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NEWS AND INFORMATION FROM WWF’S INTERNATIONAL FOREST AND CLIMATE PROGRAMME

US$60 MILLION PROPOSAL FOR CONGO’S LARGEST-EVER FOREST CARBON EMISSIONS REDUCTION PROJECT SUBMITTED TO WORLD BANK CARBON FUND

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In a major step forward, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has submit-ted an Emissions Reductions Program Idea Note (ER-PIN) to the World

Bank-managed Carbon Fund of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), entering the short list of countries aiming to unlock US$60 million in emissions reductions

payments. DRC’s project will be the first jurisdictional-scale REDD+ programme in Africa, covering 12.3 million hectares of land—including approximately 9.8 million hectares of forest and two and a half million hectares of mixed agricul-tural lands and savannah.

In DRC, the project will focus on the proposed province of Mai-Ndombe, where WWF has been an initiating partner with the government of DRC of the ER-PIN. Mai-Ndombe is an important landscape as it is on the front line of deforestation from Kinshasa, and it

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NEWS................................................. 3RECENT PUBLICATIONS ............................. 6VIEWPOINTS ......................................... 8SPECIES HIGHLIGHT: BLACKBUCK .................11UPCOMING EVENTS ................................20

REDD+ PEOPLE

VICTOR KABENGELE WA KADILU ..................12

REDD+ EXPERT

INTERVIEW WITH HERMINE KLEYMANN .........14

REDD+ CAPACITY BUILDING

LEARNING SESSION 21: SUPPLEMENTING REDD+ WITH BIODIVERSITY PAYMENTS .................. 8LEARNING SESSION 20: NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS FOR REDD+........................................... 9LEARNING SESSION 19: ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE INCENTIVES IN THE STATE OF ACRE, BRAZIL ...... 9LESSONS LEARNED FROM INDONESIA: COMMUNITY FORESTS ............................10REDD+ COMMUNITY UPDATE .....................10

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VIDEOThe Sustainable Development Goals and the role of forestsWhy are the Sustainable Development Goals

important? How do forests fit into the next global development framework? CIFOR Director General Peter Holmgren explains.

WATCH: bit.ly/1gu2U53

VIDEOUNDP UN-REDD Targeted Support Project in Peru This short video describes the UN-REDD Programme and UNDP’s

18-month project on “Strengthening indigenous peoples’ capacities for their informed participation in the design and implementation of a REDD+ mechanism in Peru”.

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DRC Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism, Bavon N’sa Mputu Elima speaking with the media

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WWF ELECTED TO BE THE NEXT NORTHERN COUNTRY CIVIL SOCIETY OBSERVER AT THE FOREST CARBON PARTNERSHIP FACILITY

WWF has been elected as the next northern country Civil Society Observer (CSO) at the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) and will begin the two-year term immediately. The coming years will be a critical time for the FCPF and its efforts to support forest countries in building their capacity to address the drivers of deforestation and degradation, create a portfolio of pilot pay-for- performance conservation programmes, and test ways to enhance livelihoods of local communities and conserve biodiversity.

The FCPF consists of two funds: the Readiness Fund and the Carbon Fund. The Readiness Fund supports forest countries’ efforts to develop national REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) strategies, institutional arrangements, and needed capacities to implement carbon account-ing and benefit-sharing mechanisms, and to meet essential social and environ-mental safeguards. The Carbon Fund is the first global multilateral fund to pilot subnational- to national-scale pay-for-performance REDD+ programmes. Over the next two years the Carbon Fund will establish a portfolio of approximately five to seven large-scale emission reduction programmes of estimated value up to US$50–100 million each.

The FCPF includes more than 40 participant countries and is an impor-tant space for advancing and piloting the idea of results-based payments for activities that address the drivers of deforestation while meeting and advancing essential social and environ-mental benefits to local and indigenous communities most closely tied to the forests.

Lloyd Gamble, who coordinates WWF’s multilateral work on forest and climate issues, will be the WWF delegate to the seat.

Gamble has been an active contributor to the FCPF for several years, most recently partnering with the Bank Information Center (BIC) to represent northern CSOs on the Working Group for the Carbon Fund’s Methodological Framework. In this position, he successfully advocated for strengthened guidance on transpar-ency, climate integrity, integrated programme planning, and social and environmental safeguards by actively engaging with Carbon Fund Participants and other relevant stakeholders. WWF’s alternate representative is Josefina Brana-Varela, WWF’s global REDD+ policy lead and a former UNFCCC negotiator for Mexico.

“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to represent northern civil society at the FCPF and to contribute to this unprec-edented test of the REDD+ model at larger spatial scales and in an expanding number of tropical forest countries,” said Gamble. “We commend the Bank Information Center for its excellent work in this seat for the past two years, modelling an inclusive and transparent approach to engage many constituencies. We also applaud the BIC’s extensive efforts to provide needed technical support to other observers.”

“This is a truly representative role that relies on active engagement from diverse partners and constituencies. We look forward to collaborating with other civil society organizations and learning from their experiences and areas of expertise,” added Brana-Varela.

WWF works in approximately 100 countries globally and has extensive conservation programmes in many FCPF countries. In all of these places, WWF works with diverse grassroots constitu-encies to address environmental and social issues relevant to REDD+, including rights and capacities of local and indigenous communities, local livelihoods, gender and health, protected areas, private-sector engagement, wildlife crime, conservation finance, and conservation policy.

PARAGUAY PRESENTS ITS FIRST COUNTRYWIDE FOREST CARBON MAP

WWF-Paraguay, along with support from Japan Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), has recently concluded work on the first-ever forest cover and forest carbon maps for the country. These maps represent a milestone toward the development of the MRV system and reference levels by providing accurate estimation (tier 2 level) of carbon density for forests in the Atlantic and Chaco regions. WWF-Paraguay has also developed a forest cover map with high-resolution satellite images from

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Landsat and ALOS satellites. This work was completed in close collaboration with the Forestry Department (CIF) of the Agrarian Science Faculty of the National University of Asuncion, the Environmental Secretariat (SEAM) and the National Forestry Institute (INFONA) and will help move REDD+ work ahead in the country. (Reporting by Stefan Knapps of WWF-Paraguay)

WWF COLLABORATES WITH UN-REDD PROGRAMME ON NEW ‘REDD+ ACADEMY’

The UN-REDD Programme is working on the development of a REDD+ capacity development initiative that will match the scale of the global climate change mitigation challenge. This “REDD+ Academy” will enable systematic, focused capacity development to deliver REDD+ on the ground.

The development of the REDD+ Academy is a response to needs expressed by UN-REDD partner countries for a regionally focused formal education initiative for those involved in national REDD+ programmes. Accordingly, the design of the REDD+ Academy is guided by the following principles:■ To facilitate South-South cooperation

through mentoring, institutional twinning and other mechanisms;

■ To build on existing REDD+ capacity development initiatives;

■ To ensure the delivery of a long-term and sustainable learning experience;

■ To adopt a demand-driven, region-specific approach to training tied to REDD+ implementation.

The REDD+ Academy is envisioned as a two-week course that will combine a core curriculum delivered by UN-REDD agencies and partners with regional curriculum designed and delivered by university or training institute regional partners who will host the REDD+ Academy in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The on-site course will be supported by online learning material accessible to all interested individuals.

In order to ensure on-the-ground relevance, regional REDD+ Academy design workshops are planned for each REDD+ Academy delivery region. These one-day workshops will solicit input on curriculum design and Academy participation and will facilitate the identification of priority issues for REDD+ implementation in each region.

The REDD+ Academy design and delivery will be led by a Steering Committee. The work of the Steering Committee will be supported by partners engaged in UN-REDD delivery and REDD+ capacity building, including: UNORCID, UNITAR, CIFOR, IUFRO, the World Bank, the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, Conservation International, the Global Canopy Program, the World Wildlife Fund and the Alliance for Global REDD+ Capacity.

Funding for the design and initial delivery of the REDD+ Academy has been provided by the government of Norway. The UNEP UN-REDD team and the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit/DEPI (EETU/DEPI) are coordinating the REDD+ Academy process. This will also draw upon the Global Universities Partnership on

Environment and Sustainability (GUPES), which currently reaches out to more than 400 universities globally.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT: www.un-redd.org

WWF WELCOMES APRIL SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT POLICYWWF has cautiously welcomed a Sustainable Forest Management Policy (SFMP) recently launched by Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd (APRIL), noting that a commitment to support forest conservation areas equal in size to its plantations sets a new standard for the pulp and paper industry in Indonesia.

“Given WWF’s longstanding calls for an end to the environmental abuses associated with the pulp and paper industry, APRIL’s Sustainable Forest Management Policy would seem to be demonstrating willingness on the part of the company to transforming its operations,” said Dr Efransjah, CEO of WWF-Indonesia. “If APRIL truly fulfils the entire commitment in the policy, it will lead to a positive contribution to Indonesia’s forests, biodiversity, emission reductions and people.”

Under the new policy, APRIL will establish a moratorium on clearing in concessions where there has not been independent assessment of conservation values. The company and its long term supply partners will complete plantation establishment by the end of 2014 and will support a pilot study to help develop industry accepted methods for evaluat-ing and protecting High Carbon Stock (HCS) forests and peatland areas.

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But the policy also allows for APRIL to utilize wood from tropical forests in its mill until the end of 2019. WWF is urging APRIL to become a 100% plantation fibre company in 2014, warning that without robust processes and independent monitoring high value and high carbon forest material could continue to leak through this loophole into the pulp mills.

Likewise, while the carbon stock assessment study is welcome, it should involve all relevant stakeholders and APRIL should apply the precautionary principle and protect all likely HCS areas until an industry standard is final.

WWF also appreciates the commitment of APRIL to establish a Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) and welcomes APRIL’s invitation to be part of this. WWF hopes the SAC becomes a credible and independent group to continuously engage the company in the effective implementation and strengthening of its policy.

Assessing the APRIL plan against requirements set in the milestones by the Environmental Paper network (EPN), WWF welcomed APRIL’s commitment to support forest conservation areas equivalent to its plantation areas.

“This commitment introduces a new chapter in the move of the Indonesian paper industry towards sustainability that should be followed by other companies,” said Aditya Bayunanda, WWF Indonesia Forest Market Transformation Leader.

“WWF calls pulp and paper buyers to observe closely independent monitoring and civil society assessments as proof of compliance by APRIL to these commitments.”

“We urge Indonesian and global civil society to conduct intensive monitoring and reporting of all of APRIL’s commitments.”

WWF is also joining with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and others to urge that APRIL’s owner, the Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) Group, implement similar policies over other business entities involved in pulp and paper and other industries associated with high levels of deforestation.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT: bit.ly/1dNVQ8r

NEW REPORT SERVES AS A CALL TO ACTION ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FORESTSBuilding Natural Capital: How REDD+ Can Support a Green Economy, a report released to coincide with the International Day of Forests by the International Resource Panel (IRP) and the UN REDD Programme, and includ-ing input from WWF Forest and Climate Programme experts, outlines how integrating REDD+ programmes into a Green Economy approach can conserve

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and even boost the economic and social benefits forests provide to human society.

The report lays out recommendations to deliver the new integrated REDD+ and Green Economy approach, including better coordination, stronger private sector engagement, changes in fiscal incentive frameworks, greater focus on assisting policymakers to understand the role forests play in propping up econo-mies, and equitable benefit sharing. The report stresses in particular the needs for a rights-based approach to ensure that benefits flow to the rural poor.

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) is the approach to cut greenhouse gas emissions from defores-tation and forest degradation-estimated at up to 20 per cent of the global total-through payments for services. REDD+ is an expanded approach that includes the conservation and sustain-able management of forests, and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The community of REDD+ practitioners and experts from around the world grows every day, and WWF’s global Forest and Climate Programme is working to ensure that the capacity building and informational materials it produces are available to the most diverse audience possible. Many of the publications highlighted here are available in English, Bahasa, French, Portuguese and Spanish, and can help us build our collective capacity to deliver successful REDD+ initiatives around the globe that benefit people and nature.

ESTIMANDO LOS STOCKS DE CARBONO FORESTAL TROPICAL A PARTIR DE INFORMACIÓN DE INVENTARIO EXISTENTE

This Spanish-language report produced

by the Forest and Climate Programme and the WWF-Peru office focuses on how countries

can capitalize on pre-existing carbon stock data and use it to supplement the production of regional carbon maps.

DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/1nB17V7

WWF REDD+ COUNTRY PROFILES

These REDD+ Country Profiles have been devel-

oped in partnership with the WWF Forest and Climate Programme, WWF-Germany and

WWF national offices. Profiles are currently available for Bolivia, Cameroon, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Nepal, Peru and Vietnam.

DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/1i8kFKZ

FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT AND REDD+: GUIDELINES AND RESOURCES

This working paper presents resources and guidelines for the concept of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as related to REDD+.

It was produced jointly by WWF-US’s People and Conservation Programme and WWF’s global Forest and Climate Programme (formerly the WWF Forest and Climate Initiative) as a working paper to invite comments and feedback. It was originally drafted in June 2013 and publicly released with updated content in January 2014.

DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/1kPgcAr

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BUILDING REDD+ FOR PEOPLE AND NATUREFrom lessons learned across Indonesia, Peru and the Democratic Republic of Congo to a new vision for REDD+ UPDATE: Now available in Bahasa, English, French and Spanish

WWF’s report Building REDD+ for People and Nature: from lessons learned across Indonesia, Peru and the

Democratic Republic of Congo to a new vision for REDD+ shares the impacts, challenges, lessons learned and trends that emerged from this work, and reflects on these to inform a new vision for REDD+.

DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/BuildREDDreport

WWF GUIDE TO BUILDING REDD+ STRATEGIESA toolkit for REDD+ practitioners around the globeUPDATE: Now available in Bahasa

This guide provides REDD+ practi-tioners with the information needed to develop national and subnational REDD+ strategies.

It draws on the experiences of WWF’s international REDD+ project teams and their partners, the latest literature on REDD+ practices, and emerging REDD+ best practices around the world. It is designed to provide a holistic under-standing of REDD+ for practitioners whether they work in a single area of REDD+ or across the field of REDD+.

DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/REDDguide

LIVING FORESTS REPORT CHAPTER 3: FORESTS & CLIMATEUPDATE: Now available in Bahasa

WWF’s Living Forests Report

has introduced four future scenarios to explore the feasibility and implications of stopping runaway deforestation and degradation of the world’s remaining natural forests. In chapter three of the report, we look specifically at the scenarios’ conse-quences for the climate and future carbon emissions.

DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/NaKLSb

REDD+ INSPIRING PRACTICESUPDATE: Now available in Bahasa

WWF’s REDD+ Inspiring Practices capture the

valuable knowledge and experiences from our REDD+ efforts than can help us improve,

replicate and scale up our work. Developing each is a participatory process, often involving several people involved in the work. They are a tool that can help realize a REDD+ mechanism that successfully benefits people and nature.

DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/REDDlearn

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LEARNING SESSION 21: SUPPLEMENTING REDD+ WITH BIODIVERSITY PAYMENTS

In this webinar, Jonah Busch, research fellow at the Center for Global Development, discusses how an international REDD+ mechanism

can be used to make payments for forests’ biodiversity as well as carbon emission reductions. Paradoxically, under conditions consistent with emerging REDD+ programmes, money spent on a mixture of carbon payments and biodiversity payments can incentivize the provision of greater climate benefits than an equal amount of money spent only on carbon payments.

VIDEO OF LEARNING SESSION 21: bit.ly/1gf6boe

WWF FOREST AND CLIMATE PROGRAMME LEARNING SESSIONS ARE FREE AND ARE DESIGNED TO LEVERAGE AND SHARE REDD+ KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE. EVERY MONTH, WE INVITE A REDD+ EXPERT TO PRESENT ON A KEY ISSUE SO THAT REDD+ PRACTITIO-NERS CAN HAVE ACCESS TO THE LATEST INFORMATION RELEVANT TO REDD+. To watch an archived Learning Session or to register for an upcoming webinar, please visit: bit.ly/REDDlearn

On the importance of delivering a draft 2015 climate deal in Lima:

“PEOPLE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE STANDING FOREST HAS VALUE, AND REWARDING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES CAN LEAD TO A CHANGE IN BEHAVIOUR; THE ISSUES ARE COMPLEX BUT WE HAVE CLEAR STRATEGIES TO TACKLE THEM.”

—Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Environment Minister, Peru

On the Bonn climate meeting:

“WE ARE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS IN THE ATMOSPHERE FOR THE LAST 800,000 YEARS, AND WE HAVE NOT YET STARTED TO BEND THAT CURVE BACK DOWN AGAIN—THIS IS THE URGENCY OF THE CHALLENGE.”

—Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary

On WWF’s work in conservation programmes in Forest Carbon Partnership Facility countries:

“THE NEXT TWO YEARS WILL BE A CRITICAL TIME FOR THE FOREST CARBON PARTNERSHIP FACILITY (FCPF) AND ITS EFFORTS TO SUPPORT FOREST COUNTRIES TO BUILD THEIR CAPACITY FOR REDD+ ACTIVITIES, CREATE A PORTFOLIO OF PILOT PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMES AT THE CARBON FUND, AND TEST WAYS TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY.”

—Lloyd Gamble, REDD+ Multilateral Lead, WWF

On reaching the 2020 global climate target:

“THE STEPPING STONE OF THE 2020 GLOBAL TARGET CAN STILL BE ACHIEVED BY STRENGTHENING CURRENT PLEDGES AND FURTHER ACTION, INCLUDING SCALING UP INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION INITIATIVES IN AREAS SUCH AS ENERGY EFFICIENCY, FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDY REFORM, RENEWABLE ENERGY, FORESTRY AND REDD+.”

—Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director

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LEARNING SESSION 20: NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS FOR REDD+

In this presentation, John Costenbader of Climate Focus discusses policy, law and regulatory elements necessary for successful design and implementation

of REDD+. He focuses his remarks first on purely national frameworks and then considers legal issues relevant to subnational or “nested” REDD+ opportunities.

VIDEO OF LEARNING SESSION 20: bit.ly/1dVTfXW

LEARNING SESSION 19: ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE INCENTIVES IN THE STATE OF ACRE, BRAZIL

The Brazilian state of Acre in the Amazon—home to the Sky Rainforest Rescue project—is considered a global leader in

defining a REDD+ policy framework. Acre’s 2010 law that created the Environmental Service Incentives System (SISA in Portuguese) sets out a framework for valuing a range of ecosystem services. Its REDD+ programme, ISA Carbon, is the most developed component of the SISA to date.

In this webinar, Anthony Anderson, Senior Specialist in Forests and Climate at WWF-Brazil, discusses the design and early institutional structure of ISA Carbon and identifies its strengths and challenges, based on a report recently released in English and Portuguese titled Environmental service incentives in the state of Acre, Brazil: Lessons for policies, programmes and strategies for jurisdic-tion-wide REDD+. Anthony also shares insights for the design of other national and subnational REDD+ mechanisms around the world.

VIDEO OF LEARNING SESSION 19: bit.ly/1nnw0fA

WWF’s international Forest and Climate Programme collects and shares key REDD+ lessons learned from around the globe to help build REDD+ capacitites, here are snapshots of the most recent of these. Visit bit.ly/REDDlearn for more REDD+ lessons and other learning tools.

LESSONS LEARNED FROM INDONESIA: COMMUNITY FORESTSThe development of community conservation areas and community-based forest manage-ment in the remote villages of Indonesia’s Kutai Barat district is an important part of WWF-Indonesia’s REDD+ work. Amid intense pressures from development and deforesta-tion, and despite a legal framework that is unclear in its protection of customary rights to the land, these villages are working collaboratively—and successfully—to protect and secure government recognition for their traditional uses of the forest.

From this experience, the following lessons were learned:

Communities are crucial to forest conservation. Protecting the forest and its traditional uses among local and indigenous communities requires that community members work together and that they seek help from others who have a stake in the forest’s future. When community members found limited support for proposed Community Conservation Areas (CCAs), because these CCAs have no legal recognition, they sought partnerships with local government agencies and concession-holding companies in order to back the CCA concept in alternative ways.

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Building on existing legal frameworks, key partnerships and higher-level government guidelines makes commu-nity-based initiatives more effective. Kutai Barat’s indigenous peoples and local communities found greater recogni-tion and support when they used the accepted community forestry models of Hutan Desa and Hutan Tanaman Rakyat to define, protect and manage their lands. They were also successful in asserting their rights through the use of village regulations, which are powerful and binding tools at the district level.

Community-based forest management paves the way for equitable benefit sharing. The processes involved in designating and claiming CCAs can serve as a basis for benefit-sharing mechanisms that will improve livelihoods among Kutai Barat’s local and indigenous communities. CCAs emerged from dialogues among community members about their land’s history and traditional value and their visions for its future, and these dialogues helped community members find common ground and community pride. Building a shared understanding and vision empowered communities to engage more effectively with the government and private sectors, which can in turn reduce marginalization and stop forest encroachment.

REDD+ Community, the free and open online community and learning platform, has reached the one-year mark and continues to grow as a vibrant resource for REDD+ practitioners around the world.

Launched in April 2013 by WWF’s Forest and Climate Programme, the community hosts more than 700 members from more than 50 countries with diverse interests and skills. REDD+ knowledge is shared through lively member discus-sions, posts on lessons learned, event information, publications, technical tools, news, images and videos.

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BLACKBUCKCommon NameBlackbuck

Scientific nameAntilope cervicapra

LocationNepal, Pakistan and India

PopulationAn estimated 50,000 individuals

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to 293 in 2012. Despite this progress, the only surviving wild population in the country is still at great risk.

WWF-Nepal is working to conserve and manage the forest that border the grasslands where these gregarious antelope live, with a focus on reducing habitat loss from lands cleared for livestock grazing and fuelwood consumption. Source: Animal Diversity Web, EOL.org and WWF

The blackbuck is the only living species of the genus Antilope and is native to the Indian Subcontinent. This hoofed animal, known locally in Nepal as “krishnasar”, was once abundant, but populations have been greatly reduced through excessive hunting and loss of habitat due to agricultural development.

The last surviving population of blackbuck in Nepal is found in the Blackbuck Conservation Area south of the Bardia National Park. Just 19 blackbucks were first recorded there in 1975. To ensure the survival of this population, in 2009 the government of Nepal declared an area of 172 hectares as the Krishnasar Conservation Area. Recent efforts have helped the blackbuck population increase

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VICTOR KABENGELE WA KADILUInterview with Victor Kabengele Wa Kadilu, REDD+ National Coordinator for the National REDD Coordination Committee (CN-REDD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo

What is your current position?

V: I am currently the national coordina-tor in charge of coordinating all activities and actions related to the implementa-tion of the REDD+ process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

What is your background?

V: I have a background in finance. I studied at what is now called the University of Kinshasa and spent much of my early career in big corporate companies working with transport railways. After that, I worked in South Africa for 15 years running a trading business of commodities between DRC and South Africa, but in 2008 I came back to DRC to work for the Ministry of the Environment.

How did you get involved in REDD+ work?

V: I was the representative of the Ministry of the Environment on the Forest Investment Program (FIP) Subcommittee at the World Bank and also took part in the negotiations for getting DRC approved as a pilot country for REDD+. I participated in the negotia-tions that ultimately led to a grant for 60 million USD to DRC for implementing activities on the ground from the FIP, and I also participated in the development of the investment plan for implementation.

I am also a member of the task force for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations for DRC and a member of the REDD+ Partnership team. In short, I have been very involved in REDD+ progres s for a number of years.

What have been some of the challenges in the DRC ER-PIN process?

V: From my point of view, we have five primary challenges—participation, consultation, coordination of implemen-tation, governance and, finally, the sheer size of our country.

Participation of stakeholders, especially forest communities and indigenous peoples, can often be difficult to initiate and sustain. It can also be a challenge to coordinate participation of civil society organizations and the private sector. Consultation, particularly with local communities, indigenous peoples, and women and youth, is something we are very much looking to improve, especially in the implementation of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) related to REDD+.

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“ WE ARE NOW FOCUSING ON BRINGING REDD+ DOWN TO THE LOCAL LEVEL. WE’RE MEETING WITH COMMUNITIES AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT REDD+ IS AND WHAT IT CAN HELP US ALL ACHIEVE.”VICTOR KABENGELE WA KADILU

Coordination of the means of implemen-tation is another challenge we face. As you know, the process of REDD+ in DRC came about through support from both the UN-REDD Programme and the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), so we need to coordinate with these and other partners, all of which have their own financial proce-dures, reporting requirements, etc.

Governance has also been a challenge for us, because so many of our laws, codes and regulations were adopted long before REDD+ started. So, we are currently focusing on work with diverse stakeholders to modernize many laws and governance practices. Last but not least, the sheer size of DRC makes REDD+ work hard at times. We are a huge country, the 11th largest in the world, with a population of 75 million, so it’s not easy to manage the REDD+ process, or any process, across such an enormous space.

What are the goals of CN-REDD?

V: The objective of CN-REDD is to oversee and facilitate a number of implementation tools and systems to make REDD+ happen. These include:■ Writing a REDD+ national strategy.

The strategy was finalized in November 2012 and highlights the DRC government’s vision for economic and social development in the context of the REDD+ mechanism.

■ Setting up a national REDD+ fund to collect and channel diverse sources of funding, including funding from the UNFCCC Green Climate Fund. This was completed in September 2013.

■ Implementing a REDD+ registry to track REDD+ projects and progress. We expect this to be fully operational this year.

■ Creating a national forest monitoring system (NFMS). Ours is called Terra Congo and is based on Terra Amazon (from Brazil). This tool will be the basis for a complete MRV system for tracking carbon activity.

■ Establishing national social and environmental REDD+ standards in line with UNFCCC guidance and World Bank safeguards recommenda-tions. We expect these to be finalized next month.

■ Developing an independent grievance mechanism for public complaint and feedback, including an independent observer to check in on the system.

What has been the biggest achieve-ment since its start a few years ago?

V: In my opinion, we have had many big achievements since our inception. The first is the full national appropriation of the process, which means full political commitment at the national level. Without this support, REDD+ could not move forward in our country. We have also had enthusiastic participation of stakeholders, in particular, from civil society. We have had full support of the UN-REDD Programme and the FCPF from the very beginning, which has helped the process move ahead more smoothly.

It is also quite an accomplishment to have moved past the first phase of REDD+ work, the preparation phase, and to be entering the investment phase. There are three phases for REDD+, and we were in the first phase from 2009 to 2012, so we spent last year wrapping that up and preparing for the next step in our REDD+ process. We are now focusing on bringing REDD+ down to the local level. We’re meeting with communities and talking about what REDD+ is and what it can help us all achieve. I’m also very proud of the finalization of the national strategy

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REDD+ EXPERT

Hermine Kleymann is a Programme Officer for REDD+ Policy. She works on international policy with a regional emphasis on the Congo Basin.

What is your role with WWF’s Forest and Climate Programme?

HK: I am a programme officer for REDD+ Policy with WWF-Germany. In this role, I focus on international policy with a regional emphasis on the Congo Basin, working toward implemen-tation and policy work around REDD+. I do this 50 per cent of my time for WWF-Germany and 50 per cent for WWF’s Forest and Climate Programme.

How did you become involved in REDD+ and policy work?

HK: I have a background in environmen-tal law and human rights, among other things. I started working with WWF-Germany about four and a half years ago as a consultant, and when the REDD+ policy job came up, at that time there weren’t many specialists working on REDD+. I have always gravitated toward jobs that are a bit exotic, or in an emerging field, so this job appealed to me for various reasons. I realized that this position and REDD+ would actually be a combination of a variety of things I am interested in—policy, human rights, environmental law and economics, all of which are topics I had already been involved in through previous jobs or through my studies. While I didn’t quite know exactly what REDD+ was at the

INTERVIEW WITH HERMINE KLEYMANN, PROGRAMME OFFICER FOR REDD+ POLICY

“ REDD+ IS ACTUALLY ALL ABOUT PEOPLE, SO THAT’S WHY IT’S SO CRUCIAL TO CREATE AN UNDER-STANDING AND EXCITEMENT ABOUT REDD+.”HERMINE KLEYMANN

time or how it would evolve, I thought I’d give it a go. And I’m glad I did.

What is your academic and profes-sional background and what did you study that led you here?

HK: I have a bar exam in law as well as a Master of Laws, but I never worked in a typical “legal profession”, but rather on topics with an interface of law and policy. In the past, I worked in South Africa with the GIZ (German Development Agency) on supporting public-sector reform and have also been a consultant on teams working on environmental finance issues. So again, the combination of law, policy, governance and environmental issues in REDD+ fits me well.

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Where do you work and what are your overall goals in this work?

HK: I’m based at the WWF-Germany office in Berlin, Germany, but last year I spent six months in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and travel often to the Democratic Republic of Congo to collaborate with the teams there. In general, I would say that my goal is to help get REDD+ off the ground in the Congo Basin in a way that brings all relevant stakeholders together in a coordinated way to ensure a broad understanding and ownership for an effective implementation.

You are very focused on stakeholder participation. What can we do to make sure diverse stakeholders are involved in the REDD+ implementation in general?

HK: REDD+ is actually all about people, so that’s why it’s so crucial to create an understanding and excitement about REDD+. When people are interested and they realize what an important role they play in making it happen, they want to be part of that. It’s vital to go and get people excited, committed and coordinated at all levels—so building that enthusiasm from the beginning is key for getting people involved and enhancing partici-pation. However, I must also point out that it is important that we don’t create false expectations for stakeholders on REDD+ as the universal solution that combats the world’s deforestation. However, REDD+ is indeed a means to trigger a new perspective on the role, use and governance of forests across all levels of stakeholders and helps to jointly find alternative solutions that replace previous destructive use of forests. The importance of REDD+ is the actual joint process that may eventually lead to transformational change in the forestry area.

“ I REALLY ENJOY THE TIGHT- KNIT REDD+ COMMUNITY. I LOVE WORKING WITH VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS COMPRISING MY WWF COLLEAGUES, NGOS, REDD+ GOVERNMENTS AND DONOR COUNTRIES.”HERMINE KLEYMANN

What are some of the biggest challenges you see when working on the REDD+ process?

HK: REDD+ is quite complex and there are lots of enabling conditions that countries first should have in place to ensure a sound REDD+ implementation. For instance, land tenure rights, governance, land use planning and cross-sectoral planning, just to mention a few, are all issues or “pillars” for REDD+. Each of these topics is complex in its own right, and getting those right first is key. At the same time, REDD+ has the opportunity to trigger awareness and changes with regard to these issues, which is quite exciting. Another challenge is, of course, the scale and scaling up of finance, as well as REDD+’s dependency on other topics under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that need to be resolved before continuing ahead with REDD+. Again, finance is clearly one of these big issues linked to the UNFCCC that we need to get sorted out, and it will likely be a challenge for a few years yet.

What are some successes or achievements that you have seen?

HK: The whole landscape of REDD+ has grown so much since I began working in REDD+ more than four years ago. Today, there are hundreds of REDD+ projects around the world, which proves there is awareness and willingness to get it going on the ground. There are also so many bilateral initiatives, multilateral initia-tives and national initiatives, like the UN, the World Bank and other donors supporting REDD+, which highlights how much progress we’ve made in a short time. I also think that as a whole, the number of RPPs, REDD+ national plans, and development of jurisdictional REDD+ in some countries is a marker of success and shows how we can scale up. Last but not least, the REDD+ architec-ture under the UNFCCC that came out of Warsaw last year was a huge accom-plishment. These achievements, spanning every level—local, national, international—underscore that REDD+ is up, running and moving ahead.

Where do you see the future of REDD+ policy work?

HK: Once the “house” for REDD+ is built under the UNFCCC by 2015, I believe the policy focus will shift toward implementing REDD+ architecture in REDD+ countries and thus from an international to a national level. However, as long-term finance for REDD+ is still uncertain, this issue will remain at the top of the international policy agenda, now and in the future.

What is your favourite part of the work you do?

HK: I really enjoy the tight-knit REDD+ community. I love working with various international stakeholders comprising my WWF colleagues, NGOs, REDD+ governments and donor countries. It feels like we are all part of one, big REDD+ family!

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and the development of some key tools —national REDD+ fund, the REDD+ registry, NFMS, and the social and environmental strategic assessment.

How are national institutions like CN-REDD continuing to improve the systems and workflows for REDD+ in DRC?

V: CN-REDD is a technical branch of the Ministry of the Environment that works to oversee pilot REDD+ projects on the ground, among many other things. We currently have two kinds of pilot projects, those funded through the FIP (US$60 million) and those funded by the Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF) (US$24 million). These pilots need to be imple-mented so that we can collect the lessons and experiences from work on the ground and help us improve our REDD+ strategy. We will take this information from actual experiences in communities and feed that back into the REDD+ framework we have to make it even more valuable and accurate.

CN-REDD also works with members of parliament through the Globe International Initiative to update laws, codes and regulations. So many of our laws and regulations were adopted long before the REDD+ process was advanced, so we’re now working to bring those up to date to ensure that they support the work we’re doing on REDD+.

We work closely with a number of different ministerial departments to coordinate the REDD+ process. With the Ministry of the Environment as the leader of this cross-cutting process, our team coordinates with the ministries of finance, energy, land management, land tenure, agriculture and mining/petrol to oversee the REDD+ work in our country, with a view of managing DRC’s resources sustainably.

Finally, our office also focuses on land tenure and land management reform issues to make sure we secure and modernize land tenure and land management.

What are you most excited about for the future of REDD+ in DRC?

V: The DRC has a very important role to play when it comes to REDD+ in Africa. We were the first country in Africa to have its REDD+ Preparation Plan (R-PP) approved in March 2010. We are also the first country to receive funding of 60 million USD from the FIP to have our REDD+ registry finalized, and the first country to have our National REDD+ Strategy and National REDD+ Fund finalized. This is a great chance for us to take a leading role in this part of the world. We are also working hard to ensure that DRC is the first High Forest Low Deforestation (HFLD) country to be admitted into the FCPF pipeline through the development and submission of our Emissions Reduction Program Idea Note (ER-PIN), which focuses on two districts in the Bandundu Province. This is a huge jurisdictional nested programme of 12 million hectares, and this is a really exciting time for us. We hope to develop lots of other REDD+ programmes that can be good examples not only in the DRC, but also in the Congo Basin region as a whole.

Do you have any final words to share?

V: The implementation of the REDD+ process is an important opportunity for the DRC to embark in a long-term economic and social low-carbon develop-ment process without sacrificing our forest resources. The innovative lessons that we have learned and will learn in this very exciting process will be shared with other developing tropical forest countries, especially those in the Congo Basin region.

“ THIS IS A GREAT CHANCE FOR US TO TAKE A LEADING ROLE IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD. WE ARE ALSO WORKING HARD TO ENSURE THAT DRC IS THE FIRST HIGH FOREST LOW DEFORESTATION (HFLD) COUNTRY TO BE ADMITTED INTO THE FCPF PIPELINE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND SUBMISSION OF OUR EMISSIONS REDUCTION PROGRAM IDEA NOTE (ER-PIN)…”VICTOR KABENGELE WA KADILU

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includes the world’s largest Ramsar site as well as critical habitat of the endan-gered bonobo—a great ape that lives only in DRC.

WWF has supported the government of DRC in drafting the first and current revised versions of the ER-PIN with numerous other organisations also contributing. The REDD+ preparation activities in DRC have also succeeded in demonstrating some of the important co-benefits of REDD+, including the recognition of land rights by indigenous peoples and local communities.

The revised DRC ER-PIN includes a coherent approach to drivers of defores-tation, a new institutional model and more detailed principles for benefit sharing. A new estimation of carbon and adjustments is also included as well as a detailed budget that starts to consider how to manage payments to achieve the most effective mix of enabling and emission-reducing interventions across the landscape.

“As DRC’s Mai-Ndombe Emissions Reduction Programme will be the first jurisdictional REDD+ programme in Africa, it sets an important precedent for the implementation of global climate agreements in the continent and must apply the highest possible standards in programme design and implementation,” said WWF REDD+ Landscape Director Paul Chatterton.

DRC’s revised ER-PIN was prepared with the participation of more than 30 organisations which contributed through stakeholder consultations, meetings, workshops and working groups and by commenting on drafts. Drafting was finalized by the government REDD+ agency CN-REDD, with support from WWF, Wildlife Works Carbon and the local NGO umbrella group, the “Groupe de Travail Climat REDD” (GTCR). As an implementer, but not a beneficiary of credits or payments, WWF will continue to provide technical support as requested by the government of DRC. WWF has also recommended that an independent facilitator/design manager be hired to lead the design phase reporting to CN-REDD. This will be

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essential to ensure efficiency and avoid conflicts of interest and to ensure that the process is transparent, inclusive and systematic.

WWF considers the FCPF an important player in making REDD+ a reality and values the role it plays in working with countries to progress through the phases of REDD+ readiness and implementation.

About the DRC:

The DRC is one of six countries that form the Congo Basin—one of the most important areas of biodiversity on earth and the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world. Great expanses of primary forest still exist in the Congo Basin, giving it its name “the Green Heart of Africa”. The DRC contains 60 per cent of the Congo Basin’s forests—approximately 1.5 million square kilometres of forest cover.

With only 6 per cent of Congolese having access to electricity, 94 per cent of the DRC’s 71 million inhabitants—nearly 67 million people—depend on the forest as an energy source for firewood and charcoal. Of these, the livelihoods of 40 million people depend directly on the forests: family subsistence farming, timber for homes and firewood/charcoal for cooking and heating. This has put a significant strain on the country’s forests and has contributed to an average deforesta-tion rate of 350,000 hectares per year— one of the highest in the world.

For more information about WWF’s efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the DRC, visit bit.ly/WWFforestclimate.

For more information about the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, visit bit.ly/FCPFnews.

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REDD+ is so far backed by a total of US $6.27 billion. However, an estimated US $30 billion is projected to be needed each year from 2020. The IRP report seeks to encourage delivery of this funding by demonstrating that REDD+ approaches can support economic development and increase long-term returns on investments.

The report shows how activities sup-ported by REDD+ can be designed to increase income by boosting output on land under cultivation, developing new green industries, encouraging forest-based ecotourism, and increasing sustainable production of commodities for which demand is increasing. It also points out that an increasing number of countries have Green Economy growth plans that clearly define the role of protecting forests and other natural capital.

Reflecting on the efforts already under-way in some countries, the report closes by suggesting some of the next steps in what will surely be a long process of societies adapting to new conditions: REDD+ will need to be part of the social response to increasing agricultural and forestry outputs to meet future needs, while at the same time enhancing conservation of forests and ecosystem services.

Learn more about WWF’s work to conserve forests and fight climate change today and every day, visit panda.org/forestclimate.

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WWF ENGAGED CIVIL SOCIETY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE HEART OF BORNEO

WWF-Indonesia, WWF-Malaysia and the Alliance of the Indigenous Peoples of the Highlands of Borneo (FORMADAT) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to forge a stronger and more formal partnership with a community organization in the Heart of Borneo (HoB). This is part of a new approach to widen coalitions and collaborations with civil society for conservation.

Under the MoU, the organizations will collaborate to encourage conservation and sustainable development in the Kelabit Highlands, Maligan Highlands, and Krayan (Kalimantan), as well as help realize a sustainable future in the homeland of local indigenous people in the very heart of Borneo.

The initiatives by FORMADAT— supported by WWF—include enhance sustainable agricultural practices and promotion of local products, trans-bor-der and community-based ecotourism, as well as help establish fair trading

networks across the border to provide the local communities with better market access that promotes sustainability.

FORMADAT, with WWF support, will continue to work towards the conserva-tion of water sources, river banks and community forests, protection of cultural historical sites and the protection of collective intellectual property rights of the indigenous peoples of the highlands.

The focus of the collaboration is in line with the green economy vision of the HoB Initiative which aims to transform economic practices by valuing natural

capital and enhancing benefits for those whose livelihoods depend on natural resources through support to local communities and the development of local green economic activities such as smallholder premium agriculture, responsible ecotourism, and sustainable nature resource management and environmental protection.

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GOOGLE MAPPING APP TO HELP ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAVE RAINFORESTS

Google Inc. is using its prowess at big-data analytics to try to save the world’s rainforests. The company, working with more than 40 partners, including the World Resources Institute and the United Nations Environment Programme, created a mapping tool to help groups and corporations track deforestation almost as it happens.

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REDD STILL ON CALIFORNIA’S RADAR

Market participants have been growing increasingly pessimistic about the possibility that offsets from projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) will make it into California’s cap-and-trade pro-gramme. But REDD credits may yet have a fighting chance, as officials with the California Air Resources Board confirmed that they will continue to consider adding international sector-based offsets to the programme.

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CONGO BASIN REDD+ GEF PROJECT REVIEWS PROGRESS

The World Bank and the Commission des Forets d’Afrique Centrale (COMIFAC) convened the fourth Steering Committee of the “Enhancing institutional capacities on REDD+ for sustainable forest management in the Congo Basin” project, which is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

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THE REDD DESK ANNOUNCES NEW COUNTRY DATABASES

The Global Canopy Programme’s REDD Desk is pleased to announce the release of the latest in a series of unique data-bases tracking country-level progress toward REDD+. The latest countries to be covered by the REDD Desk are Colombia, Guatemala, Bolivia, Costa Rica and Vanuatu, adding to a collabora-tive global research study now covering 26 countries.

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REDD+ SHOULD FINANCE CORRIDORS BETWEEN PROTECTED AREAS, ARGUES STUDY

The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) programme should finance protection of corridors linking existing protected areas in order to better safeguard biodiversity while simultaneously helping mitigate climate change, argues a recent study published in Nature Climate Change.

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