How can FLEGT be used to achieve REDD objectives? achieve REDD objectives?

Dr Ruth Nussbaum

ProForest

www.proforest.net

FLEGT and REDD

• The aim of FLEGT is to improve forest governance and support legality in support legality in the timber sector

• The aim of REDD+ is to try to maintain (and enhance) existing forest carbon stocks

FLEGT/Forest Governance Programmes and REDD

• FLEGT and REDD are:

– Operating in the same countries

– Undertaken by many of the same actors– Undertaken by many of the same actors

– Overlapping aims

– Overlapping processes

• Both involve international agreements and national implementation

The phased approach to REDD implementation

Phase 1:

Planning

Identify drivers

Develop a plan

Develop REDD infrastructure

Payment for activities

Phase 2:

Readiness

Phase 3:

Implementation

Implement support activities

eg improved governance

Carry out pilot projects

Control emissions

Measure, report and verify

Payment for activities

Payment for results

Payment for results

Phase 1: Planning

• Countries need to identify the causes of forest loss and plan how they will be addressedbe addressed

• Growing consensus that this should be done through a consultative process involving the whole range of actors

• FLEGT has used multi-stakeholder approaches and platforms

Phase 2: Policies and Measures

• Activities which are necessary for REDD but are not directly correlated to rates of forest loss: eg– Improved governance– Improved governance

– Clarification of tenure and rights

– Building adequate capacity and human resources

– Improved monitoring and reporting

– Greater transparency and stakeholder involvement

• Many of these are addressed to some extent by FLEGT

Phase 3: Reducing emissions from forests

• Requires addressing the drivers of deforestation

Drivers of forest loss

• Commercial logging• Illegal logging• Energy (firewood, charcoal etc)

• Clearance for commercial • Clearance for commercial agriculture

• Clearance for subsistence agriculture

• Illegal clearance for agriculture

• Infrastructure and mining• Fire

Impact of FLEGT

Driver of deforestation Direct Indirect

Commercial logging �

Illegal logging �Illegal logging �

Energy (�)

Commercial agriculture

Subsistence agriculture

Illegal agriculture �

Infrastructure and mining

Fire �

Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV)

•Many of the approaches being used for legality-related monitoring should be very useful for REDD monitoringbe very useful for REDD monitoring

• Remote-sensing approaches (eg Imazon system in Brasil)

• Ground-based checks required for legality monitoring

Conclusions

• Clear overlap between FLEGT/governance programmes and some parts of REDD

• Potential for REDD to:– Learn from and build on FLEGT processes

– Utilise FLEGT outcomes

• Where governance programmes (FLEGT or others) are already being implemented REDD should build on these and avoid undermining them

• Where it is necessary to improve governance in order to achieve REDD, a FLEGT/governance programme may be a way to do this

Thank you

Ruth@ProForest.net