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ACP FLEGT: Supporting Sustainable Forest Management

The ACP Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Support Programme aims to support ACP countries in implementing the EU FLEGT Action Plan for reducing illegal logging and associated trade. This programme provides grants, assistance to governments, and information services to improve forest governance and promote sustainable management.

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ACP FLEGT: Supporting Sustainable Forest Management

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  1. ACP Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Support Programme Brussels, Belgium 11 October 2011 Robert Simpson ACP FLEGT Programme Manager FAO

  2. Outline • Context • Programme Objective • Contribution to FLEGT • Climate Change - Forestry • Mitigating measures

  3. Context EU FLEGT Action Plan - sets out actions and measures to reduce illegal logging and associated trade on global markets Demand side: Establishes joint responsibility Supply side: Ensure support for best practices in producer countries • Voluntary partnership Agreements • Independent monitoring • Capacity building/training

  4. ACP-FLEGT • Four year programme • 10 million Euro from European Union • 79 ACP countries • 3 Stakeholder groups

  5. Programme objective Support ACP countries to put the EU FLEGT Action Plan into practice by: • Grants: Providing resources to stakeholder groups to address locally defined FLEGT issues • Calls for proposals • Direct assistance to governments • Information Services: Supporting information sharing and lessons learned among stakeholder groups

  6. (1) Burkina (2) Togo (3) Dominican Rep. (1) Cuba (1) Jamaica (3) Sierra Leone (1) Vanuatu (1) Tonga (5) Liberia (2) PNG (2) Belize (2) Tanzania (2) Kenya (2) Ivory Coast (2) Mozambique (1) Benin (1) Guyana (7) Ghana (3) Madagascar (7) C.A.R. (1) Rwanda (12) Cameroon (2) Burundi (2) Salomon (5) Congo (3)Gabon (1) Trinidad & Tobago (1) Botswana (1) Namibia Project activities • 4 calls for proposals • 505 Submissions • 88 endorsed projects • 31 countries (8) DRC (1) Gambia (2) Uganda

  7. Climate change – forest sector Carbon cycle: • 8.8 billion tons of carbon emitted annually • Deforestation and degradation in tropical forests causes about 15% of global carbon emissions: • Illegal logging • Forest clearing for industrial or subsistence agriculture • Fuel wood and charcoal • 4.4 billion tons of carbon is removed by the oceans and terrestrial systems (forests) • 1 degree Celsius in last 100 years

  8. Climate change – forest sector Forests are still a net carbon sink Current trends: • The forest estate is shrinking by 13 million ha annually • Temperature and rainfall changes, and increased fire • Forest structure change • Shifting forest coverage in tropics • Increased incidence of pests Could result in lose of forest cover and depreciate the value of forests as a carbon sink

  9. Sector adaptation strategies Cancun, Mexico 2010: Signatories of the UNFCCC committed to “slow, halt and reverse forest cover and carbon loss” REDD+ strategies: • Reduce emissions and expand forest carbon stocks • Establish principles and safeguards • Need to improve forest governance Private sector initiatives • Green building • Product substitution

  10. Contribution from FLEGT FLEGT and REDD: Governance component • Accountability, equity, participation and transparency The Voluntary Partnership Agreements through the FLEGT process establish standards for legal harvesting and sustainable forest management • VPA is ratified – Mutually agreed standards and safeguards • Penalties in place for non-compliance

  11. Contribution from FLEGT ACP FLEGT projects make a significant contribution to sustainable forest management – better governance: Project objectives: • 19 capacity building for governance issues • 13 supporting community participation in governance • 11 support transparency initiatives • 8 policy or regulator initiative

  12. Contacts Robert Simpson Programme Manager robert.simpson@fao.org Marc Vandenhaute Forestry Officer marc.vandenhaute@fao.org Website:www.fao.org/forestry/acp-flegt

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