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James Mayers
James Mayers - IIEDJanuary 2016
Forests, SDGs, climate
action, governance and
postcapitalism
January 2016
James Mayers
January 2016
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Multiple forest goods and
services - multiple headaches
• Forests lose attention or get trashed…
or eaten
• Widespread inequality is lethal
• Land grabs and green grabs - investment
frameworks and treaties trample on rights
• Organisation and partnerships for
integration – from delusion to real prospect?
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January 2016
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Growing
trees with
the SDGs
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Forests for SDGs, SDGs for forests
- much potential, where to start?
• SDGs – universal, transformative and
integrated
• Factors enabling forests to contribute to SD
outcomes
• Social justice and good governance
• Fair and responsible market systems
• Well managed, multi-functional landscapes
• Metrics and means of implementation
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James Mayers
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Poverty Food Health Educ Gender Water Energy Growth Indust Equal i ty Cities C&P Cl imate Seas Land Gov Impl
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14 Outcomes
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Proposed Goals
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A package of SDGs showing
how forests can best contribute
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Paris climate agreement
– a much-needed boost
• 4 big hits
• 1.5 degrees as a target
• Ambition mechanism
• Loss and damage
• Legally binding
• Many caveats
• ‘Strong signal to the markets’ - but beware
state-backed corporate capitalism
• New dynamics in accountability
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Paris and forests
• REDD+ boost
• Results based payments – worth
persevering but need non-market
approaches too
• Plantations or restoration to remove
carbon?
• Degradation of offsets?
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Governance – levelling the playing field
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Forest governance for local
organisation and enterprise
• Well-organised communities and producer groups manage forests best – but need rights
• Informal economy – dominant and innovative
• Small forest enterprises are a good thing…
• …but not always, and they may be demonised
• Recognise local, enabling and asset investors – and put them together
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January 2016
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James Mayers
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Changing patterns of investment
in forest areas - China in Africa
• Fast growing investments - challenges
to sustainability
• So - apply convening power, better
evidence, innovative methods and
bridge-building
• Beyond voluntary guidelines to
regulation and investment frameworks
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January 2016
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Summing up and looking ahead
To play our part in decarbonising economies, optimising the potential of SDGs, and achieving good local governance we need:
• Rights installed in the frameworks and practices of investment, including REDD+
• A major shift in policy focus to jobs and economies with small forest enterprise
• Organisation and partnership for integration and shaping patterns of investment, including China in Africa
And maybe it is time to start growing the post-capitalist forest
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January 2016
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