The recent surge of corporate interest in “nature-based solutions” to climate change presents an opportunity for attracting significant new performance-based finance for REDD+. This session will focus on how jurisdictional-scale forest emission reduction and removals credits can be included in rapidly growing voluntary and compliance-based carbon markets while ensuring high social and environmental integrity.

 

PLENARY: Updates on Carbon Markets
Confirmed speakers:
Mikkel Larsen, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Impact X, Daniel Kandy, Sustainable Landscapes Director, United States State Department, Roselyn Fosuah Adjei, Director, Climate Change, Forestry Commission of Ghana, Frode Nakkim, Communications, Public Affairs & Sustainability Manager, Bayer. Moderator: Mary Grady, Executive Director, Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART)

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BREAKOUT 1: ART 101: The Pathway to TREES Credits
Confirmed speakers:
Christina Magerkurth, Managing Director of ART, Asako Takimoto, Senior Portfolio Manager of ART. Moderator: Mario Boccucci, Head UN REDD 

 

BREAKOUT 2: Aligning expectations among buyers, sellers, donors, and other stakeholders
Confirmed speakers:
Francisca Arara, Presidente, GCF Task Force, Allan Triacoff, Chief Commercial Officer, Emergent, Maggie Charnley, Deputy Director, Global Forests, UK Government, Héctor Arce, Director, Fondo Nacional de Financiamiento Forestal, Eduardo Taveira, Secretary of State for the Environment of The State of Amazonas. Moderator: William Boyd, Professor & GCF Task Force Project Lead, UCLA School of Law/GCF Task Force

 

BREAKOUT 3: Subnational actions and opportunities.
Confirmed speakers:
André Guimarães, Executive Director, IPAM - Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Alejandra Blanco, General Director, Environmental Fund of the State of Jalisco, Fabiola Munoz, Coordinator GCF Task Force, Peru, Juan Carlos Jintiach, COICA, Ecuador. Moderator: Jason Gray, Project Director, Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force

The climate COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021 saw increased commitment and financing to the forests of the Congo basin, and those of Central Africa in particular. There is now momentum to increase synergies between concrete actions to protect forests and livelihoods - on the ground  as well as through high-level political leadership. Join this session to discuss the latest on the second largest tropical forest in the world, what works and what remains to be tried at scale.

 

OPENING: Central African forests: what’s the latest in one of the poorest regions in the world?
Confirmed speakers:
Tanguy Gahouma, Permanent Secretary of the National Climate Commission of Gabon, Rémi D’Annunzio, Forestry Officer, FAO, Chantal Ndukura Shalukoma, Deputy Director, Congolese Institute for the Nature Conservation. Moderator: Estelle Fach, Programme Specialist, CAFI Secretariat

 

PLENARY 1: Country deep Dive: DRC: can rural development solve the poverty/deforestation cycle?
Confirmed speakers:
Ginette Nzau, Deputy Chief of Staff, Ministry of Finance Democratic Republic of Congo, Patrick Saidi, National Coordinator, Dynamique des Groupes des Peuples Autochtones, Faustin Boyemba, Fonds National REDD+, Jef Dupain, Director of the Antwerp Zoo Foundation, Augustin Mpoyi Mbunga, Conseiller Technique Principal, Council for the Defense of the Environment through Legality and Traceability, Espérance Nzuzi Muaka, Executive Director, Confédération Nationale des Producteurs Agricoles du Congo. Moderator: Berta Pesti, Head of the CAFI Secretariat

 

PLENARY 2: Country deep dive: Gabon’s innovative and sustainable approaches in the forestry sector. Could they work elsewhere?
Confirmed speakers:
Lee White, Minister of Water, Forests, Sea, the Environment, charged with Climate Change and Land-use planning, Edwige Eyang Effa, Attachée de recherche, Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale, Jill Blockhus, the Nature Conservancy. Moderator: Linsey Embinga, Coordinator of the Programme Management Unit of the CAFI Gabon Programs

 

PLENARY 3: New approaches in fighting poverty to reduce deforestation at the sub-national levels
Confirmed speakers:
Leonie Clavel, Program Manager, One Acre Fund, Catherine Mukobo, Directrice Executive, Association Congolaise des Energies Renouvelables et Décentralisées, Laurent Nsenga Ndjike Kelema, Program Manager, WWF,  Blaise Mudodosi, Coordonnateur National, APEM ONG. Moderator: Jules Katubadi, Embassy of Norway

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Technologies now exist to monitor forests at any scale, but what does it take to ensure that better monitoring leads to better outcomes? To answer this question, this session will explore participants’ real-world experiences applying forest monitoring data and tools to pursue various objectives—from creating transparency and accountability for deforestation-free commitments, to supporting law enforcement, to empowering Indigenous peoples and local communities to protect their land rights and resources.

 

PLENARY: New frontiers in the technology and application of forest monitoring
Confirmed speakers:
Crystal Davis, Director of Land & Carbon Lab, World Resources Institute, Lukmanul Hakim, GIS Manager, HAkA, Betty Rubio Padilla, Presidenta, FECONAMNCUA, Charlotte Bishop, KSAT, Elvis Nsoh Ndam, MINFOF Cameroon, Daan Wensing, IDH, Moderator: Mikaela Weisse, WRI

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PART 1: Monitoring Marketplace: showcasing innovative applications of forest and land use monitoring

Last year saw a breakthrough in the international recognition of the role that Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) play in protecting crucial ecosystems around the globe, placing their rights and active forest management at the heart of the global strategy to end tropical deforestation by 2030. In this session, we will look closer at the opportunities to scale up IPLC tenure and forest management that this recognition provides. What steps are needed to utilize these opportunities and translate this into increased financial support and secure land rights for IPLCs?

 

PLENARY: Opportunities to scale up IPLC tenure and forest management
PART 1
Confirmed speakers:
Tom Clements, Strategic Policy Advisor, Defra, Tuntiak Katan, Vice Coordinator, COICA

 

PART 2
Confirmed speakers:
Nonette Royo, Executive Director, Tenure Facility, Hege Ragnhildstveit, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Mina Susana Setra, Deputy to Secretary General, AMAN

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BREAKOUT 1: IPLCs in jurisdictional REDD+
Confirmed speakers:
Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Director, CIPRED and ART board, Harold Rincon, Secretario General, OPIAC, Andrea Johnson, Adviser & Consultant, Climate & Land Use Alliance, Luis Grupioni, Executive Coordinator, Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação Indígena

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BREAKOUT 2: Advancing collective land rights
Confirmed speakers:
Patrick Saidi, National Coordinator, Dynamique des Groupes des Peuples Autochtones, Faustin Boyemba, Fonds National REDD+, Anna Bjørndal, Director of International Programs, Director of International Programs, Jenny Lopez, Land Governance Advisor, FCDO, Silvia Gomez, Executive Director, Gaia Amazonas

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BREAKOUT 3: Increasing and improving funding for IPLCs
Confirmed speakers:
Kevin Currey, Program Officer, Ford Foundation, Chip Fay, Special Advisor, Rainforest Foundation Norway, Deborah Sanchez, Forest Climate and Biodiversity Coordinator, Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests, Solange Bandiaky-Badji, President and Coordinator, Rights and Resources Initiative, Rukka Sombolinggi, the Secretary General of AMAN

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BREAKOUT 4: Scaling up community-based forest monitoring and management

We have increasing evidence that under the right conditions, monitoring by Indigenous Peoples and other local communities are effective, cost-efficient mechanisms to protect land rights and tropical forests, and improve local and organizational governance. In this session, we will share experiences with the political realities, enabling conditions, and barriers to monitoring and territorial management, propose solutions, and identify key asks to the global community to support the scaling of community-based approaches.

Confirmed speakers:
 

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The objective of this event is to create a constructive, honest space for scrutinizing legislative programs for reducing deforestation linked to commodity trade. The session will provide a critical stock-take of the state-of-play of rapidly evolving legislative agendas in the EU, UK and US, as well as focal dialogues on key delivery challenges facing their implementation.

 

PLENARY: Stock-take of demand-side measures 
Confirmed speakers:
Helen Bellfield, Policy Director, Trase Lead, Global Canopy/Trase, Chris West, Senior Researcher, SEI York, Rick Jacobsen, Commodities Policy Manager, Environmental Investigation Agency, Julie Nash, Sr Program Director, CERES, James Allen, Executive Director, Olab, Ristika Putri Istani, Deputy of Program, LTKL, Isabel Garcia Drigo, Manager of Climate and Emissions, IMAFLORA, Tony Siantonas, Director, WBCSD

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BREAKOUT 1: Beyond cleaning supply chains 
Confirmed speakers:
Franziska Rau, Advisor, GIZ, Nicole Polsterer, Sustainable Consumption and Production Campaigner, Fern, Moderator: Daniela Goehler, Team Leader, GIZ

 

BREAKOUT 2: Vulnerable actors
Confirmed speakers:
Timer Manurung, Director, Auriga Nusantara, Valentina Robiglio, Land Use System Scientist , Agroforestry science lead for Peru and Latam, ICRAF, Antonio Oviedo, Protected area coordinator, Instituto Socioambiental, Moderator: Mairon Bastos Lima, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute

 

BREAKOUT 3: Traceability requirements
Confirmed speakers:
Raoni Rajao, Associate Professor, Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Natalie Walker, Senior Director, Tropical Forests and Agriculture, National Wildlife Federation, Moderator: Toby Gardner, Director, TRASE