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Results of the e-consultation:What Steps has South America Taken on REDD?

Consuelo Espinosa

Senior Forest and Climate Change Officer

IUCN US / FCP

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Main Topics

1. Approaches to address REDD

2. Elements for effective and fair implementation

3. Mechanisms and experiences aimed at reducing deforestation in South America

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Approaches to address REDD

National or project based approach? Challenges National approaches: •Forest governance and governability •Effective incorporation of governments and States in the process. •International leakage

Challenges Project approaches•limited success CDM forest•Transaction costs

Consensus on adv / opp national approach

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Elements for effective and fair implementation

•Transparent and capable governance structures, robust accountability mechanisms and standards to strengthen participation in the design and implementation of REDD.

•Clarity about land tenure and rights of ownership and use of forest resources.

•Technical, financial and administrative capacity: to define baseline, to monitor land-use change, measure carbon emissions and sequestration, and identification of drivers of deforestation.

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•Define national polices and agendas according to the countries’ interests and positions and mechanisms for implementation.

•Understanding of social and environmental impacts of specific national actions.

•Ensure fair compensation to communities.

•Promote and ensure stakeholder participation in negotiation and decision-making processes.

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Mechanisms and experiences aimed at reducing deforestation in South America • PES / CES schemes - lessons learned:

– define criteria to prioritize the forests that will be paid or compensated based on both the services they provide and the level of threat to which they are exposed;

– demonstrate the additionality of the actions to be carried out; – appropriately define the baseline in order to avoid creating

perverse incentives – Guarantee adequate distribution of benefits– How to measure co-benefits?– How to demostrate the impact of REDD actions in the

ecosystem health and livelihoods.

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Thank you!!

More details: doris.cordero@sur.iucn.org

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