UN-REDD initiative und FCPF Meeting in Switzerland

The 3rd meeting of the Participants Committee of FCFP took place in Montreux between 16-18 June 2009, right after a two-day meeting of the UN-REDD initiative.

The first two of three Readiness Plans have been accepted. Panama and Guyana are the first to benefit from World Bank official grant in order to implement their REDD-Plans. The Readiness Plans and useful information are open to the public on the website of forest carbon partnership

The discussion about the 3 Readiness Plans Panama, Guyana and Indonesia raised many issues like land tenure, consultation and consensus procedure with indigenous people and marginalized groups, compensatory measures, definition and measurement of baselines, integration of Carbon values (Biodiversity, sustainable forest management, etc). NGO and indigenous peoples representatives demanded clear governance safeguards, which should apply equally to all countries, and the private sector and provide simple and clear rules and procedures.
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A special Dialogue session was scheduled on Friday morning, 19 June. The objective of this dialogue was to inform about advancement on REDD and the FCPF and exchange information between interested European and Swiss stakeholders, the FCPF Secretariat and selected FCPF participant country representatives and on issues relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the advancement of the FCPF Partnership of the World Bank. Representatives from the Society for Threatened Peoples, Bruno-Manser-Fonds, Helvetas, WWF International, the Swiss College of Agriculture SHL in Zollikofen, the ETHZ, the FOEN, SDC, private sector, and SECO participated in this half day of presentations and discussions. The debate came across an intense interest.

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