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Thanks,
Gina
Can I ask for a quick favour from you?
Thanks,
Gina
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There is currently no provision for soil carbon sequestration within the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and overall there are very few financing mechanisms that support agricultural mitigation.
Panel:
Mr Peter Holmgren, Director Environment, Climate Change and Bioenergy at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome
Dr Ademola Braimoh, Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist, Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD) at the World Bank, Washington
Dr Joan Kagwanja, Policy Officer at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Nairobi
Mr Juan Hoffmaister, Negotiator for Bolivia on Agriculture and Researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Stockholm
Mr Amos Wekesa, Environment and Climate Change Advisor to the Vi-Agroforestry program of the Swedish Cooperative Centre (SCC), Kenya
Ms Shefali Sharma, Senior Program Officer of Trade and Global Governance at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), Minneapolis
This event was organised and moderated by the Swede Melinda Fones- herself a farmer-
(P.S. She did NOT look too happy- maybe due to the vast expense-maybe due to lack of interest..But I am very grateful that she allowed me to attend- Imagine Bio-char??!!)
An Edmonton Couple, who run the Captain Hook Tourist Business down the road, explained to me the Restoration of the beach- which had been devastated by Hurricane Juan, a few years ago; And that a Norwegian business had dug up sand and rebuilt the beach P , which is now the Jewel of the Caribbean. Ingenuity, Money and Norwegian know how! Interesting!
5 December 2010, Cancun Center, Conventions and Exhibitions, Boulevard Kukulcan, Cancún
The aim of this session at Forest Day 4 is to bring together a group of key experts and decision makers to identify and promote
synergies between efforts to safeguard biodiversity, tackle climate change, and implement sustainable forest management.
We will discuss achievements of the International Year of Biodiversity, and identify further opportunities for synergies in policy
and practice during the International Year of Forests in 2011 and towards Rio+20 in 2012.
Encouraging examples exist of the inclusion of biodiversity objectives in pilot and demonstration activities for Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), as well as in national climate change adaptation efforts.
The session will build on successful efforts at national level to conserve, restore and sustainably use forest biodiversity in
support of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and it will identify how the international policy framework could further
support such synergies.
A high level panel will address the following issues:
1. How are national governments mainstreaming biodiversity objectives into REDD+ pilot and demonstration activities?
2. How can countries harness the potential of forest biodiversity for climate change adaptation?
3. How can the international policy framework better support countries in their efforts to achieve biodiversity and climate
change synergies?
4. What opportunities for forest biodiversity lie ahead in the International Year of Forests 2011 and towards Rio +20 in 2012,
and how can we best use them?
Panelists:
• Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Minister of National Heritage, Ecuador (Very Good!!)
• Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action ( No Show)
• Jose Sarukhan, President, CONABIO, Mexico
• Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, TEBTEBBA (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education)