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Two-Day Seminar for Climate Change and Forests - Conservation of Tropical Forests towards the Green Economy -
Objective
Deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries are often inextricably linked to the economic growth in developing countries. REDD+ is a unique opportunity to make the forest conservation compatible with sustainable development by providing financial incentives to developing countries that have successfully reduced GHG emissions from forests. Moreover, the forest conservation in the context of the "Green Economy" attracted considerable attention at Rio+20 in June 2012.
However, several key issues are yet to be incarnated in order to realize REDD+, which include partnership with the private sector, robust MRV systems, safeguards, and scaling up of REDD+ activities from the project level to the national level, among others.
This seminar aims to share expertise and experiences from precedent activities of the above mentioned issues so as to encourage a broad range of actors to engage in REDD+ activities. The expected participants are from governments, research and educational institutions, NGOs, the private sector, and the general public.
- Date
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- Venue
- Tokyo, International Conference Center of Waseda Univ.
- Organizer
- Forestry and Forest Product Research Institute
- Co-organizer
- Waseda University Environmental Research Institute
- Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
- International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
- Under the auspices of
- Forestry Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
- Ministry of the Environment
- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Japanese Forest Society (JFS)
- Japan Society of Tropical Ecology (JASTE)
- Remote Sensing Society of Japan (RSSJ)
- Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS)
Program
| Time | Speaker/Presentation | Proceedings |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | Registration | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Opening Remarks Kazuyuki Morita (Councilor, FFPRI) |
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| Guest Greetings Keiichi Yamazaki (Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation) |
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| Introduction Mitsuo Matsumoto (Research Coordinator, FFPRI) | ||
| Session 1: What is REDD+? | ||
| 10:20 - 10:50 | What is REDD+? - Concept, background, history, and main challenges of REDD+
Takeshi Toma (FFPRI) |
Proceedings |
| Session 2: Partnerships with private sector for forest conservation Moderator: Osamu Hashiramoto (Forestry Agency) |
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| 10:50 - 11:50 | ||
| Reforestation efforts by industry-university partnership (W-BRIDGE) in Indonesia
Yasushi Morikawa (Waseda Univ.) |
Proceedings | |
| NGO Expectation to Private Sector for Forest Conservation in Tropical Regions
Mikako Awano (WWF Japan) |
Proceedings | |
| One Forest One Community for Food Security - Pilot Project in Gaza, Mozambique
Raimo Aly Baraca (Republic of Mozambique) |
Proceedings | |
| Tropical forest conservation and corporate activities
Takeshi Nakanishi (Carbon Free Consulting Corporation) |
Proceedings | |
| Private Sectors' Approach to Forests
Kaori Fujita (Nikkei Business Publications Inc.) |
Proceedings | |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Q/A Session | |
| 12:05 - 13:00 | Lunch Break / Poster Session | |
| Session 3: Consumer's role for forest conservation Moderator: Masahiro Kawatei (Hakuhodo) |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | ||
| Tropical forest conservation as our own task: from an environmental journalist standpoint
Kazuko Murata (Environmental Journalist) |
Proceedings | |
| Rainforest Alliance: Sustainable development for rainforest conservation
Chieko Horiuchi (Rain Forest Alliance) |
Proceedings | |
| Relationship between overseas forest and us: Communication through Fairwood Café
Yuki Sakamoto (Global Environmental Forum) |
Proceedings | |
| Improving law compliance in the tropical forest sector: tracking, certification and ITTO
Steven Johnson (International Tropical Timber Organization) |
Proceedings | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Q/A Session | |
| Group Discussion: How business sectors and citizens can stop deforestations and forest degradations? Coordinator: Fumitake Sakamoto (Rikkyo Univ.) |
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| 14:15 - 15:00 | Discussion by all participants | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Panel Discussion: How business sectors and citizens can stop deforestations and forest degradations? Facilitator: Mitsuo Matsumoto (FFPRI) |
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| 15:30 - 16:45 |
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| Closing Session | ||
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Mitsuo Matsumoto (FFPRI) | |
| 17:00 | Closing | |
| Time | Speaker/Presentation | Proceedings |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | Registration | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Opening Remarks Kazuo Suzuki (President, FFPRI) |
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| Guest Greetings Yukimasa Shinoda (Deputy Director General, Forestry Agency) |
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| Introduction
Mitsuo Matsumoto (REDD R & D Center, FFPRI) |
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| Keynote speeches | ||
| 10:20 - 10:40 | International negotiations on REDD-plus
Satoshi Akahori (Director, Forest Carbon Strategy Office, Forestry Agency) |
Proceedings |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Where is REDD+ heading?
Arild Angelsen (Senior Associate of CIFOR, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences) |
Proceedings |
| Session 1: Challenges for REDD+ 1: Establishment of National Forest Monitoring Systems Moderator: Kei Suzuki (Japan Forest Technology Association) |
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| 11:00 - 11:45 | ||
| How to cook REDD-plus? - How to measure and monitor forest carbon?
Yasumasa Hirata (FFPRI) |
Proceedings | |
| Forest Carbon Monitoring Systems in Vietnam
Nguen Dinh hung (Government of Vietnam) |
Proceedings | |
| Forest Monitoring System in Brazil
Telma Krug (National Institute for Space Research (INPE) |
Proceedings | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Q/A Session | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break / Poster Session | |
| Session 2: Challenges for REDD+ 2: Safeguards and co-benefits Moderator: Kimihiko Hyakumura (Associate Prof., Kyushu Univ.) |
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| 13:00 - 13:30 | ||
| Potential of the community forest monitoring in the national safeguard information system
Makino Yamanoshita (IGES) |
Proceedings | |
| Experience in Piloting REDD+ Payments in Tanzania
Riziki Shemdoe (Ardhi University, Tanzania) |
Proceedings | |
| Challenges for REDD+: Co-benefits and Biodiversity Safeguards
Ian Thompson (Canadian Forest Service, IUFRO) |
Proceedings | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Q/A Session | |
| Session 3: Challenges for REDD+ 3: Scaling-up from project level to the national level Moderator: Masahiro Amano (Waseda Univ.) |
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| 13:45 - 14:45 | ||
| REDD-plus guidelines for Bilateral Offset Credit Mechanism (JCM/BOCM)
Mitsuo Matsumoto (FFPRI) |
Proceedings | |
| Scaling up REDD+: From Projects to Integrated National Approaches
Summer Montacute (Verified Carbon Standard) |
Proceedings | |
| REDD+ Situation in Lao PDR -Toward Consistent Approaches
Thong Eth Phayvanh (Government of Laos) |
Proceedings | |
| REDD+ Readiness and Implementation in Peru
Claudio Schneider (Conservation International Peru) |
Proceedings | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Q/A Session | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Panel Discussion: Scenario to Phase 3 - Challenges for REDD+ | ||
| 15:30 - 16:30 |
Facilitator: Mitsuo Matsumoto (FFPRI)
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| Closing Session | ||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Mitsuo Matsumoto (FFPRI) | |
| 17:00 | Closing | |
| 18:30 - 20:30 | Post-seminar gathering (Restaurant "Seihoku-no Kaze") | |