Webinar: From reporting to payments: Current state and trends of REDD+ reporting to the UNFCCC
GFOI partner the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing a webinar to examine the current state and trends of REDD+ reporting (*) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Date: 28 October
Time: 14:00-15:00 CET
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Objectives
- Highlight the important progress on REDD+ reporting to the UNFCCC
- Reflect on quality of UNFCCC-reported REDD+ results and their ability to underpin results-based payments
- Jointly think about likely future development of REDD+ reporting
- Launch the paper “From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the UNFCCC – 2020 update”
Agenda
Why do countries dedicate their efforts to reporting their REDD+ results to the UNFCCC? How can they further improve their data quality and will their efforts be rewarded with results-based payments? These are some of the questions that will be addressed by the speakers during this webinar, which includes representatives of REDD+ countries, GCF, NICFI and other GFOI partners.
- Margaret Athieno Mwebesa, National REDD+ Focal Point, Uganda
- Ellen Bruzelius-Backer, Policy Director, Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
- Juan Chang, Principal Forest and Land Use Specialist, Green Climate Fund (GCF)
- Peter Iversen, Team Lead (Land Use), United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- Alfred Rungol, General Manager MRV, Papua New Guinea
- COMING SOON! From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the UNFCCC – 2020 update
- From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the UNFCCC – 2019 update
This appointment is the sixth of the #GFOI2020 webinar series organized in lieu of the GFOI 2020 Plenary, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contacts
For more information, please contact Marieke Sandker at [email protected]
(*) Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries.