Negotiation Indices

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ecbi
european capacity building initiative initiative
européenne de renforcement des capacités
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in
Developing Countries Fellows Recommendations,
Oxford Seminar 2007
for sustained capacity building in support of
international climate change negotiations pour un
renforcement durable des capacités en appui aux
négociations internationales sur les changements
climatiques
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Objectives

• Assisting developing countries to achieve
  sustainable development and fulfill the
  objectives
• of UNFCCC
• 2. Encouraging additional efforts to reduce
  emissions
• 3. Promoting biodiversity conservation

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Sources of funding

• A combination of different financing sources
• A fund for specific activities, including
  capacity building
• Market mechanisms, free and oriented
• International sources (multilateral and bilateral
  initiatives)

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Distribution of incentives for REDD

• The establishment of criteria and modalities for
  REDD activities should be the first priority.
• Benefits to be inclusive, therefore, a flexible
  framework can help including actions at different
  levels
• -National
• -Regional
• -Sectoral
• -Project based
• A twin approach national and project based
  could take care of land tenure particularities

5
Technical and methodological challenges

• Market based approaches are promising but
  methodologically complex and may lead to problems
  of distribution
• Monitoring forest cover is important - we cannot
  manage something that we cannot measure
• Apply (develop) a gold standard to CERs for REDD
  activities

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Capacity building

• Developing countries will need assistance with
  monitoring, measuring and participating in any
  mechanism which will ultimately be decided
• Encourage South-South cooperative to better
  understand the process, assess forest stocks
  through inventories (i.e. initiative of Brazil to
  cover African forests).