CLIMATE-L Digest for Sunday, November 23, 2014.
1. Funds Expand Renewable Energy in Developing Countries
2. COP-Side-Event 'REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest Protection'
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From: Hillary McBride <HMcBride@irena.org>
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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:26:00 +0000
Subject: Funds Expand Renewable Energy in Developing Countries
(Apologies for cross posting)
Dear Climate-L colleagues,
It's now easier to access loans for renewable energy projects in developing countries thanks to lower lending rates offered by the IRENA/ADFD Project Facility. The third funding cycle of the Facility is now open for project proposals, with interest rates of only 1-2% available on concessional loans.
The IRENA/ADFD Project Facility aims to advance renewable energy in communities where it can have the greatest impact and where financing is one of the greatest challenges. By funding projects with social, economic and environmental benefits, the programme demonstrates that renewable energy goes hand-in-hand with sustainable development and climate change mitigation.
The IRENA/ADFD Project Facility is seeking renewable energy projects in developing countries that are innovative and have the potential to be models for replication and scale up. The deadline for applications is 18 February 2015 (17:00 Gulf Standard Time). Applicants need to register and apply online.
For information about the Facility and to apply, please visit: http://www.irena.org/adfd or email adfd@irena.org.
Please do not hesitate to forward this information to interested stakeholders.
Warm regards,
Seleha Lockwood
Programme Officer - Renewable Energy and Finance
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From: Fariborz Zelli <Fariborz.Zelli@svet.lu.se>
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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:42:18 -0600
Subject: COP-Side-Event 'REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest Protection'
You are most welcome to join our side-event at the UN climate change conference next week:
'REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest Protection'
Thursday, 4 December 2014
16:45-18:15
Room: Caral (130)
UNFCCC-COP 20 Lima, Peru
Organisers: Lund University, Climate Alliance
Sponsors and participating institutions: BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a changing climate), DIE (German Development Institute), GIZ (in cooperation with the erman Federal Ministry for the Environment), INFOE (Institute for Ecology and Action Anthropology), Oro Verde-Tropical Forest Foundation
Programme:
Moderation: Andreas Kress (Climate Alliance) and Fariborz Zelli (Lund University)
Social Inclusiveness of REDD in Peru
Fariborz Zelli (Lund University), Jonas Ibrahim Hein (DIE / German Development Institute) and Hannes Hotz (DIE / German Development Institute)
Safeguards for Forest Conservation in Peru
Maria Pia Moreno (GIZ) and Lucas Dourojeanni (MINAM / Peruvian Minstry of the Environment)
REDD+ Indígena Amazónica
Alberto Pizango Chota (AIDESEP / Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest)
Ecuador's Socio Bosque and Peru's Programa Bosque as Role Models?
Tobias Dan Nielsen (Lund University)
Timberland Investment – how effective are they for biodiversity and local communities?
Linda Rohnstock (OroVerde - Tropical Forest Foundation)
How Local Authorities can contribute to forest protection – some practical examples
Thomas Brose (Climate Alliance)
Concluding remarks
Translation: Elke Falley-Rothkopf (Spanish-English)
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Background:
REDD is one of the latest additions to a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Many developing and emerging countries have started engaging in REDD. Peru and other Latin American countries are no exception here – with an obvious motivation: a considerable part of their greenhouse gas emissions are currently caused by deforestation.
In addition to REDD, and partly out of criticism to it, a number of further political and financial instruments for forest protection in Latin America have emerged over the last years.
But how effective are these various instruments with regard to forest protection? How socially inclusive are they with respect to indigenous communities and other vulnerable forest users? And how fair are the proposed benefit-sharing mechanisms?
Experts and stakeholders address these questions for a series of incentive-based and financial instruments. Apart from REDD, these include conditional cash transfers for protection of indigenous territories (SocioBosque in Ecuador, Programa Bosques in Peru), forest investment schemes, and social environmental safeguards for forest protection.
In addition, representatives of indigenous peoples from the Amazon Basin present an alternative proposal: RIA (Amazon Indigenous REDD+) offers a simple and low-cost instrument which is already contributing to the maintenance of carbon stock in forests. They also introduce a model approach for public funding, drawing on the cooperation between European cities and COICA (Coordinator of Indigenous Associations of the Amazon Basin).
Moreover, findings from a recently published report on the role of private investors will be presented. The report discusses whether instruments like Timberland Investment can generate sufficient funding and fulfil key ecological and social responsibilities.
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