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 [...]

Status of rights in current climate change and forest negotiations and within major multilateral organizations

Michelle Medeiros, the Africa Forest Coordinator for Greenpeace International, looked at the different initiative of multilateral organizations in dealing with forests and climate change and the role community rights play in each. She covers the UNFCCC, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), several World Bank Initiatives (Climate Investment Fund, Forest Carbon Partenrship Facility, and the [...]

Rights and equity impacts of different financing mechanisms, forest carbon trading schemes and funds

Gary Bull, Professor at the Department of Forest Resources Management of the University of British Columbia presented three case studies that were looking at issues around contract design and revenue distribution from forest carbon projects and where trying to assess the influence of social capital on successful project implementation and if property rights and governance [...]