Rainforests and Climate Change: Making Sustainable Development Possible

18th June 2009: The Rainforest Foundation Norway welcomes to an international conference on rainforest and climate change.

Marina Silva, senator from Brazil, Angela Cropper, UNEP Deputy Executive Director and United Nations Assistant Secretary General and Senior Scientist Daniel C. Nepstad, the Moore Foundation are among the prominet speakers at the conference.

18th June 2009
Clarion Hotel Royal Christiania - Oslo

See Agenda below.

Forest peoples righs must be secured in a new climate and forest agreement
Foto: Marcelo Botelho-OBritoNews-ISA

Rainforests and Climate Change: Making Sustainable Development Possible

AGENDA

08.00  Registration and morning coffee

08.30 Inaugural Session

Welcome
Trudie Styler, Co-Founder of The Rainforest Foundation & Lars Løvold, Director, Rainforest Foundation Norway

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: A new role for the UN
Angela Cropper, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program

Norway's international climate and forest initiative: Goals and ambition
Erik Solheim, Minister of Environment and International Development

Questions and answers session

09:40 Session 2:
The role of forests (in a climate change perspective)

Chair: Elin Enge

Forests in the balance: forests as providers of ecosystem services vs. emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
Daniel Nepstad, Chief Program Officer, The Environmental Conservation Programs, Moore Foundation, USA

Forests in the new climate agreement: What would be the ideal solution?
Frances Seymour, Director General, Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia

Panel - questions and answers session

11.25 Session 3:
Respecting local rights, rewarding local communities

Indigenous peoples and forest dependent communities' rights according to international law and their implications for international climate policies.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Chair, UN Permanent Forum on Ind igenous Issues, and Executive Director, Tebtebba, the Philippines

Protecting whose forest? REDD and the ongoing contested land claims
Sandra Moniaga, Head of Learning Center, Association for Community and Ecologically-based Law Reform (HuMa), Indonesia

Statement by partners of Rainforest Foundation
Kenn Mondiai, Chairman, Eco-Forestry Forum, Papua New Guinea

Panel - questions and answers session

12.40 Lunch

13.40 Session 4: The economics of standing forests:
Can climate related financing schemes become the basis for new, low carbon development models in forest-rich countries?

Fighting deforestation, stimulating development and strengthening the rights of forest peoples in the Amazon: How to combine multiple agendas in practical politics. Presentation (Portuguese)
Marina Silva, Senator, Brazilian Senate, and Minister of the Environment 2003 - May 2008, Brazil

What will it cost? Paying for avoided emissions, paying for ecosystem services or paying to pollute? Costs and consequences of alternative models for maintaining forests and forest carbon
Arild Angelsen, Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

The new willingness to pay: Climate change as a catalyst for implementing a truly sustainable development model in forest-rich developing countries
Lars Løvold, Director, Rainforest Foundation Norway

Panel - questions and answers session

15.05 Session 5: Wrap-up and conclusions by panelists

16.00: Finished