REDD+ IMPLEMENTATION ANDSUSTAINABLE FOREST
MANAGEMENT
Date: Friday June 27, 2014 11:30 - 13:00
Venue: Austria Room, FAO, Rome
Intepretation provided in English, French and Spanish
OBJECTIVESThis WFW event will share the outcomes of the International Seminar “REDD+Implementation and Sustainable Forest Management” held in Tokyo in February 2014, withexperts and policy makers from the forestry sector. The main goal is to explore synergies
between policies for sustainable forest management (SFM) and for REDD+, so as to turn SFM
into a mean and an opportunity for REDD+, as well as turning REDD+ into an engine for SFM.
ORGANIZERSThe seminar is co-organized by the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI),
and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
PROGRAMME

1. Opening - Mr. Ichiro Nagame (Forestry Agency Japan)
Patrick Durst (FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok)
2. Presentations• SFM and REDD+ : Two discourses , one ultimate goal - Dr. Patrick Durst (FAO)• How is SFM facilitated in the REDD+ activities? National Forest Monitoring systems inthe context of REDD+ - Dr. María J. Sanz Sánchez (FAO)• Outcomes and findings from the International Seminar “REDD+ Implementation andSustainable Forest Management” - Dr. Mitsuo Matsumoto (FFPRI)
3. Discussion: “The role of SFM in REDD+ implementation: Enabling environments,
opportunities, and synergies” - facilitated by Patrick Durst (FAO)
4. Closing remarks: Dr. Mitsuo Matsumoto (FFPRI)

Catering provided after the event

SUMMARY OF KEY MESSAGES FROMINTERNATIONAL SEMINAR“REDD+ IMPLEMENTATION AND SFM”
•SFM and REDD+ objectives can be achieved more effectively by fully exploitingsynergies. Practices and experiences from SFM can contribute to the design ofeffective REDD+ strategies and implementation approaches, while REDD+
architecture, actions and lessons can contribute to achieving the objectives of SFM
that have been slowly progressed in the tropics.

•Science has an important role to play in both SFM and REDD+. Both SFM andREDD+ require better knowledge.

•REDD+ strategies will only be successful when they are built on a soundunderstanding of local realities, especially of how local communities view theworlds, their livelihoods and aspirations. Local people should be viewed as key
partners for SFM and REDD+.

•International financial and technical support for REDD+ must be tailored to assist
governments in achieving their broader SFM goals and to reflect national and local
realities. For example, investments in national forest monitoring systems (NFMS)
should not just build the capacity to measure carbon stocks and monitor
safeguards.

•SFM and REDD+ require major transformation in the forestry sectors of somecountries. Governments are key to creating and maintaining enabling
environments for REDD+, while other actors are essential for materializing actions.

•Increasing political will to reduce deforestation and forest degradation and topromote SFM within a wider development agenda will be vital to the achievementof REDD+ and sustainable development.

•Successful REDD+ require space for stakeholders to participate at multiple levels indesign and implementation.

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The recent increase in REDD+ projects presents challenges but also provides
learning opportunities.

•SFM and REDD+ cannot be realized through actions in the forestry sector alone.
Good governance and land-use planning under the well-designed coordination
between the differed land-use sectors are key to landscape approaches thatprovide a framework for analysis and planning to tackle these drivers.

Link to presentations and proceedings of the International Seminar “REDD+ Implementation and Sustainable Forest
Management” held on 6-7 February
http://www.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/redd-rdc/en/seminars/reports/2014/02/06/01.html#programnew

ISBN 978-4-905304-15-9

Link to technical manual “REDD-plus COOKBOOK” (English, Spanish and Japanese)
http://www.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/redd-rdc/en/reference/cookbook.html

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation andforest Degradation and the Role of Conservation,Sustainable Management of Forests and Enhancement

COOKBOOKHOW TO MEASURE AND MONITOR FOREST CARBON

REDD+ Cookbook

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