Forests with high ecological integrity are an indispensable nature-based solution to the climate and biodiversity crises, yet they continue to decline rapidly, and are often ineligible for carbon and market finance. This session will seek to advance common understanding of effective actions and incentives for conserving forests with high integrity.

 

PLENARY: Why highly intact forests are a special case and challenge
Confirmed speakers:
Tom Evans, Director, Forest Conservation, WCS, Stephanie Wang, Associate Director, Wildlife Conservation Society, Nasheta Dewnath, Programme Coordinator, Guyana Forestry Commission

Interpretation to French in the plenary session

 

BREAKOUT 1: Innovative Financial Mechanisms
Confirmed speakers:
Daniel Zarin, Executive Director, Forests & Climate Change, WCS, Kimberley Todd, Technical Specialist, Climate and Forests, UNDP, Franklin Paniagua, Policy Director, ART, Charlotte Streck, Climate Focus

 

BREAKOUT 2: Opportunities for HFLD crediting in Guyana and elsewhere
Confirmed speakers:
Mikkel Larsen, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Impact X, Lucia Madrid, Senior Policy Manager, Winrock International, Maggie Charnley, Deputy Director, Global Forests, UK Government, Eduardo Taveira, Secretary of State for the Environment of The State of Amazonas

 

BREAKOUT 3: Finance options for high integrity forests in Central Africa
Confirmed speakers:
Patrick Saidi, National Coordinator, Dynamique des Groupes des Peuples Autochtones, Augustin Mpoyi Mbunga, Conseiller Technique Principal, Council for the Defense of the Environment through Legality and Traceability, Berta Pesti, CAFI

The past four years have seen a marked evolution in the best practices to remove commodity-driven deforestation. More and more companies are engaging beyond their supply chains in production landscapes, corporate investment in jurisdictional REDD+ has jumped, and over 30 financial institutions publicly committed to actively tackle commodity driven deforestation in their portfolios by 2025. In this session, leading players will share different strategies and major challenges to advance this agenda further.

 

PLENARY: From Reducing Risks to Forest Positive Transformation: Protecting Forests in Commodity-Producing Regions
Confirmed speakers:
Mauro Ó de Almeida, Secretary of Environment for the state of Para, Brazil, Christopher Stewart, Global Head of Sustainability, Olam Food Ingredients, Martha de Sá, CEO at VERT, Cathy Pieters, Vice President for Sustainable Ingredients at Mondelez International, Matt Leggett, Associate Director for Sustainable Commodities and Private Sector Engagement at Wildlife Conservation Society

Interpretation to Portuguese in the plenary session.

 

BREAKOUT 1: Accelerating Progress to Achieve Sustainable Land Use at Jurisdictional Scale: The Role of the Private Sector
Confirmed speakers:
Matthew Spencer, Global Director Landscapes, IDH, André Guimarães, Executive Director, IPAM - Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Cathy Pieters, Vice President for Sustainable Ingredients at Mondelez International, Juliana Santiago, Managing Director of Fund Control at Emergent.

 

BREAKOUT 2: From Glasgow to Sharm El-Sheikh: How the Finance Sector Implements COP26 Commitments
Confirmed speakers:
Jose Pugas, Partner & Head of ESG, JGP Asset Management, Tim Steinweg, Sr. Responsible Finance Adviser, Rainforest Foundation Norway, Emine Isciel, Head of Climate and Environment, Storebrand Asset Management, Louise Heffernan, Head of Finance for Nature - Private sector, Defra, Kristina Furnes, Grieg Sea Food 

 

BREAKOUT 3: Driving Greater Accountability: The Business Case for Transparency
Confirmed speakers:
Sarah Draper, Corporate Performance Programme Manager, Global Canopy, Jeff Milder, Director, Global Policy & Coalitions, Rainforest Alliance, Juliana de Lavor Lopes, ESG, Communications and Compliance Director, Amaggi

This session will provide hands-on demonstrations of several key tools and resources for forest and land use monitoring.

 

PART 1: NICFI Satellite Data Program

The NICFI Satellite Data Program is an initiative funded by NICFI and led by KSAT with its partners Planet and Airbus with the purpose of working towards reducing and reversing tropical forest deforestation by providing comprehensive open access to monthly high resolution mosaics across the global tropical forest regions (45M sq km in total). Join us for a demonstration on how to sign up, explore, use and integrate this data to support your work.

 

PART 2: Global Forest Watch

Global Forest Watch is a free, online platform that provides specialized data and tools for monitoring forests in near real-time. Join us for a brief demonstration of how to use the platform, with a focus on the latest functionality for deforestation alerts.

 

PART 3: Collect Earth

Collect Earth, part of the OpenForis (openforis.org) suite of tools, allows easy design, augmented visual interpretation, and analysis of sample-based data. Collect Earth is free to download and open-source. A brief demonstration of the visual interpretation functionality of the software will be given using high-res and time-series data.

 

PART 4: SEPAL

SEPAL, part of the OpenForis (openforis.org) suite of tools, enables autonomous geospatial data processing for customized land and forest monitoring by anyone, anywhere. SEPAL is free, open-source, and online (sepal.io)! The SEPAL demo will feature using optical and radar data with a special focus on NICFI/Planet high-res data.

Operationalizing REDD+ in a way that delivers high-integrity emissions reductions to the atmosphere and equitable finance to stakeholders in supplier countries requires overcoming a number of barriers.  Challenges include nesting project- and subnational-scale activities into national programs, negotiating benefit-sharing plans, clarifying legal frameworks, and reaching consensus on approaches to HFLD crediting, especially for Indigenous territories. This session will provide an opportunity to pick up on discussions initiated in previous sessions within and between various stakeholder groups to further clarify perspectives on these barriers and identify ways forward for overcoming them.

Interpretation to Portuguese in the plenary

 

BREAKOUT GROUPS

Demand-side due diligence regulations and commitments from commodity producers, traders, and buyers and financial institutions require data and monitoring systems that bring confidence to all actors along the supply chain. Yet expectations about what data and monitoring systems are needed, reasonable and available - in order to deliver on regulatory requirements and individual commitments - often vary significantly between different groups of supply chain actors, resulting in significant confusion and misunderstanding, hampering efforts to develop common ground on minimum requirements. This session will draw on discussions in the previous sessions and dig deeper into questions on expectations around the data and monitoring systems that are needed to achieve compliance with forthcoming regulations as well as voluntary standards and deliver sustainable systems of supply chain governance.

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BREAKOUT GROUPS

This session will highlight new trends, partnerships, and innovative communications tactics to help us become more effective advocates for conserving tropical forests and securing Indigenous and community land rights as essential parts of climate action.

 

PANEL 1: Reporting on Rainforests
Confirmed speakers:
Eliza Barclay, Climate Editor, Opinion, The New York Times, Luis Eduardo Galdieri, Photojournalist, Gloria Pallares, Journalist, El Pais, Yao Hua Law, Journalist, Macaranga Media. Moderator: Gustavo Faleiros, Senior environmental investigations editor, Pulitzer Center

 

PANEL 2: Collaborating Across Movements
Confirmed speakers:
Marielle Ramirez Pinto, Amazon Ninja´s House coordinator, Midia Ninja, Rukka Sombolinggi, the Secretary General of AMAN, Tuntiak Katan, Vice Coordinator of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), Jose Yunis, General Coordinator, Visión Amazonía. Moderator: Kevin Currey, Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Interpretation to French and Spanish in panel 1 and panel 2

 

BREAKOUT GROUPS