Transcript International Forest Carbon Initiative

International Forest Carbon Initiative
FCPF Steering Committee Meeting, Wednesday 9 July 2008
IFCI Overview
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Australia has committed $A200 million over five years, from July 2007, to
support development and adoption of REDD as an effective and equitable
mitigation option, in line with the Bali Action Plan
Aims are to:
 increase international forest carbon monitoring and accounting
capacity
 undertake practical demonstration activities to show how REDD can
be included in a future international climate change framework
 contribute to and/or coordinate closely with other bilateral and
multilateral efforts to develop and learn from REDD initiatives
Three broad elements:
 Global partnerships: coordination, financing, research and evaluation,
concept development
 Bilateral forest carbon partnerships: Indonesia and Papua New
Guinea, formalised at Head of Government level
 Carbon monitoring services: regional in scope, progressively linked to
a global system
IFCI is a whole-of-government initiative, with implementation jointly
managed by AusAID and the Department of Climate Change
Global Partnerships
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$US10 million contribution to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s
Readiness Mechanism
 complemented by ongoing engagement in the development of the Forest
Investment Fund/Program within the Strategic Climate Fund
$A3 million research and evaluation partnership with the Center for
International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia, to help
meet the need for further research on policy and technical issues associated
with REDD, and contribute to global learning from demonstration activities
$A1.5 million to support international NGOs, in partnership with local and
national governments, to develop concepts for REDD demonstration activities
 NGOs have strong local knowledge and are already supporting incipient
local government initiatives, but their ideas need to be better linked to
national REDD strategy development
Ongoing dialogue and coordination with other key bilateral donors (including
the UK, Norway, and Germany) on multilateral and bilateral issues and
programs
Indonesia-Australia
Forest Carbon Partnership I
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In progress since mid-2007; formalised at Head of Government level in June
2008
Key areas of the Partnership:
 policy development and capacity building to support participation in
relevant international negotiations and future carbon markets;
 technical support for Indonesia to develop its national forest carbon
accounting and monitoring system; and
 development of large-scale demonstration activities, and the provision of
related enabling assistance, to trial approaches to REDD.
Working closely with the World Bank, UK, Germany who constitute the donor
membership of the “Indonesia Forest Climate Alliance”
Indonesia-Australia
Forest Carbon Partnership II
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Includes $A30 million toward the $A100 million Kalimantan Forest Carbon
Partnership (KFCP), which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the
deforestation, drying and burning of peatlands by up to 700 Mt CO2-e over 30
years, by:
 preventing deforestation of up to 70,000 hectares of standing forest
 rehabilitating 200,000 hectares of degraded peatland
 reforesting up to 70,000 hectares of rehabilitated peatland
KFCP progress to date: framework design close to finalised; next step is full
demonstration activity design and implementation, July to December 2008
A further $A10 million has been committed for REDD enabling assistance at
the national level, which is being used to:
 support the development of a national policy and strategy for REDD
 support the development of a national Forest Resource Information System
(FRIS), including a national carbon accounting system
 build on past Australian assistance in fire prevention, monitoring and
management
Enabling assistance progress to date: Forestry minister will shortly issue a
detailed decree on REDD, supported by Australia and others through the
Indonesia Forest Climate Alliance; first phase of FRIS design now complete;
and fire-related assistance scoped and now mobilising
Papua New Guinea-Australia Forest
Carbon Partnership
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Formalised at Head of Government level in March 2008; less advanced
than the Indonesia-Australia Partnership
Key areas of work:
 Policy dialogue: to coordinate policies on REDD and support
negotiations on the development of market-based incentives for REDD
in developing countries
 Forest carbon monitoring and measurement: work actively together
to build Papua New Guinea’s forest carbon monitoring and accounting
capacity, drawing on Australia’s experience in national carbon
accounting and measurement
 Participation in global carbon markets: exchange experience and
expertise that will support both countries’ participation in international
carbon markets, and identify and implement REDD demonstration
activities.
Initial allocation of $A3 million to support these areas of work, particularly
the development of a national carbon accounting system.
Carbon Monitoring Services
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Strategic partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative, announced in
February 2008, will see Australia’s National Carbon Accounting System
adopted as a key platform in the rolling out of a global forest carbon
monitoring system
Proceeding with establishment of additional remote sensing capacity in
northern Australia to serve the Asia-Pacific region, which will:
 Provide high-quality, low-cost forest carbon data to a broad group of
Asia-Pacific countries on request
 In Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, complement Australian
assistance in the establishment of national forest carbon monitoring
systems and related institutional capacity
Australia’s Department of Climate Change is working with Japan, Thailand
and other holders of satellite imagery archives to access and make
available to Asia-Pacific countries processed historical data to inform
development of national baselines
IFCI and the FCPF
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Commonalities:
 Shared objectives: exploring feasibility of REDD approaches to inform
UNFCCC discussions on post-2012 framework
 Shared commitment to partnership with national governments,
methodological rigour and learning by doing
 Shared experience of supporting Indonesia’s transition to REDD
readiness, prior to formal establishment of FCPF
Complementarities:
 IFCI able to provide early readiness assistance, as in Indonesia, while
FCPF organised financing, governance and administrative
arrangements
 IFCI’s bilateral elements focused on Australia’s near neighbours and
consequently have very strong political buy-in
 IFCI able to operate in FCPF’s “missing middle”, directly and also in
future through the Forest Investment Fund/Program
 IFCI not constructed on a seller-buyer partnership model like FCPF →
possibly more flexibility to experiment with different forms of REDD
 IFCI a platform for leveraging Australian experience in carbon
monitoring and accounting, and other areas such as fire prevention
and management