Presentaci

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Mexico
ProArbol Program and Climate Change
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CONTENT

• Presentation
• Categories and Impact areas
• Stages of ProArbol
• Budget 2007
• Main Goals 2007
• ProArbol and Climate Change
• Conclusions

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PRESENTATION

• The social focus in politics by the Mexican
  Government, can be framed in the Vivir Mejor
  program.
• Vivir Mejor gathers all government actions to
  channel them in a same objective, the sustainable
  human development, avoiding its dispersion and
  focusing the impact in obtaining the greatest
  benefit from the public resources invested.
• Vivir Mejor incorporates sustainability
  criteria to social policies. Recognizes that
  there is not only a gap from rich to poor that
  needs to be covered, but also the gap between
  nature and men.

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PRESENTATION
Mexicos forestry program is called ProArbol,
started by President Felipe Calderon, in February
2007. ProArbol is congruent with the social
policies of the program Vivir Mejor. ProArbols
objectives are Generate development and
contribute to the economy from valuation,
conservation, restoration and sustainable
production of forestry resources. Assistance in
diminishing the poverty indexes that exist in
most forestry areas. Give support to owners and
possessors of land forests, for reforestation and
payments for environmental services these last
ones are destined to cover the opportunity cost
of dedicating their lands to other different
activities than silviculture.
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Categorías y áreas de impacto del ProÁrbol
Conservation and Restoration
Competitiveness and Production

• Reforestation and Restoration
• Forestry Protection
• Environmental Services

• Sustainable forest management
• Commercial forestry plantations
• Financial support to competitiveness

Impact Areas

• Climate Change
• Environmental Improvement
• Biodiversity conservation
• Employment and Income
• Company and development of productive chains
• Reducing the forestry imports

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Stages of ProArbol

• Launch and broadcasting of the callings.
• Reception of applications from forest owners.
• Resolution of applications in national and
  states technical commitees.
• Advance payment.
• Control and following of the activities from
  beneficiaries.
• Final payment.

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2007 Budget of ProArbol
Millions of US Dollars
CONCEPT 2007
Subsidies ProArbol Operation Rules 348
Other Subsidies 80
Plant Production 65
Protection against forest fires 44
Environmental Compensation 28
Operation, Support and Administration Expenses 38
Total 603
El presupuesto (PEF) 2008 se incrementó en
1,128.2 millones de pesos (27) respecto a 2007.
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Principales avances en 2007 del ProÁrbol
ProArbol Conservation and Restoration Progress
Reforestation and Restoration (degraded soil) 645,781 ha.
Forestry Protection Forestry fires (natural forest and tropical forest) Phytosanitary diagnostic Phytosanitary treatment In relation to 2006 32.6 less number of fires 41.9 less affected areas 663,743 ha. 45,695 ha.
Environmental services (natural and tropical forests) 610,000 ha.
It includes Commercial Forestry Plantations
12 in progress of establishment
ProArbol, Production and Competitiveness Progress
Sustainable forestry management (incorporation) 1.9 million ha.
Sustainable Forestry Development (Capacitating, equipment, ecotourism, good management certification and technical audit) 6.3 million ha.
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Reforestation and Restoration (Degraded soil) Reforestation and Restoration (Degraded soil) Reforestation and Restoration (Degraded soil)
Ecosystem Plant Number of plants
Forest and Tropical Forest Trees 251 million 779 thousand 394
Desert Bushes and weeds 218 million 870 thousand 707
Total 470 million 650 thousand 101
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ProArbol y Climate Change
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Mexico is coherent with their international
commitments of environmental protection and has a
National Strategy for Climate Change it has
establish opportunities for the vegetation sector
and soil use mitigation.

• The main objective is to preserve the forestry
  carbon and reduce the greenhouse gasses emissions
  produced by activities related to the soil use,
  changes in soil use, silviculture, agriculture
  and livestock.
• There are some established actions in ProArbol
• Conservation of carbon through the Sustainable
  forestry development,
• Retribution of environmental forestry services,
• Units for improvement and management,
• Forestry sanitation,
• Carbon sequestration through
• Reforestation
• Reforestation with soil restoration
• Commercial plantations
• MDL projects
• Carbon substitution with forestry bio-fuels.

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Mexico and CO2 emmissions

• The 14 equals to 89,854 Gg (CO2 eq) throw by
• Change in soil use (10)
• Lost of organic carbon in the soil (fires,
  erosion) and forest exploitation (4)

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Mitigations through ProArbol
There are direct actions to reduce CO2 emissions
in the forestry sector through ProArbol program.

• 1. Carbon conservation
• Sustainable Forestry Development
• Forestry Communitarian Diligence
• Environmental Services (water, biodiversity and
  agro forestry)
• Conservation and restoration of forestry
  ecosystems.

• 2. Carbon capture
• Reforestation
• Commercial plantations
• Benefits for Environmental services

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• Strenght of institutional capacities for the
  formulation and implementation of forestry
  projects of conservation and carbon
  sequestration.
• Promotion, development and implementation of
  forestry projects in the framework of Mechanisms
  for a Clean Development (MDL, in spanish), and
  direct retributions for environmental
  hydrological services and biodiversity
  conservation.
• Creation of opportunities for carbon project
  developments in the voluntarty market, and from
  local markets of retributions from environmental
  services.

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Aid from ProArbol for Climate Change

• These are
• Creation of projects for carbon caption.
• Acceptation of policies to grant aid to forestry
  projects in carbon caption, and the promotion of
  rules for the development of a national market of
  emissions.
• Reward for hydrological services and biodiversity
  conservation.
• Diligence of the approval letters on the
  nationals authorities side, designated in carbon
  projects.
• Fortification in technical and organizational
  capacities for the creation and execution of
  carbon caption projects.

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ProArbol MDL projects of Forestation/Reforestatio
n

• Objectives
• Encourage the creation of forestry projects
  within the MDL framework.
• Promote the development of technical capacities
  for the creation of MDL forestry projects.
• Incentivize the construction of strategic
  alliances between suppliers, NGOs, education and
  research institutions and potential buyers.
• Take advantage of the opportunity that MDL is
  offering to channelize international financing
  resources for the project development.

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ProArbol Reduction of emissions for
deforestation and forestry degradation. (REDD)

• From the participation of CONAFOR in different
  forums and the recent UNFCCC decision, it has
  been working in
• The preparation of a mechanism for positive
  incentives to reduce the emmissions for
  deforestation and degradation (REDD) of the
  framework of CoP/13.
• Activity incorporation from ProArbol for the
  generation of carbon credits, in a national
  strategy of REDD.
• Explore a voluntary market of carbon credits
  based in forestry projects (we have more than 40
  Idea Projects in Development IPDs).
• Alternative exploration to incorporate
  sustainable forestry management activities and
  forest conservation to the credit carbon market
  (Balis Action Plan).
• Preparation, commercialization and following of
  the carbon projects (MDL F/R, REDD, voluntary
  market, etc.).

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BIODIVERSITY PATRIMONIAL FUND

• In 2006, it was established the Environmental
  Services Project between CONAFOR, the World Bank
  and the Global Environment Facility (GEF),
  agreeing in the creation and operation of a
  Biodiversity Patrimonial Fund, on the financing
  support for the conservation of forestry
  ecosystems that protect the biodiversity, in
  worlds interest locations.
• The objective is to establish a fund that
  provides permanent financing to the
  conservation/restoration of the forestry
  ecosystems that have biodiversity of global
  importance.
• The layout is through payments for Environmental
  Services to the owners and possessors of the
  forestry lands located in eligible zones. This
  Fund will initiate in 2008 with a initial capital
  of 10 million US dollars.

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Conclusions

• ProÁrbol helps to preserve Carbon in forests,
  tropical forests and other kind of vegetation, it
  also helps to capture CO2 from the atmosphere.
• Mexico has assumed a voluntary commitment to
  reduce and mitigate its emissions, and also to
  undertake actions of mitigation/adaptation in
  view of the Climate Change.
• The related activities with the forestry
  vegetation and the soil use changes, are elements
  that contribute in a 14 to the Greenhouse Effect
  Gases (GEG) in Mexico.
• Mexicos forests have a great potential for
  emission reduction and CO2 conservation.
• Forestation, reforestation and natural forests
  management to avoid deforestation are capable to
  compensate the emissions of GEG in Mexico.