開催挨拶
沢田 治雄（独立行政法人森林総合研究所 理事長）

Opening Session

開会挨拶
沢田治雄（森林総合研究所 1（FFPRI）理事長）

Good morning distinguished guests, ladies, and gentlemen.

On behalf of the organizing

committee of the REDD+ seminar it is my pleasure and honor to welcome all of the participants.
2015 was a milestone year for the global challenges of REDD+, as the Paris Agreement 2 was adopted
at COP21 3.

The agreement includes a specific provision on forests and REDD+. At COP21, thepost-2020 framework of global climate action that will replace the Kyoto Protocol 4 was thehigh-priority item.
The Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe attended the COP21 Summit Meeting hosted byFrench President Mr. François Hollande with leaders from across the world to share the significanceof measures for global climate change mitigation.

Following the summit meeting, delegates fromacross the world worked hard to mastermind a new consensus.

The adopted Paris Agreement will

become an effective framework and applicable to all parties beyond 2020.

The Paris Agreement aims

to keep global warming to well below two degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, and to limit
the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees centigrade to avoid the worst climate impacts.
The agreement set out the need to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions andremoval of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in the second half of this century, for example byincreasing afforestation to sequester more carbon dioxide in the vegetation.

To achieve this goal, theprovision of REDD+ were included in the text, which means reducing emissions from deforestationand forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forest, andenhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries, .

10 years have passed since 2005

when the concept of REDD+ was first proposed by Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica at COP11 5.
Discussion and efforts over 10 years by concerned countries and people have finally paid off.

I

deeply appreciate those efforts and the dedication that they exerted.
Under the Paris Agreement on the global long-term goal, all member countries are obligated tosubmit their quantifiable intended nationally determined contributions.

Each country needs to takedomestic measures to achieve those contributions and review them. For this purpose, financial
support by developed countries and voluntary contributions are essential, and the use of market
mechanisms such as the Joint Crediting Mechanism 6 (JCM) will be vital. Regarding the JCM, Japan
has already signed with 16 countries.

The outcome of the COP21 heralds the beginning of aworldwide effort to address global climate change. All countries of the world must hold hands
towards this purpose.
I understand that the COP21 logo represents this concept.

In the Paris Agreement, theimportance of innovative climate change action was explicitly recognized.

Therefore, we do want toForestry and Forest Products Research Institute: http://www.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/en/
https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf
3 Conference of the Parties: http://www.cop21paris.org/
4 http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php
5 http://unfccc.int/meetings/montreal_nov_2005/session/6269.php
6 http://gec.jp/jcm/about/index.html
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strengthen scientific research for supporting the action.

Six years have passed since our institute, theForestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), established the REDD Research andDevelopment Center 7.

During this period, the center has focused on scientific research and has

served as a technological hub to link REDD+ research institutes and organizations around the world,
as well as a number of Japanese institutions and technical experts.

In addition, we launched Japan

Public-Private Platform for REDD+ 8 in November 2014 to facilitate REDD+ incorporation withindustry and consumers. FFPRI serves as a secretariat with the Japan International Cooperation
Agency 9 (JICA) and provides scientific knowledge related to REDD+.
In this seminar, topics regarding the reference level and the reference emission level will bepresented from various perspectives with the post-2020 framework in mind.
important in measuring the effectiveness of REDD+ polices and measures.

These topics areI believe that discussions

in this seminar will contribute to the facilitation of the global forest conservation and climate change
mitigation measures.
In concluding, I would like to express my gratitude to the Japan International Cooperation Agency,
Japan Public-Private Platform for REDD+, the International Tropical Timber Organization 10 (ITTO),
and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies 11 (IGES) for their support to lead this seminarsuccessfully.

In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to the Forestry Agency 12, the Ministryof Foreign Affairs 13 , the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 14 , the Ministry of theEnvironment 15, the Japanese Forest Society 16, the Japan Society of Tropical Ecology 17, the RemoteSensing Society of Japan 18, and the Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 19 for theirsupport and cooperation.

Again, I would like to thank all of you here for your help and support forthis seminar and appreciate your successive cooperation.
in midwinter.

Thank you and please enjoy staying in JapanThank you.

https://www.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/redd-rdc/en/
http://www.reddplus-platform.jp/platform/index_en.html
9 http://www.jica.go.jp/english/
10 http://www.itto.int/
11 http://www.iges.or.jp/en/
12 http://www.forestry.jp/english/
13 http://www.mofa.go.jp/
14 http://www.meti.go.jp/english/
15 http://www.env.go.jp/en/
16 http://www.forestry.jp/english/
17 http://www.gakkai.ac/jaste/oshirase/
18 http://www.rssj.or.jp/eng/
19 http://www.jsprs.jp/english.html
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