International Technical Seminar on REDD+-Knowledge sharing and discussion from practices and experiences –Held by Forest and Forest Research InstituteEfforts for advancing REDD+ byConservation InternationalFebruary 17, 2011

Conservation International Japan
Manager, Climate Change Program
Kana Yamashita

CI Priority Area: Biodiversity Hotspots / Wilderness
Areas: The area where integrated support needed for
Human Welfare, Climate Change, and Biodiversity

Biodiversity Hotspots
Wilderness Areas
Seascapes

CI REDD+ Initiatives in the world*Map location also includes AR Forestry projects

CI’s Climate Change Program
1. Policy Input：Integrate REDD+ into Green Economicdevelopment path for both developed and developing
countries
2. Capacity Building for REDD+ implementation indeveloping countries in various levels of stakeholders
3. Creating the model REDD+ initiatives in developing
countries
4. Providing the guidance for social and biodiversity
safeguards from REDD+ planning to implementationstage
5. Promoting Ecosystem Based Adaptation ：Based onsolid science, develop the program that ecosystem canbenefit and protect the local people from unavoidable
climate change

Best Practice Standards
Credibility of GHG ReductionsAdditionality
Measurement & Monitoring
Leakage
PermanenceRegistration

Project Design, plus Socialand Environmental Impacts

Poverty alleviation &Sustainable development
 Biodiversity conservation
 Watershed protection
 Climate Adaptation

Price Premiums for CCB Credits

44% indicated willingness to pay a $1-3 premium forcarbon offsets certified with the Climate, Community &Biodiversity Standards

REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards• A set of principles, criteria & indicators (PCI) and a process formonitoring, reporting and verification (MRV)• To be applied to policies and measures of government-led REDD+programs implemented at national or state/provincial level• Of use to governments, NGOs, financing agencies, and local rights
holders and stakeholders• A tool to demonstrate and communicate:– transparent, inclusive and equitable process– social and environmental benefits– respect for rights of indigenous peoples and local communities

Participating countries––––Ecuador- Liberia
Tanzania- NepalState of Acre (Brazil)
Central Kalimantan (Indonesia)

CI’s Corporate Climate Partners

Dell and Disney Carbon Investments
Signed in 2008

Signed in 2009Part of comprehensive corporate wide CSR
voluntary commitment to carbon neutrality

Part of comprehensive sustainability
commitment – long-term zero net emissions$2.75 million investment over 5 years$4 million initial commitment + $3 million
subsequent commitment over 5 years

Fandriana Vondrozo project in Madagascar(240,000 ha)

Alto Mayo project in Peru (321,000 ha) andTayna and Kisimba-Ikobo (337,000 ha)
project in Dem Republic Congo

Forward finances project development

Forward finances project development

Will be VCS and CCB validated and verified

Will be VCS and CCB validated and verified

425,000 tonnes of CO2e (VCU’s) retired forDell by 2013

900,000 tonnes of CO2e (VCU’s) retired for
Disney by 2014

CI’s effort in
Eastern DRC

10Sub-National Level
CI is Landscape Consortium
Leader Since 2003 undermultiple Agreements andPartnerships in
The Maiko Tayna Kahuzi-Biega
LandscapeThe Tayna Center for Conservation Biology has alreadygraduated over 200 students

Intact forest
Eastern DRC, March 200718

1. Partnership withthe university
Tayna Center for Conservation Biology

The Partner Community has created the DRC’s
first field-based, community-managed
university dedicated to the study ofconservation biology.
After three years of rigorous study, students
can earn a state-sanctioned Associate’s Degree
that prepares them to return to theircommunities trained for positions inconservation management, development,education and biodiversity studies.
The university is equipped with two computerlabs. Today, more than 400 students attend
the university full time.
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2. The radio stationas main and powerfulcommunication tool
The community runs a radio station – Radio
Communautare Tayna – to help relay the message ofconservation, gorilla protection, healthcare, sustainable
resource management, economic improvement plans,
best agricultural practices, the proposed REDD+ Project,gender equity, and other educational news.
With over 400 students attending TCCB, youth
entertainment is an essential part of living in acommunity!
Intact forest
Eastern DRC, March 200720

3. women's
empowerment

Aerial shot of converted lands
Eastern DRC, March 2010

The Tayna Community also supports
war widows and women who arevictims of sexual violence by granting
them agricultural land and training
them to be
self-sufficient members of thecommunity.

Intact forest
Eastern DRC, March 200721

4. the medical clinic forlocal community
promoting local health

The community hospital provides basic medical care, outpatient surgery, maternity care, and a pharmacy. A new
surgical unit is under construction. One goal is to eradicate
intestinal parasitism by combining free treatment, hygiene,
and education.
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5. primary schools
All children who attend the Muyisa Primary School havebeen orphaned by the war. Aside from their regular corecurriculum, they study conservation biology and learn
the importance of protecting the gorillas and the forests.
The community recognizes that education is the key tothe gorilla’s survival as well as their own.
•Education is the community’s main drive. They ensure
everybody is included and involved in the process ofeducation – from the very young to the more senior
members of the community.
Students from the primary schools and the university
enjoy entertaining visitors with songs, passionate poems,and plays about reforestation, REDD+, gorilla protection,and poaching.

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6. clean powerhydro-electric power plant

Near the village of Kasugho and adjacent to the TCCB, thecommunity has constructed a dam and hydroelectric
station. Gravity drives the water to run down a narrow
souse which turns a simple turbine enabling a generator
to produce 37 kw of electricity. This provides public
lighting for the radio, hospital, university, and otherimportant projects (and the disco!).

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7. gorilla rehabilitation
Dian Fossey Gorilla International Fund

Tayna Community workers are building a Gorilla
Rehabilitation Center to house baby gorillas confiscatedfrom meat markets and the illegal pet trade. Once thegorillas have settled in this new facility, their humancaregivers will accompany them into the protected forestsbehind the Center. It is the hope that these baby gorillas
will learn how to live outside of captivity and may one day
be returned to the reserve.
The gorillas are staying temporarily at the Dian Fossey
Gorilla International Fund compound in Goma and plans
are underway to make the transfer to the Tayna site in thesummer 2010. The new Gorilla Rehabilitation Center will
have a staging area, veterinary clinic, a holding area, andan education center.
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Linking community forForest Conservation
an integrated approach to conservation

How has the community managed to dissuade its members
from destroying the primary forests for personal gain? Tayna
has focused on projects that respond to the most criticalconcerns of their community such as education andcommunication, poverty, widows and orphans, and access togood health care.
They have identified and managed a primary forest “hotspot”
consisting of two Nature Reserves - both sanctioned by thegovernment’s National Wildlife Authority. In this area there
are 45 IUCN Red List-threatened species as well as highnumbers of endemic and restricted-range species. The Tayna
Community Project is a model for forest communities desiringto develop their environmental services to generate
sustainable, long-term revenues while providing benefits forthe global environment.

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CI’s effort inChiapas,Mexico27

Linking Statelevel policy

Creating innovative federal and state legislation:
US, Brazil, Indonesia
Chiapas-California also initiated partnership• Chiapas in Context• Surface area of: 73,289 km2• One of the most biologically and culturally
diverse regions of the world;• Forms part of the Grijalva-Usumacinta
watershed (30% of Mexico´s freshwater);• The MDGs have been added to the stateconstitution;• One of the most vulnerable states in Mexico;• 26% of the population above 15 years old isilliterate;• Average population growth: 4.5% (2% abovethe national average).
• 46 natural protected areas (21 federal y 25state).
• Enormous potential for mitigation projects

Objective• Facilitate the development of aclimate change strategy tailored to theunique conditions of the state ofChiapas• Analysis of the political andinstitutional framework to propose
modifications that include climatechange as a priority for Chiapas andthe support the participation of civilsociety, academia and the private
sector (concluded)• Inter-secretarial commission onClimate change and advisorycommittee, both created andconsolidated through a program tobuild capacity on climate change.

Development of thestate’s scientific andtechnical data:
1. GHG Inventory; emissions
scenarios and mitigation strategy;
2. Future climate scenarios
including extreme events and anadaptation strategy;
3. State REDD+ baseline, process
to prepare the state. (aligned withnational processes)

GHG Emissions of Chiapas
compared to Mexico(preliminary information)

México711,650.2
Gg
Chiapas4.82% =32,727.34
GgGHG Emissions (tons) by Sector forChiapas (preliminary information)
Energy6,512,000 tons =19.9%

Land use, land
use change(deforestationand degradation)and forest
ecosystems
16,477,000 tons
= 61.74%

Industrial Processes
35,040 tons = 0.11%
Waste 1,282,800
ton = 3.9 %Livestock andAgriculture
4,700, 000 tons =14.36%

• Probable future deforestation by region (modeled to 2016)

Potenctal deforestation rate

Castillo 2010 et alCI’s on-the-ground effort to reduce deforestation in Chiapas•Promote shade grown coffee
production as livelihood activities•Developed the purchasing guideline
for Starbucks Coffee for sourcing
sustainably and socially responsible
coffee. Chiapas is the first project site
•Now incorporating the ‘contribution
for climate change’ into the guideline•Working with indigenous coffee
farmers to protect the forest while
producing coffee•Community based carbon MRV pilot
project is now being developed withpartners

Lessons Learnt and Take Away Message•Effective and innovative partnership needed: Central and local Government, Private
Sectors, NGOs and community/Indigenous people•Lacking the support to middle: National-level planning, sub-national level model
initiatives and capacity building needs to be linked.
•Need for Inter-Governmental and multi-national collaboration: Gap analysis is
critical to provide the missing support for developing country’s effort for REDD+. The
collaboration is needed based on the specific developing country’s REDD+ goal.
•For social and environmental safeguards, it is important to involve community andIndigenous people in the process of determining the criteria•Financial support needs to be scaled up: The current global pledge for REDD+ is
not enough for covering all the countries (reference: IWG-IFR)•The support to MRV development needs to be included from the Readiness stage•Need to involve all the countries, including the country with high forest cover withlow deforestation rate (HFLD) to prevent global leakage

Thank you verymuch!

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