Session 5: Funds and Financing Strategies: Steps to Protect Rights

Joelle Chassard, Manager of the World Bank’s Carbon Finance Unit, made a presentation on the Forest Carbon Partnership. She noted the massive capacity building activities needed to implement REDD. The FCPF, she said, is only a catalyst for a REDD market, and that “$300 million will not save the world’s forests. The FCPF follows a [...]

Summary of Day 1

The chairs of the morning and afternoons sessions Kyeretwie Opoku and Robin Mearns offered short summaries of the day from their perspectives Kyeretwie Opoku stated several issues where a consensus seems to be emerging from the group: The climate crises presents an opportunity and acts as a catalyst for addressing problems we have had in [...]

Session 2: The role of land rights in facilitating adaptation and climate-resilient development

Jesse Ribot, Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Illinois, presented on Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation: Toward a framework of climate change action. He emphasized the different contributions of two analysis frameworks: impact, and vulnerability analysis. Impact analysis allows to identify the likely consequences of climate change under fixed conditions. It does explain the [...]