SBSTA Agenda item 5: Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries: approaches to stimulate action

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SBSTA Agenda item 5 Reducing emissions from
deforestation in developing countries approaches
to stimulate action

• David Lesolle
• ECBI 2008, Gaborone. Botswana.

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• Background
• CC and RED
• SBSTA 29
• What it should mean to you

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The tree and carbon finance

• Tree and GHG Emissions
• Strategies to address GHG emissions
• Afforestation
• Reforestation
• Deforestation
• LULUCF and REdAR

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Issues for Africa

• Land ownership and Scale
• Current stock and inventory
• Illegal logging (commercial, leakage, local..)
• CC and Climate Variability and RED (moving tree
  lines)
• Incentives for RED (Treecut vs cut tree can we
  also say haircut and cut hair)

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• Background
• CC and RED
• SBSTA 29
• What it should mean to you

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Forests and CC

• Afforestation and Reforestation were included in
  the approaches but not RED
• Emissions from deforestation contribute to global
  anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions,
• Maintain and conserve forest carbon stocks, this
  activity is URGENT

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Forest and CC

• There are several possible further actions
  these need to be identified to meet the ultimate
  objective of the Convention,
• reduction of emissions from deforestation and
  forest degradation requires stable and
  predictable availability of resources,
• There are opportunities for co-benefits to other
  MEAs

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• Background
• CC and RED
• SBSTA 29
• What it should mean to you

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SBSTA Issues on RED

• range of policy approaches
• positive incentives for reducing emissions from
  deforestation and forest degradation
• Considerations of methods
• Main methodological Issues PAUSE option

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Chair of SBSTA expects

• Further consideration of enhanced action on
  mitigation of climate change
• An in-session workshop on
• policy approaches and
• positive incentives on issues relating to
  reducing emissions from deforestation and forest
  degradation in developing countries and
• the role of conservation, sustainable management
  of forests and enhancement of forest carbon
  stocks in developing countries.

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What will be delivered

• SBSTA takes into account the workshop and views
  of Parties
• Select outcomes that are methodologically
  relevant
• Complete its consideration of the outstanding
  methodological issues,
• Report to the COP14 and include recommendations
  on possible methodological approaches.

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• Background
• CC and RED
• SBSTA 29
• What it should mean to you

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Methodological Issues what needs to be done

• assessment of changes in forest cover and
  associated carbon stocks and greenhouse gas
  emissions,
• changes due to sustainable management of the
  forest,
• demonstration of reductions in emissions from
  deforestation,

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Methodological Issues what needs to be done

• reference emissions levels, estimation and
  demonstration of reduction in emissions from
  forest degradation,
• implications of national approaches including
  displacement of emissions,
• options for assessing the effectiveness of
  actions and criteria for evaluating actions

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To Go

• Prepare for Poznan and Copenhagen not just
  Poznan
• Baseline what will it take to develop a
  baseline? What are the trees used for?
• What are the activities monitoring, awareness,
  that will need to be undertaken at what cost?
• Why should you stop people cutting trees? What do
  you offer as alternative?
• What policies will erode your RED potential?

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Thank you

• dlesolle_at_gov.bw