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Forest Day 3

13 December, Copenhagen, Denmark

Organiser: CIRFOR

The Forest Day 3 will be held on 13th of December as a coinciding event with the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. It will feature 3 parallel Sub-plenary Sessions, followed by 8 Learning Events.



Topics of Sub-plenary Sessions will address forests and climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as forest degradation and restoration. Learning Events will explore in depth some of the key issues rose in the Sub-plenary Sessions and will discuss the practical implementation of the Copenhagen outcomes at national and sub-national level.

The topics of Learning Events are: 

  • Scope of the global climate agreement (REDD + operation elements e.g. conservation, forest management, and enhancement of carbon sinks)
  • Boreal and temperate forests and climate change (adaptation of forests, sustaining and enhancing their mitigation role)
  • Governance and institutional capacity for adaptation and mitigation (governance structures and institutions at national and local levels)
  • Rural livelihoods (the potential social impacts of REDD initiatives, the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples and local communities)
  • Financing REDD+ (risks and benefits of using carbon markets to finance REDD+/ role of the private sector in REDD+)
  • Landscape approaches to adaptation and mitigation (ecosystems-based adaptation, links between climate change adaptation and mitigation in landscapes?
  • Measuring and monitoring, baselines and leakage (lessons learned, methodologies, baseline settings and monitoring approaches, engagement of Indigenous Peoples and local communities into measuring, monitoring and reporting)
  • Forest biodiversity and climate change (contribution of SFM and conservation of biodiversity, prioritisation of biodiversity conservation as a co-benefit of REDD initiatives) 

CEPF has submitted a proposal to provide speakers and to co-host some of the Learning Events.

Additional information available at Forest Day 3 website



Published by Marta Gaworska 13.12.2009