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www.gcftaskforce.org. The Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force Overview. William Boyd GCF Secretariat University of Colorado Law School. GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010. 14 states/provinces from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and United States

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  1. www.gcftaskforce.org The Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force Overview William Boyd GCF Secretariat University of Colorado Law School GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

  2. 14 states/provinces from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and United States • Substantial share of the world’s tropical forests in GCF states/provinces • Multi-jurisdictional process for sub-national cooperation on climate and forests GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

  3. California, U.S. Illinois, U.S. Wisconsin, U.S. GCF Campeche, Mexico Cross River State, Nigeria Acre, Brazil Aceh, Indonesia Amapa, Brazil East Kalimantan, Indonesia Amazonas, Brazil Papua, Indonesia West Kalimantan, Indonesia Matto Grosso, Brazil Pará, Brazil GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

  4. GCF Chair Amazonas | Pará 2010 California 2009 GCF States and Provinces UnitedStates Indonesia Mexico Brazil Observer States California Aceh Campeche Acre Sinoe County, Liberia Illinois East Kalimantan Pará West Papua, Indonesia Wisconsin Papua Nigeria Amazonas Chiapas, Mexico West Kalimantan Cross Mato Grosso River State Amapa Brazil Country Coordinator Indonesia Country Coordinator GCF Secretariat Working Group 1 Working Group 2 Working Group 3 Project Level Standards Accounting Frameworks Needs Assessment and Criteria and Coordination Mechanisms Partners Stakeholders GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

  5. GCF milestones and key events (2009-2010) • Belém Meeting (June 2009) – formal establishment of GCF; adoption of Joint Action Plan; creation of 3 working groups • LA meeting (Sept 2009) – GCF Governors meeting; adoption of REDD protocol assessment and needs assessment scoping study; joint Governors’ letter to the Presidents of Brazil, Indonesia and US • Copenhagen COP 15 (Dec 2009) – GCF Governors meeting • Sacramento (Feb 2010) – Technical Workshop on REDD Regulatory Design • Banda Aceh Meeting (May 2010) • Pará Meeting (Sept/Oct 2010) • Cancun COP 16 (Dec 2010) GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

  6. GCF Working Groups • Working group 1 – standards and criteria • Clarity on general criteria for project-level activities • Support multiple pathways to compliance standards for nested projects • Working group 2 – coordination and accounting • State/province REDD program development; stakeholder and governance issues • Connecting projects with state/province-level performance (nesting) • Linkage agreements between compliance systems and state/province REDD programs • Working group 3 – needs assessment • Facilitating state/province needs assessments; knowledge database • Strategy for accessing interim public finance GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

  7. GCF Priorities 2010-2011 • Communications & stakeholder involvement • REDD actions development • Financing GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

  8. Work Tasks from Aceh Meeting Outputs for September Meeting • Report on GCF design recommendations for subnational REDD frameworks for review and approval at GCF September 2010 meeting to be finalized as GCF Report for COP 16 • Continued work on public financing opportunities for GCF member states and provinces • Building GCF knowledge database • Communications strategy & enhancement of stakeholder involvement in GCF process – explore more formal mechanisms for stakeholder input into GCF process GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

  9. Task 1: GCF Report on Subnational REDD Frameworks • Issues for consideration include • REDD crediting options • State-level accounting • Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification • Nesting project level activities with state level performance • Safeguards – FPIC; Protection of rights and interests; benefit sharing • Models for multi-stakeholder governance • Timeline • Draft report for review & comment by September 2010 GCF meeting • Final report for presentation at COP 16 GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

  10. www.gcftaskforce.org Thank you GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST TASKFORCE | 2010

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