Day five in review
12/12/2009 at 11:09 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: COP15, Indonesia
Day five was a busy day for all. Here are some highlights…
– EU leaders, in Brussels, argeed to help poor communities cope with climate change
– 1st draft for a global climate deal produced
– Government of Indonesia discussed lessons learnt from their REDD projects
– The FFI team met with governments, partner organisations and other NGOs
– The FFI communications team go live at COP15!
Day six is another busy day for the FFI team. We catch up with Julie Fischer later to discuss her thoughts about COP15 and the new social impact assessment of land-based carbon activities she is involved in.
Community Carbon @ COP15
12/12/2009 at 7:32 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: Carbon, Communities, COP15, Forests, Indonesia, REDD, Taskforce
FFI is the only NGO piloting a community carbon pool project in Indonesia. We talk to Frank Momberg and Dewi Rizki about this pioneering project and find out how projects like these can help local communities.
“The project is based on community rights and developing a benefit mechanism directly for communities for future REDD credits,” Frank explains.
“REDD projects are very complex so for communities to develop initiatives, to gain future carbon credits for their efforts to protect the forest, is difficult,”
FFI brings different communities together to share the community carbon pool, which lowers transaction costs and potential for revenue increases.
“We aim to help raise awareness of REDD at the community level and share information and training, which hopefully results in communities conducting their own carbon inventories and monitoring their own system,” he said.
The FFI project plans to help build capacity of local community partners and engage with the government to provide legal and political support that is required for a community carbon pool project.
Dewi Rizki and Frank Momberg talk to FFI Communications Manager Helen Pitman
“We are well on track with the pilot project and hope to expand to more villages, upscale these efforts and influence the national policy dialog on community rights to carbon and play a role in mitigating climate change” Frank said.
Dewi coordinates REDD projects in Indonesia as part of our collaboration with Macquarie Group.
“The benefits of coming to events such as COP15 is learning from other countries like Brazil and Panama about their REDD projects”
After discussing Indonesia’s REDD projects in the global arena she is pleased to find out Indonesia is on the right track with their REDD projects.
FFI Indonesia @ COP15
11/12/2009 at 8:20 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: Communities, COP15, Indonesia, REDD
We managed to catch-up with FFI’s Frank Momberg and Dewi Rizki as they dashed from one meeting to another to find out why FFI Indonesia was at COP15.
Frank talks to Indonesian delegates
Frank explained that there were a number of reasons the team was here. Our FFI Indonesia Country Programme Director, Darmawan Liswanto, was invited by the Government of Indonesia to be part of the official party delegation. Damrawan will provide technical assistance to the Indonesian Government and help with the development of negotiation text for REDD.
He said FFI was very keen to make sure there are safeguards for Indigenous peoples and biodiversity included in the agenda. FFI has always believed that local livelihoods and biodiversity should benefit from any REDD project.
A key reason for the FFI Indonesian team being at COP15 is the fantastic opportunity for them to exchange information, gain knowledge and learn new information about REDD and REDD+.
REDD+ methodology and development is moving towards not only avoided deforestation and degradation of forests but also sequestration of carbon in ecosystems. This will result in ecosystems having an adaptation function for climate change as well as a mitigation role.
“We have had the chance to meet with our partner and donor organisations here,” Frank said.
“Meeting with other NGOs that share similar objectives is very valuable,”
“Because the REDD challenges are complex, requiring expertise of various kinds, it is ideal to form partnerships where FFI can collaborate and contribute our expertise in conservation.”
COP15 also provides an opportunity for our team to meet with governments. Today the Government of Indonesia held a meeting to discuss their experiences from REDD. Indonesia is moving ahead on developing a national REDD strategy and baseline scenarios and initiating pilot projects.
“We are working closely with local, provincial and the national government in Indonesia to develop our pilot projects as well” Frank said.
We’ll meet up again with Frank and Dewi later to discuss their new community carbon pool pilot project.
Day Five at COP15
11/12/2009 at 4:34 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: COP15, Copenhagen, Indonesia, recycle, REDD
Day five at COP15 is an important day for FFI with a number of side events focused on REDD.
Welcome to COP15
The Bella Centre, home of COP15, is made up of exhibitions and side events in addition to the behind the scenes negotiations. COP15 is among the first large political international conferences to use energy-saving lighting and the conference’s sustainability policy has inspired a number of suppliers to rethink and advance their own policies. Even the uniforms are environmentally friendly and made out of recycled plastic bottles!
COP15 recycled t-shirts
The FFI-Macquarie Taskforce and a number of our Indonesian team are here today participating in side events, particularly one held by the Indonesian Government who will present their experiences from REDD. Frank Momberg, FFI’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director of Development, and Dewi Rizki, REDD National Coordinator, FFI Indonesia, will talk to us later and give us an overview of FFI Indonesia’s hopes for COP15.
FFI's Dewi Rizki and Julie Fischer in discussion between meetings
Making Copenhagen Count
09/12/2009 at 1:35 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: Carbon, Copenhagen, Forests, Indonesia, Liberia, REDD, Taskforce
FFI’s Making Copenhagen Count site is now live and will have updates, interviews and video of our teams during their time at COP15.
We have been invited to be part of the Liberian Government delegation and will be supporting them with their Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) negotiations.
Liberia’s “REDD Readiness Plan” identifies a clear roadmap towards designing and carrying out pilot carbon projects. FFI has begun discussions with the National Government and Provincial Authorities to develop a pilot project in a forest bloc in the southeast of the country.
In June 2008 FFI entered into collaboration with Australian bank Macquarie Group to develop a Taskforce to invest in the conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests and generate carbon credits for sale on the global markets.
The FFI-Macquarie Taskforce are heading to COP15 to share lessons learnt from their pioneering REDD projects, to continue to be the voice for biodiversity and to profile how we work in partnership with governments and local communities to manage the preservation of the forests.
Our team from Indonesia has been invited by the Indonesian Government delegation and will be supporting them with their negotiations. FFI Indonesia staff will have a varied role at COP15, attending Forest Day and representing both our FFI-Macquarie Taskforce REDD projects and FFI’s ‘Community Carbon Pool’ project.
They will also be showcasing FFI’s innovative project which aims to prevent high value conservation forest from being converted to oil palm plantations by harnessing the REDD mechanism.
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