Download Transboundary REDD+ Programme in Himalayas

INDIA@COP22
Transboundary REDD+
Programme in Himalayas
South-South Cooperation for Climate Change Mitigation
Saturday, 12 November 2016
COP22 Green Zone
09:00–10:30
Organising partners:
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
(ICFRE), Dehradun, India
International Centre for Integrated Mountain
Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN)
Funding partners:
Overview
REDD+ is now widely recognised as a financial incentive
to communities for their contribution in reducing GHG
emissions by way of stemming deforestation and forest
degradation, and the enhancement of forest carbon
stocks through the conservation and sustainable development of forests. The methodological guidance for
implementing REDD+ at the national (and subnational)
level has been agreed under UNFCCC. The mechanism
is very important for the Himalayan region, a biological
hotspot that is facing rapid deforestation and forest
degradation due to anthropogenic and climatic factors.
The Himalayan countries of India, Nepal, Bhutan and
Myanmar share a common socio-economic legacy, and
are also preparing their national REDD+ Strategy and
Action Plans, developing REDD+ Reference Levels/Reference Emission Levels, Safeguard Information Systems
(SIS) and the systems of National Forest Monitoring
(NFM). All these elements are essentially required, in
accordance with the COP decisions, for REDD+ funding
through Green Climate Fund (GCF). REDD+ programmes
are of utmost importance to the communities residing in the Himalayan region, as a large population still
depends on forests for their livelihood. India, Nepal,
Bhutan and Myanmar have now starting taking some
Agenda
steps to engage themselves in REDD+ Programmes.
However, their capacities to meet various international
standards related to REDD+ are very weak. Some sporadic pilot projects have been initiated through bilateral
and multilateral funding.
All these countries are at different levels of preparedness for REDD+ implementation. India is in a relatively
strong position on account of its national forest monitoring systems and the Joint Forest Management (JFM)
structure. The four countries under the aegis of ICIMOD
have started implementing a Trans-boundary REDD+
Programme in the Himalayan region of India, Bhutan,
Nepal, and Myanmar.
The objectives of this event are: (i) to share the REDD+
Trans-boundary Programme implementation in the
Himalayan countries with a larger audience, (ii) to learn
from each others’ experience in preparation of various REDD+ related intricacies such as SIS, developing
REDD+ reference levels, and NFM, and (iii) to promote
south-south cooperation for mitigating climate change.
It will contribute to the development of a common guiding framework for implementing REDD+ in the Himalayas and provide a platform to share experiences from
other countries on various aspects of REDD+ implementation such as national strategy and action plans, SIS,
and MRV etc.
Time
Presentation
Speaker
09:00-09:05
Introduction to the event & participants
09:05-09:15
Indian perspective on REDD+
Dr. G.S. Goraya, Deputy Director General (Research),
ICFRE
Dr. Shashi Kumar - Session chair
Director General, ICFRE
09:15-09:25
Trans-boundary REDD+ for South-South
Cooperation – ICIMOD Initiative
Mr. Kai Windhorst, Chief Technical Advisor, GIZ,
ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
09:25-09:35
REDD+ and climate change
09:35-09:45
Piloting REDD+ in Indian Himalaya
region
REDD+ and Communities participation:
Nepal experience
REDD+ preparedness: Bhutan experience: Representative from Bhutan
CDM Experience from Indian Himalayas
Questions & answers
Dr. Sandeep Sengupta, Global Coordinator, Climate
Change Portfolio, IUCN
Dr. T.P. Singh, Assistant Director-General, Biodiversity
and Climate Change, ICFRE
Representative from Nepal
09:45-09:55
09:55-10:05
10:05-10:15
10:15-10:30
For more information, contact:
Dr. T.P. Singh Email: [email protected]
Tel: 0135 2750296 Cell: 941 0327527
Representative from Bhutan
Dr. Ajay Lal, HP Forest Department, India
Photo: Meghdut Gorai/Flickr Creative Commons