brazil), Nur Masripatin (Indonesia), Panelist from Ghana - TBC, Panelist from Japan- TBC.

Illustrative issues to be addressed:

• Why sustainable forest management and forest landscape restoration are key approaches for reducing emissions?
• How to achieve synergies between carbon fixation, food security and sustainable livelihoods at a forest landscape level?
• How to minimise REDD investment risks through ecosystem stability and livelihood improvements?
• How can experiences with forest landscape restoration help reduce uncertainty and simplify complex REDD monitoring in degraded forests?
• How to explore intersectoral linkages in forests and climate change strategies related to REDD?
• What are the challenges for forest landscape restoration and sustainable forest management to be accepted among climate change negotiators?
• How to make UNFF play a more effective role in the coordination and cooperation on issues of forests and climate change?

3. Getting Ready for REDD:  Capacity Building for REDD Strategy Planning and Monitoring in Three Countries

Organizers: World Bank and the UN REDD Programme (FAO, UNEP, and UNDP)
Location: Siedemnastka, 1st floor, Collegium Minus, UAM

Chair: Kenneth Andrasko (FCPF/World Bank)
Panelist:  Kenneth Andrasko (FCPF/World Bank), Peter Holmgren (UN-REDD Program and FAO),  Eduardo Reyes (ANAM, Government of Panama); Jean Roger Rakotoarijaona (PNAE, Government of Madagascar); Lillian Portillo (Government of Paraguay, invited)

Illustrative issues to be addressed:

• Are tropical countries beginning to make progress in preparing for REDD, beyond the broad policy rhetoric?
• How will countries organise themselves to develop comprehensive plans for addressing the full set of issues and institutional capacity building needed to undertake REDD, including monitoring and reporting?
• How are major capacity building programmes beginning to cooperate in supporting the vast country needs to understand and then prepare for REDD? 

4. Global REDD Architecture - Options for Integrating REDD into the Global Climate Regime

Organizers: CIFOR, ICRAF
Location: Sniadeckich, 2nd floor, Collegium Maius, UAM

Chair: Arild Angelsen (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Panelists: Doug Boucher (Union of Concerned Scientists), Ruben Lubowski (Environmental Defense Fund), Michael Dutschke (Biocarbon Consult), James Griffiths (WBCSD), Charlotte Streck (Climate Focus), Virgilio Viana (Amazonas Sustainable Foundation).

Illustrative issues to be addressed:

• What is the appropriate scale: Crediting projects, countries or both?
• How to finance REDD: Mobilising ODA and tapping into carbon markets?
• How to ensure broad participation from and equity among developing countries?
• How to limit leakage and ensure permanence and additionality?
• How to make REDD pro-poor and capture REDD co-benefits?
• How to keep REDD viable in the midst of the global food and financial crisis?
• How to streamline the REDD architecture, while keeping the mechanisms flexible and responsive to national circumstances?