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Key messages from Forest Day 4, as presented by CIFOR director general Frances Seymour on 6 December 2010, Cancun
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Forest Day 4Sunday 5 December, 2010
Cancun, Mexico
Forest Day 4 co-hosts
Forest Day 4
• Theme: “Time to Act”
• 1533 participants by mid pm
...of which 276 UNFCCC Party
delegates
...and 106 members of the
media
• Keynote by the President of
Mexico, Felipe Calderón
• 70 speakers
• Video streaming and blogs in 6
languages
A sense of urgency
� The time to act is now
� Impatience with lack of
agreement on REDD+ five
years after Montreal and four
years after Stern Review
� Many references to extreme
weather events in 2010
� Assertion that the science is
strong, and the “no action”
scenarios are scary
Success is within reach
� President Calderón: “It’s time for all of us to push and push hard for
incorporation of REDD+ into an agreement”
� John Ashton: “REDD+ is an enormous prize within our grasp”
� Tony La Viña: “Exceptionally good dynamics of REDD+ negotiations”
� Rights: Indigenous and community rights must be protected;
rigorously enforced standards could reduce investment risk
� Livelihoods: REDD+ finance must be aligned with poverty reduction
� Biodiversity: REDD+ depends on, and can benefit, biodiversity
� Adaptation: Significant synergies to be captured with mitigation
Synergies and safeguards
5%
31%
65%
Sub-plenary voting results:
How important is it to monitor the co-benefits of
REDD+?
1. Not sufficiently important in relation to the anticipated high transaction costs
2. Somewhat important, but not at the expense of the primary objective of achieving emission reductions
3. Very important, even at the expense of some emission reductions effectiveness
Options and opportunities
� Community management of forests: The Mexican experience
demonstrates the promise of local stewardship of forests
� Restoration of degraded land: Targeting the 1.5 billion hectares of
degraded agricultural and forest land could break the poverty/degradation
cycle
� Improving forest governance: REDD+ creates a demand for good forest
governance that could help address corruption and improve law
enforcement
62%
19%
7%
7%
5%
Sub-plenary voting results:
Should sustainable management and restoration of forest
ecosystems be mainstreamed in the adaptation plans and
policies of other sectors such as agriculture, water and energy?
1. Yes, always
2. Yes, sometimes
3. Don’t know
4. Generally no
5. Never
• Agricultural expansion remains a
major driver of deforestation
• Agricultural intensification does
not necessarily reduce
deforestation, and can accelerate
it
• Landscape-level approaches to
achieve multiple benefits:
• Incentive payments
• Other investments
• Disincentives (command and
control)
Agriculture/forestry links
5%
11%
47%
37%
Sub-plenary voting results:
How should forests be included in a post-Kyoto
climate agreement?
1. RED (deforestation only)
2. REDD (deforestation and degradation only)
3. REDD+ (encompassing conservation, Sustainable Forest Management and carbon stock enhancement)
4. REDD++ (including all terrestrial carbon)
Note: Proportion voting for REDD++ decreased since Forest Day 3