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Regional highlights of R-PINs Africa Region

Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. Regional highlights of R-PINs Africa Region. By FCPF Technical Advisory Panel. FCPF Steering Committee Meeting Paris, July 9 and 10, 2008. 10 countries from Africa submitted their R-PINs before May 30, 2008

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Regional highlights of R-PINs Africa Region

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  1. Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Regional highlights of R-PINs Africa Region By FCPF Technical Advisory Panel FCPF Steering Committee Meeting Paris, July 9 and 10, 2008

  2. 10 countries from Africa submitted their R-PINs before May 30, 2008 • R-PINs submitted for consideration by SC were complete and used the latest R-PIN template • 8 countries being considered in the SC meeting • Central African Republic • Democratic Republic of Congo • Gabon (in French) • Ghana • Kenya • Liberia • Madagascar • Republic of Congo Overview

  3. Africa: A variety of situations • Forest rich, low deforestation: • Gabon • Republic of Congo • Forest rich, high deforestation: • DR-Congo  variety of situations (humid, mountains, savanna) • Liberia  after conflict situation, revamping of forestry activities • Central African Republic  degradation in humid forest zone • Ghana  fragmentation of forests, agricultural expansion • Forest poor, high deforestation: • Madagascar  poverty, population growth, biodiversity hotspots • Kenya  intensive use of dry lands, energy • With commercial logging: • Gabon, Republic of Congo, DRC, CAR, Ghana • Without commercial logging: • Kenya, Madagascar, Liberia

  4. REDD – Issues on Methodologies • Forest degradation is not routinely monitored / estimated • National capacity to monitor forest cover changes is crucial to REDD Programmes – includes techniques to estimate both above / below ground biomass • Low national capacity to monitor forest cover changes major bottleneck • Use of projections of future DD scenarios proposed by many countries • Many countries make the link to the larger Environmental Services agenda General Observations

  5. REDD – Policy Issues • Coordination among national agencies will be complex but important to address • Countries showed strong support to involving communities in forest management • Land tenure - complex governance issue that could jeopardize REDD • Clarifying Emission / carbon rights - reaching the poor is a priority Generalobservations

  6. Ownership of R-PIN and REDD Agenda • Interest up to the highest political level to tackle the issue of DD with new tools and instruments; however • Countries are at different stages of discussions of REDD at the national level; • Interest among countries is high though in some countries there was substantial inputs from external consultants – a capacity constraint Generalobservations

  7. Congo Basin countries (CAR, DRC, Gabon, Rep. of Congo) proposed a regional approach to monitoring forest cover, through COMIFAC’s OFAC (Central Africa Forest Observatory) • CAR, DRC and Rep of Congo have proposed impressive methods to estimate biomass hence carbon stocks • Ghana proposes an integrated forest monitoring system • DRC presents a concrete case of the need for modeling future deforestation/degradation. Issue of palm oil plantations • Liberia already has an impressive national grid of sample plots to assess forest carbon stock • Madagascar proposes a “participatory ecological monitoring” for biodiversity Monitoring Systems and Reference Scenario

  8. CAR, DRC and Republic of Congo - emphasis on improving their forest concession management (maintaining existing carbon stocks) • Gabon implementation of REDD projects based on future deforestation scenarios, including PES (Payment for environmental services) for forest-dependant people • Kenya proposes activities “outside forests” (agriculture & energy) to address deforestation and degradation and promotion of PES schemes • Liberia proposes to integrate REDD into its “3 C’s” strategy to forests – communities, conservation & commericial • Madagascar proposes a nested approach (combined national and project level approach) REDD Strategies

  9. Gabon, Ghana and Kenya envisaging establishment of PES schemes to change land use behavior • Liberiasuggests the establishment of strong institutional mechanism to coordinate REDD activities (National Carbon Working Group) with the overall sustainable development agenda • Madagascar has a national “REDD Group” in place that meets regularly, discussing issues such as the development of a REDD revenues distribution mechanism Infrastructure to implement REDD activities

  10. DRC is currently implementing the first forest carbon finance project in the country: Bateke fuelwood plantations • Gabon is currently improving its large scale forest concessions (CFADs) system and has created 13 new protected areas • Ghana has very active policy dialogue w/ donors on forest resources, through a multi-donor operation (Natural Resources and Environmental Governance) – high chance of success for REDD • Kenya has experience in A/R CDM, the Greenbelt Movement’s reforestation project (w/ BioCF support) • Madagascar has experience w/ three ongoing REDD projects on the ground (two linked with protected areas, one to the development of a national REDD concept) Potential effectiveness of proposed REDD strategies, and previous experiences

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