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Seeing REDD Globally and from the Ground-Up: Connecting Projects, Finance and Policy

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Camco International

Location: 328, 3rd floor, Collegium Maius

We will review:

  • The need to appreciate the relationship between forests, people, agriculture and livelihoods    
  • The need for pragmatic solutions and learning through experience
  • The need to keep methodological and technical challenges in perspective
  • The need to confront and manage risk rather than risk doing nothing
  • The need to incentivize environmental and social co-benefits
  • The need to envision REDD as a process that builds over time, in phases
  • The need to build markets, market-linked financing and voluntary approaches
  • The need to appreciate the potential role of both public and private finance
  • The need to combine forest offsets to deeper cuts by developed countries
  • The need to be realistic about what carbon markets can and cannot be expected to deliver

Chair:
Rob Harley

Time

Title of presentation

Speaker & Institution

14:30 – 14:45

Ground Realties

Alexa Morrison, Plan Vivo

14:45 – 15:00

Financial Truths

Rob Harley, Camco

15:00 – 15:15

Policy Choices

Mike Bess, Camco

15:15 – 15:35

The “Basket of Approaches” to financing and US REDD proposals

Diana Movius, UCS

15:30 – 15:40

Global economics of REDD and the role of offsets

Doug Boucher, UCS

15:40 – 16:00

Q & A and discussion

 

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
CIFOR advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. CIFOR is one of 15 centres within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).