Index to Sessions

Click on links to access each forum session, with presentations and biographies

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

Session 5

Session 6

Session 7

Session 8

Session 9

● The forest finance landscape>>

● Enhancing coherence and coordination in the delivery of finance for forests>>

● Best use of public finance for forests to support mitigation of, and adaptation, to climate change>>

● Private finance mobilization and utilization for climate mitigation and adaptation in the forest and land sectors>>

● Breakout groups
1. Results-based payments;
2. Provision of financial resources for alternative approaches.>>

● Enhancing coherence and coordination of forest finance to ensure all forest benefits are achieved>>

● Breakout groups
1. Experience with use of resources/transfer of payments for results-based approaches;
2. Experience with provision of financial resources for alternative approaches (including JMA).>>

● Scaling up finance for forests: Banking on joint public-private schemes>>

● Breakout groups
1. Making the most of private sector contributions;
2. Financing schemes and instruments for REDD-plus and other forest activities: what works/doesn’t work>>

Opening

Opening plenary

09:30 - 10:00

Welcoming the participants and opening the forum

• Houssen Alfa Nafo & Outi Honkatukia, SCF Co-chairs
  Opening and welcome

• Mr. Maesela Kekana, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa
  Opening remarks

• Mr. Eduardo Mansur, FAO
  Opening remarks

Session 1

The forest finance landscape

10:00 - 10:45

The state of forest finance: overview of trends in type and volume of financial flow, key actors (including recipients, donors and investors), schemes and instruments utilized, and activities financed

Facilitator

• Outi Honkatukia, SCF co-chair

Presenters

• Angela Falconer, Climate Policy Initiative - (68 kB)
  Climate finance for forests in the context of the broader land-use finance architecture (2276 kB)

• Pascal Martinez, Global Environment Facility -  (5 kB)
  Financing for forests : an overview of approaches and funding priorities under the UNFCCC, CBD and UNFF (1166 kB)

Session 2

How can we enhance coherence and coordination in the delivery of finance for forests?

10:45 - 12:00

Financial opportunities and challenges in forest finance: REDD-Plus finance, finance for the sustainable management of forests, and financing of activities that impact on forests

Facilitator

• Stefan Agne, SCF member

Presenters

• Maria Sanz Sanchez, FAO -  (70 kB)
  How to enhance coherence and coordination in public and private sources of forest finance? (1590 kB)

• Donna Lee, Consultant & Till Pistorius, UNIQUE -  (147 kB)
  The Impacts of International REDD+ Finance (942 kB)

• Leticia Guimaraes, Brazil  The Warsaw Framework for REDD-Plus: Implications for national implementation and access to results-based finance(1025 kB)

Session 3

How can we best use public finance for forests to support mitigation of, and adaptation, to climate change?

12:15 - 13:30

Public funding has been the major source of financing for forest activities, but in the face of resource constraints and more complex issues on the ground, how can public funding both for climate mitigation and adaptation better be used in forest activities?

Facilitator

• Raymond Landveld, SCF member

Presenters

• Rama Chandra Reddy, World Bank  -  (4 kB)
  FCPF financing for forests (1140 kB)

• Jagjeet Sareen, CIF  -  (69 kB)
  Forest Investment Program (FIP): the experience of FIP in channeling multilateral funding (2933 kB)

• Melissa Pinfield, UK Department of Energy & Climate Change  -  (70 kB)
  The United Kingdom’s International Climate Fund Finance for Forests Case Study (830 kB)

Session 4

How can private finance be mobilized and utilized for climate mitigation and adaptation in the forest and land sectors?

14:45 - 16:00

Looking at the growing flow of private finance for REDD-Plus and other forest and land related activities: What schemes and instruments have worked? What can we learn from the existing practices for scaling up? How can national entities be more coordinated in terms of mobilizing REDD-plus finance and other types of forest finance, and what policy frameworks need to be in place? What role has public finance played, or could play, to catalyze shifts in private finance for mitigation and adaptation in forest activities?

Facilitator

• Pascal Martinez, GEF

Presenters

• Peter Holmgren, CIFOR -  (71 kB)
  Outcomes of GLF: the investment case - insights from the recent London meeting, in particular opportunities to promote forest friendly investment among private investors from developing and developed countries (1412 kB)

• Goseki Kazuhiro, Japan  -  (97 kB) &
  Yetti Rusli, Indonesia  -  (94 kB)
   Japan’s Public-Private Platform for REDD-Plus (JP3-REDD-Plus) to facilitate private sector involvements, and experiences, lessons learned and future expectations from Indonesia (2694 kB)

Session 5

Breakout groups:
1. Results-based payments;
2. The provision of financial resources for alternative approaches.

16:15-18:00

Generating a deeper understanding on:
1.The challenges and opportunities of implementing REDD-Plus actions that produce results and of delivering payments in the context of overall financing for forests: How to establish the policy and finance infrastructure required to implement REDD-Plus and how to mobilize finance for them? How to ensure the effectiveness and fairness in allocating limited REDD-Plus resources in light of the broad range of national circumstances?
2. How to ensure sustainable investments for alternative approaches?

Facilitator

• Stefan Agne and Raymond Landveld, SCF members

Introductory presenters

• Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, UNREDD  -  (39 kB)
  Presentation (1876 kB)

• Victor Kabengele Wa Kadilu, DRC  -  (287 kB)
  Mai-Ndombe financial structure and incentives approach (1626 kB)

Discussion leaders

• Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, UN REDD

• Ben Singer, UNFF

Rapporteurs

• Angela Falconer, CPI

• Till Pistorius, UNIQUE

8 September, Day 2:

Financing for forests, taking into account different policy approaches:

case studies

Session 6

How can we enhance coherence and coordination of forest finance to ensure all forest benefits are achieved?

09:15 - 10:50

Sharing experience of collaborative initiatives amongst international public and private financing entities and implementing organizations/ communities in developing countries on forest programs and projects that contribute to climate mitigation and adaptation, as well as produce other ecological, social and economic benefits

Facilitator

• Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, UN REDD

Presenters

• Tao Wang, Green Climate Fund (GCF) Secretariat  -  (68 kB)
   State of work on forest and REDD-Plus financing by the GCF (564 kB)

• Ben Singer, UNFF  -  (5 kB)
   Climate finance for forests in the context of the broader forest finance, and the links between the new Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network and the UNFCCC process (1070 kB)

• Marigold Norman, Overseas Development Institute  -  (71 kB)
   Progress in REDD-Plus finance (505 kB)

Session 7

Breakout groups:
1. Experience with use of resources/the transfer of payments for results-based approaches;
2. Experience with the provision of financial resources for alternative approaches (including JMA).

11:15 - 12:30

Generating deeper understanding on/highlighting:
1. How could international and national financing entities better align their policies and investment priorities with the Warsaw REDD-Plus framework and further support readiness of developing countries to implement results-based actions, including through the consideration of non-carbon benefits? How can the most sustainable approaches (as regards preventing leakage and reversals) be promoted and rewarded?

2. Technical issues associated with existing and emerging systems for transferring payments under results-based finance (for example how “results” are defined, timelines and formats for reporting, disbursement triggers, agreed processes and conditions, fiduciary requirements, restrictions on use of funding, transfer to longer-term finance models).

3. Existing experiences with various domestic policy approaches to attract and utilize forest finance.

4. Joint mitigation and adaptation aspects in forest activities: how can they be enhanced, what support should be mobilized for them and how?

Facilitator

• Raymond Landveld, SCF member

Introductory presenters

• Leticia Guimaraes, Brazil
   Brazil’s experience in mobilizing and using domestic and international forest finance: national credit programs, multilateral funding and bilateral funding (Amazon Fund) (4579 kB)

• Paul Oquist, SCF member and Minister and Private Secretary of National Policies in Nicaragua  -  (79 kB)
  Nicaragua: nationally funded reforestation for adaptation

Discussion leaders

• Donna Lee, Consultant

• Yaw Osafo, Ghana

Rapporteurs

• Adeline Dontenville, EFI

• Jagjeet Sareen, CIF

Session 8

Scaling up finance for forests: How to bank on joint public-private schemes

14:00-15:00

Best practices and case studies from different countries showcasing different types of forest mitigation and adaptation activities. What have practitioners and governments learned from their experiences, both good and bad? What are the challenges in replicating and scaling up? Is there a role for demand side measures?

Facilitator

• Outi Honkatukia, SCF co-chair

Presenters

• Iain Henderson, UNEP FI  -  (72 kB)
   Fiscal incentives for agricultural commodity production: Options to forge compatibility with REDD+ (8819 kB)

• Elizabeth Philip, Malaysia  -  (778 kB)
   Focusing on the “plus” of REDD-Plus (4981 kB)

Session 9

Breakout groups:
1. Making the most of private sector contributions;
2. Financing schemes and instruments for REDD-plus and other forest activities:
what works/doesn’t work

15:30-16:30

Generating a deeper understanding on:
1. Opportunities and challenges to involve the private sector as an investor, intermediary and implementer in REDD-Plus and other forest-related activities
2. Opportunities and challenges in using innovative schemes and instruments to finance REDD-Plus and other forest-related activities—with a focus on public finance instruments that can catalyze private finance

Facilitator

• Stefan Agne, SCF member

Presenters

• Evy von Pfeil, Germany  -  (6 kB)
   Germany: REDD+ early movers (1571 kB)

• Gustavo Freitas, Peru  -  (4 kB)
   Private sector participation in financing Peru’s forest and climate change strategy (810 kB)

Discussion leaders

• Iain Henderson, UNEP FI

• Federica Bietta, CfRN secretariat

Rapporteurs

• Ben Singer, UNFF

• Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, UN REDD

16:30-17:00

Reporting back from break-out groups

17:00-17:30

Closure of the forum

Additional papers shared by participants at the forum

Paper

Shared by

 Look to the Forests: How Performance Payments Can Help Slow Climate Change (546 kB) ,
a draft from Center for Global Development

Leticia Guimaraes, Brazil

Subsidies to Key Commodities Driving Forest Loss,
a working paper from ODI

Iain Henderson, UNEP FI