Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries: REDD
Since 2005, with ups and down, I have been an active member of the delegation of Panama to the UN Framework convention on climate change (UNFCC). There I have been negotiating an agenda item known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries). We are currently negotiating this topic in two distinct front, a technical one having to do with establishing baseline for emissions reference levels a, systems for monitoring, verifying and reporting emissions reductions, and systems of information on safeguards. A parallel negotiation is taking palce largely focussing on financing options. A first decisionr eached in Bali, in 2007, has allowed countries to initiate demosntration activities. Panama is participating in such activities in the context of both the Forest Carbon Partnership facility of the World Bank and of the UN-REDD program. I am working as a scientific advisor for Panama in the implementation of these demonstration activities.
Workshop with Panama’s Assembly of Chiefs on REDD+ project held in Sambu, Panama, July 2010,
in collaboration with the Environmental Leadership Training Initiative.
Related Publications:
- Pelletier, J., Ramankutty, N. and Potvin, C. (2011) Diagnosing the uncertainty and detectability of emission reductions for REDD+ under current capabilities: an example for Panama. Environmental Research Letters 6 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/024005
>> download Supplementary Material for the article - Isenberg, J. and Potvin, C. Financing REDD in Developing Countries: A Supply and Demand Analysis. Climate Policy (In press November 25th 2009)
- Oestreicher, J.S., Benessaiah, K., Ruiz-Jaen, M.C., Sloan, S., Turner, K., Pelletier, K., Guay, B., Clark, K.E., Roche, D.E., Meiners, M., and C. Potvin. Avoiding deforestation in Panamanian protected areas: An analysis of protection effectiveness and implications for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Global Environmental Change 19: 279-291.
- Potvin, C. and Bovarnick, A. 2008. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries: Key actors, negotiations and actions. In Press - Carbon and Climate Law Review Special Edition: Climate Policy, Carbon Markets and Forestry, Legal Essays (August 4th 2008). [online]
- Potvin, C., Guay, B. and Pedroni, L. 2008. Implementing the mechanisms proposed to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: A case study with Panama. Climate Policy 8: 23-40.
- Coomes, O.T., Grimard, F., Potvin, C. and Sima, P. 2008. The fate of tropical forest: carbon or cattle? Ecological Economics 65: 207-212.
- Potvin, C., Coomes, OT and Grimard, F. 2007. Will RED work where it should? Science July 10th 2007
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