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Asian Governors To APEC Leaders: Support Carbon Market Compensations
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Vice-Governor Khenethong Sisouvong during his presentation on REDD experiences in Attapeu Province, Lao PDR
at the Green Governor’s Roundtable Meeting in Singapore, 12 November 2009
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Dorjee Sun and Governor of Indonesian Papua Discuss Carbon Credits
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On Thursday 12 November 2009, on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting that was hosted in Singapore,
a round table event for progressive Asian Governors was organized by ADB in collaboration with the Singapore-based private sector company Carbon Conservation.
The round table involved governors, vice governors and local government senior officials from across the Asia-Pacific.
The participating Asian governors were all targeting compensation under the emerging global forest carbon market – including the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) mechanism – to support provincial development.
They represented both those who have already begun specific efforts at the sub-national level and those just beginning to develop REDD concepts. GMS-EOC supported the participation of the Vice-Governor of Attapeu Province, Lao PDR.
The objective of the meeting was to discuss emerging models for sharing the benefits from REDD payments at the local, provincial, national, and regional levels – including potential links between REDD and regional efforts to combat transboundary haze.
The meeting was organized to maximize the opportunity for the governors to discuss and exchange experiences. After setting the scene with two examples of preparing for REDD from Aceh and West Papua Provinces in Indonesia,
ADB provided a background presentation on recent developments and prospects for a global scheme of payments for results and a forest carbon market. In the afternoon, each participating governor and province presented forest management experience, successes, challenges as well as lessons learned.
A moderated discussion will follow, focusing on common challenges and potential solutions to problems such as scaling, finance and sharing the benefits from REDD payments at the local, provincial, national, and regional levels.
The Roundtable participants agreed that the REDD+ approach offers tremendous promise in creating a new set of incentives for the preservation and sustainable management of forests, and they encouraged the APEC leaders, the international development community,
and those negotiating a post-2012 climate change agreement to bring this concept to reality so that the REDD+ mechanism can provide tangible local and global benefits.
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