2020 International Seminar organized by REDD Research and Development Center, FFPRI, Japan

REDD-plus Start-up Year 2020
Roadmap to Result-based and Transferable Outcomes for Sustainable Development

Keynote Speakers:

Ms. Malgorzata Buszko-Briggs(Programme Officer, FAO/UN-REDD)

Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw
(Director General, Forest Department, Ministry of Natural Resources
and Environmental Conservation, Myanmar)

January21(Tue)2020

10:00〜17:30 (9:30 open)
Ito Hall, Tokyo University(7 minutes walk from“ Hongo-sanchome” station on Tokyo Metro line)

Language: Japanese and English(Simultaneous translation)

Please register
online atFor more information,please visit atOrganizer: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan
Co-organizer: International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan Public-Private Platform for REDD+Under the auspices of: Forestry Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, The Remote Sensing Society ofJapan, The Japanese Forest Society, The Japan Society of Tropical Ecology, The Japan Society of Forest Planning2020 International Seminar organized by REDD Research and Development Center, FFPRI, Japan

REDD-plus Start-up Year 2020

Roadmap to Result-based and Transferable Outcomes for Sustainable Development
Objective

Keynote Speakers

The seminar aims to overview the history of development andtrend of both technical and institutional aspects of REDD-plus
and explore current and future opportunities including international transfer of mitigation outcomes that will encourage participation and private sectors and contribute for countries tofulfill the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and toachieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also will
explore the opportunities under voluntary mechanisms toenhance climate change mitigation potentials including by theJoint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) which is proposed and started
implementation by Japan and partner countries.
Since its establishment in 2010, REDD Research and Development Center of FFPRI-Japan has been conducting research anddevelopment of tools and guidance which help both public andprivate sector practitioners to understand and develop
REDD-plus preparations and activities. In this seminar, outcomesof the 10 years’ work by the Center will be disseminated in addition to the exchange of the knowledge and information provided by distinguished experts from various part of the world anddiscussions by the expert panel.
Participants are encouraged to display their panel presentation at the exhibition area in the venue as well. All of the day,there will be full of opportunities of exchanging and updating
the latest information about REDD-plus that will promote thestart-up in 2020 through forest based solutions which will contribute to sustainable development by a no-one left behindway.

Ms. Malgorzata Buszko-Briggs
Programme Officer, FAO/UN-REDD

Ms. Malgorzata Buszko-Brigs currently
leads FAO REDD+ team as Team Leader
within the Forestry Policy and Resources
Division, and acts as FAO's Coordinatorfor UN-REDD programme. She has been
based in FAO's Headquarter in Rome foralmost 10 years. Before joining FAO she worked for intergovernmental processes and multi-lateral environmental agreements and served as senior advisor to governments, publicorganizations and the private sector.

Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw
Director General, Forest Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and EnvironmentalConservation, Myanmar

Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw has been serving as
Director General of Forest Department,
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Myanmar since2012. He worked as National ProjectManager of the ITTO project entitled “In-situ and Ex-situ Conservation of Teak (Tectona grandis) to support Sustainable
Forest Management” during 2006-2008. He holds M.Sc. in
Tropical Forestry and Ph.D in Forestry Science from Universityof Göttingen, Germany in 1995 and 2003, respectively.

Overall agenda
Keynote presentations

Ms. Malgorzata Buszko-Briggs（FAO/UN-REDD）
Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw（Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Myanmar）

Session 1: REDD-plus tools, guidelines and technologies

Dr. Sato Tamotsu（FFPRI）
Dr. Sandro Federici（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change（IPCC））
Dr. Ruth Turia (Forest Policy and Planning Directorate, PNG）

Session 2: REDD-plus voluntary cooperative approaches and result based finances
Dr. Ehara Makoto（FFPRI）
Mr. Morita Takahiro（Japan International Cooperation Agency（JICA））
Ms. Uga Maiko（Ministry of the Environment, Japan）
Ms. Sylvia Mayta (AIDER, Peru)

Panel discussion
Dr. Uraguchi Aya (Conservation International Japan)
Other Speekers

Contact: Ms. Emiko Sano, Secretariat of International Seminar, Japan International Forestry Promotion &Cooperation Center (JIFPRO)TEL: 03-5689-3450
E-mail: redd-plus@jifpro.or.jp
Organizer: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan