Enhancing coherence and coordination of
forest financing
Partner: The 2015 Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance was held in conjunction with the 14th World Forestry Congress (WFC).
Organization of the forum: The forum had a two-day format. It incorporated both plenary sessions and breakout group sessions. More than 180 people attended the forum, including representatives from governments, forest and financial institutions, the private sector and civil society.
Full programme of the Forum
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7 September, Day 1: Issues related to finance for forests: an overview
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Opening
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Opening plenary
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09:30 - 10:00
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Welcoming the participants and opening the forum
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Houssen Alfa Nafo & Outi Honkatukia, SCF Co-chairs
Opening and welcome
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Mr. Maesela Kekana, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa
Opening remarks
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Mr. Eduardo Mansur, FAO
Opening remarks
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Session 1
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The forest finance landscape
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10:00 - 10:45
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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
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Session 4
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How can private finance be mobilized and utilized for climate mitigation and adaptation in the forest and land sectors?
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14:45 - 16:00
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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?
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Session 5
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Breakout groups:
1. Results-based payments;
2. The provision of financial resources for alternative approaches.
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16:15-18:00
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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?
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Introductory presenters
Discussion leaders
Rapporteurs
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Angela Falconer, CPI
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Till Pistorius, UNIQUE
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8 September, Day 2:
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Financing for forests, taking into account different policy approaches:
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case studies
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Session 7
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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).
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11:15 - 12:30
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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?
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Introductory presenters
Discussion leaders
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Donna Lee, Consultant
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Yaw Osafo, Ghana
Rapporteurs
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Adeline Dontenville, EFI
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Jagjeet Sareen, CIF
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Session 8
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Scaling up finance for forests: How to bank on joint public-private schemes
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14:00-15:00
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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?
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Last updated: 15 June 2016
Impressions from the 2015 SCF forum
