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 Decision
9/CP.19: Work programme on results-based finance to progress the full implementation of the
activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70
The COP in this decision, inter alia:
- Reaffirms that results-based finance may come from a wide variety of sources, public and private,
bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources
- Encourages financing entities, including the Green Climate Fund in a key role, to channel
adequate and predictable results-based finance in a fair and balanced manner, and to work with a view
to increasing the number of countries that are in a position to obtain and receive payments for
results-based actions
- Decides to establish an information hub on the REDD Web Platform, to publish information on the
results and corresponding results-based payments
- Requests the Standing Committee on Finance to consider the issue of financing for forests in its
work on coherence and coordination
- Recognizes the importance of incentivizing non-carbon benefits for the long-term sustainability
of the implementation of the activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70
Decision
10/CP.19: Coordination of support for the implementation of activities in relation to mitigation
actions in the forest sector by developing countries, including institutional arrangements
The COP in this decision, inter alia:
- Invites interested Parties to designate a national entity or focal point to serve as liaison with
the secretariat and bodies under the Convention, on coordination of support, and may also be
nominated to receive and obtain results-based payments
- Recognizes that in order to address issues related to the coordination of support, a number of
needs and functions were identified
- Encourages national entities/focal points, Parties and relevant entities financing REDD-plus to
meet, on a voluntary basis, to discuss the needs and functions identified to address issues relating
to coordination of support; with the first meeting to be held in conjunction with SBI 41 (December
2014)
- Requests the Subsidiary Body for Implementation, at the latest, at its forty-seventh session
(November-December 2017) to review the outcomes of these meetings
Decision
11/CP.19: Modalities for national forest monitoring systems
The COP in this decision, inter alia:
- Affirms that the activities referred to in this decision are undertaken in the context of the
provision of adequate and predictable support to developing country Parties
- Decides national forest monitoring systems should be guided by the most recent IPCC guidance and
guidelines, as adopted or encouraged by the COP
- Also decides that national forest monitoring systems should provide data and information that are
transparent, consistent over time, suitable for MRV, and build upon existing systems while being
flexible and allowing for improvement
Decision
12/CP.19: The timing and the frequency of presentations of the summary of information on how all
the safeguards referred to in decision 1/CP.16, appendix I, are being addressed and respected
The COP in this decision, inter alia:
- Agrees that the summary of information on how all of the safeguards referred to in decision
1/CP.16, appendix I, are being addressed and respected throughout the implementation of the
activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70, could also be provided, on a voluntary
basis, via the REDD Web Platform
- Decides that developing country Parties should start providing the summary of information after
the start of the implementation of activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70
- Also decides that the frequency for subsequent presentations of the summary of information should
be consistent with the provisions for submissions of national communications and, on a voluntary
basis, via the REDD Web Platform
Decision
13/CP.19: Guidelines and procedures for the technical assessment of submissions from Parties on
proposed forest reference emission levels and/or forest reference levels
The COP in this decision, inter alia:
- Decides that each submission of forest reference emission levels and/or forest reference levels
shall be subject to a technical assessment
- Invites Parties and relevant international organizations to support capacity-building for
development and assessment of forest reference emission levels and/or forest reference levels
- Adopts the guidelines and procedures for the technical assessment, as contained in the annex to
this decision
Decision
14/CP.19: Modalities for measuring, reporting and verifying
The COP in this decision, inter alia:
- Decides that measuring, reporting and verifying anthropogenic forest-related emissions by sources
and removals by sinks, forest carbon stocks, and forest carbon stock and forest-area changes is to be
consistent with the methodological guidance provided in decision 4/CP.15, and any guidance on the
measurement, reporting and verification of nationally appropriate mitigation actions by developing
country Parties as agreed by the COP
- Decides that data and information should be provided through a technical annex to the biennial
update reports, underlining that the submission of the technical annex is voluntary and in the
context of results-based payments
- Further decides to include two additional LULUCF experts in the technical team of experts for the
international consultation and analysis of results-based actions reported in a technical annex to the
biennial update reports, and agrees that these LULUCF experts will develop a technical report on
their analysis of the technical annex and identified areas for technical improvement
- Also agrees that results-based actions that may be eligible to appropriate market-based
approaches that could be developed by the COP may be subject to any further specific modalities for
verification
Decision
15/CP.19: Addressing the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation
The COP in this decision, inter alia:
- Encourages Parties, organizations and the private sector to take action to reduce the drivers
- Also encourages to continue work to address drivers, and to share information
- Further encourages developing country Parties to take note of the information shared
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