Transcript CI`s Climate Change Strategy

CI’s
Climate ChangeStrategy
January, 2008
2007
A Watershed Year for Climate Change
 Unprecedented global awareness and action
 Global consensus rapidly taking shape
on need to limit warming
 Policy processes underway for global treaty and U.S.
legislation
 Corporations and consumers taking voluntary action to
reduce emissions
Implications for CI
 Need to advocate deep reductions in CO2
Emissions to protect biodiversity
Implications for CI
 Forest conservation must be part of the solution
Implications for CI
 Biodiversity will still be vulnerable—need to focus
on adaptation
Implications for CI
 Some energy alternatives threaten biodiversity—
need strategy to mitigate
Impact to Date
Adaptation—Helping People and Biodiversity
S
urvive
 Research to integrate climate
change into conservation
outcomes
 Regional centers of excellence
to assess vulnerability and
ensure ecological and social
resilience in priority landscapes
and seascapes
 Working to ensure that global
adaptation initiatives address
both impacts on biodiversity and
valuable adaptive services
ecosystems provide
Forest Carbon - Feet in the Mud
 Carbon projects underway
or in development in 11
countries
 Protecting and restoring
forests creates multiple
benefits:
 Biodiversity conservation
 Carbon sequestration
 Sustainable livelihoods
 Resilience to climate change
 Field projects build
confidence to shape policies
and markets
Forest Carbon - Head in theSky
 Setting the market standards for forest carbon
 Forming coalitions to include forest carbon in global
treaty and U.S. legislation
 Partnering with corporate leaders to reduce emissions and
invest in conservation carbon
 Launching Conservation & Community Carbon Fund to
invest in key biodiversity areas
Making BiofuelsSafe for Biodiversity
 Applying CI’s scientific expertise
to help key countries create
spatial plans for biofuel expansion
 Partnering with global
agribusiness leaders to make
conservation investments in
agricultural landscapes
 Working with coalitions of industry
leaders, governments, and NGOs
to set industry standards for
sustainability in biofuel production
CI Niche andStrategic Goals
CI’s Niche and Purpose
 Maintain and restore biodiverse
ecosystems to mitigate climate
change and adapt to its impacts
S
trategic Goals
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S
cience: integrating adaptation and mitigation to
optimize biodiversity, carbon, and economic benefits
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Analyze vulnerability of outcomes to climate change
Link between human and ecosystem adaptation
Method for relating biodiversity value to carbon – “Biodiversity
bonus points”
Model ocean impacts
Protected areas – what’s needed to adapt?
REDD methodology – resolve stock/flow problem and
indigenous peoples; test accounting and other methodologies to
inform
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trategic Goals
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Policy: International and Domestic level
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Ensure forests and land use are incorporated in mitigation
actions
Ensure that biodiversity/ecosystems are incorporated in
adaptation actions
Support governments to mitigate biodiversity impacts of
biofuels expansion (and other climate mitigation options that
could harm biodiversity)
Field/Implementation
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Strategic set of regional projects to demonstrate and test
methodologies for multiple benefit mitigation and adaptation
activities
Ensure that we incorporate climate (adaptation + mitigation)
throughout all we do – long term
Build local capacity (RAP-like team)
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trategic Goals
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Markets and finance
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Help mobilize major investments for land-based mitigation
activities – project start-up, demonstration, and/or crediting
(Community
Continue shaping rules of the game through standards setting
(CCBS, VCS, etc.)
Influence where the private/public $$ flows – prioritizing highest
value multiple-benefit projects/activities
Biofuels/taxation schemes
Communications
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Bridge the conservation and development divide
Connect our agenda to individual lives (US, other audiences)
Key Challenges
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Revenue source for CI core costs
Stronger focus across the board on people/communities
What’s the need for CI core capacity and how will we scale
up? Can we re-purpose existing capacity?
Can we prioritize our strategic goals? Identify key gaps and
levers, and prioritize based on CI’s ability to influence?
CI’s Overall Climate Team
Glenn Prickett
Marc Steininger
Niels Crone
Laura Ledwith
Radhika Dave
Russell A. Mittermeier
Michael Totten
Will Turner
James MacKinnon
Toby Janson-Smith
Olivier Langrand
Alexandre Prado
Christine Dragisic
Lisa Handy
Iwan Wijayanto
Joanna Durbin
Susan Stone
Frank Hawkins
Sonal Pandya
Yasushi Hibi
Ricardo Hernandez
Claude Gascon
Rebecca Chacko
Alex Peal
Fred Boltz
Jorgen Thomsen
Yi He
Celia Harvey
Jennifer Morris
Fabio Arjona
Ben Campbell
Christopher Stone
Leon Rajaobelina
Emily Pidgeon
Karen A. Ziffer
Chris Margules
Olaf Zerbock
Liz Siddle
Jatna Supriatna
Grace Wong
Laura Bowling
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
Mohamed Bakarr
Tom Cohen
Benjamin Vitale
Tom Brooks
Christian Heltne
Lee Hannah