Overview and prospect of REDD+ and10 years of experience of theUN-REDD Programme
Dr Malgorzata (Margo) Buszko-Briggs
Senior Forestry Officer, REDD+ Team Leader, FAO
Management Group of the UN-REDD Programme
22 January 2020, Tokyo, Japan

FAO’s work on REDD+Goal
Supporting countries in their efforts to reduce emissions
from deforestation and forest degradation, enhancing andconserving tropical forests and other high-carbon
ecosystems.

Mandate:UNFCCC Decisions, the Paris Agreement and the SDGs
Technical assistance and expertise
Capacity development
Resource mobilization
Knowledge sharing

UN-REDD Programme, a flagship UN initiative on REDD+• Partnership of UNDP, UNEP and FAO established by UN- SG Mr. Ban Ki Moon, 2008

• Donors: Denmark, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, the EU• 65 countries• Capacity developmentfor REDD+• 26 countries larger
interventions NPS(USD 5-10M)

Forests for Climate and Sustainable Development• Forests provide opportunity to increase
current commitments in the NDCs tobridge the emission gap in 2030
• Forests are key to accelerate the climateambition and sustainable development

Key figures - forests• 1.6 billion people depend on forests and 2.4 billion
rely on firewood or charcoal for cooking• Forests provide 10 million jobs and income for 30-50
million people in developing countries• Essential for food security and human well-being• Home to 80% of terrestrial biodiversity• 7% are planted forests, producing 45% of global
industrial round wood

Forest area and its changes• Global forest area: 4 billion ha• Net annual decrease: 3.3 million ha/year (2010 –2015)• Tropical tree cover loss in 2018: 12 mio ha (WRI,Hansen), 4th highest annual loss since 2001
• Main driver of deforestation is agricultural
expansion:• 40% large-scale commercial agriculture• 33% local subsistence agriculture• 10% infrastructure, 10% urban expansion, 7%mining

This year FAO will launch FRA 2020!!!

AGRICULTURE, FORESTS AND THE SDGS

1990-2015: Net loss of 129 M ha of forests
Impacts on livelihoods, biodiversity and climatechange…

In 2007 REDD+ was set up to betransformational
But… there REDD+ had to battle some headwinds against it:• Political attention away from climate change and REDD+ (trade, refugesand migration)• Push back from some industries (actors)• Frustrations caused by slow progress in REDD+• Funds are not universally available, common rules not established,capacities were not there• REDD+ should be built from bottom up - but rarely taken at local scale• Technology has proved to be transformational and game changer, butnot applied universally

Phase IIfrom
20162020

PHASE 1PHASE 2

Readiness

Implementation

Phase IIIin design
PHASE 3Results
achieved and rewarded

Paris Agreement Objectives & SDGs

Phase I UN -REDD
2008 - 2016

What has REDD+ achieved?

4039151712101250

countries
aredevelopingNFMS andNFIs (5completed)45
submissionsof Reference
Emission
Levels to theUNFCCC

15
safeguards
summaries of
information
submitted tothe UNFCCC
and 14 SIS‘online’countries
haveadvancedwith theirpolicy andlegal
frameworks

countries
have madeprogressbuilding
REDD+/
FLEG
synergies

countries
haveprogressedorcompletedassessmentsof theirtenure
regimes

12 REDD+
results
submissions(9countries),
a total of
8.8 bln tCO2
emission
reductions

50 countries
haveincluded
REDD+ intheir NDCs

Where do we take it from now?
Recognition of the intermediate results of REDD+
Few reflections on: Capacity needs
 The role of technology and tools New finance opportunities
 Barriers to transformational role of REDD+

Capacity development for REDD+:
a case of forest monitoring
Much effort has been dedicated to national forest
monitoring, since 2008 especially in the context of REDD+
Headline success: 39 countries have submitted forest
reference levels to the UNFCCC
But what are the underlying changes in forest monitoring
capacity?

And where are the remaining gaps?

Country capacity in monitoring has grown rapidly
over the past 10 yearsPossible focus of capacity development inREDD+• Capacity development is needed not only for REDD+ Readinessbut for all phases of REDD+• Broader topics (benefit-sharing, carbon rights, carbon financeand offsets options, jurisdictional and nesting appraches)• Broader target groups at all levels - increasing commitment of
non-state actors and private sector, local governments,communities

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New opportunities for REDD+ finance
Enhance Access to International Funding toenhance REDD+ investments
Ex. GCF REDD+ SAP Cote d’Ivoire, Zambia, Guinea
Congo, Nepal, Honduras

REDD+ Result-BasedPayments
GCF RBPs: Chile, Brazil, Ecuador,Paraguay (Colombia, Argentina,PNG)

Trigger Private Sector Investment
Ex. EcoTierra , an impact investment
fund in the agro-forestry sector
Investment Plans (ex. E. Guinea)

Advisory on carbon financing
and pricing & benefit sharing
Ex.: Vietnam PES -carbon markets
Laos, LAC countries on carbon rights)

Access Carbon Markets

Blended Finance Initiatives
Ex. The TTLF, the Green Impact Facility

FAO-CIFOR project on transformational change in REDD+(2017-2020)• In many ways transformation become a key concept
in development assistance, with most agencies
aspiring to deliver “transformational change”• Project objective: to increase the understanding ofbarriers and triggers in REDD+ transformative
impactBarriers of transformational change in REDD+• Inequalities and fragmentation of interests• Industry and private sector not enough involved and not reflexive• Direction of transformation change is 2-ways (bottom-up & topdown)• Land tenure - central part of transformational change in REDD+• Aspiration to achieve scale, speed and depth in REDD+CHALLENGE in achieving all three dimension!

Final remarks: Tailwinds for REDD+, lets
continue the change!
• Emerging opportunities in carbon finance• Continue efforts in capacity development forREDD+• Application of tools and technologies at scale• Build innovative partnerships as commitment ofnon-state actors and private sector is increasingThank you!

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