World Bank-led Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) will Demonstrate New Incentives for Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Bali, Indonesia (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 11, 2007 -- The Nature Conservancy has apprenticed $5 actor appear the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), an avant-garde new action launched today by the World Bank to abode the better disregarded contributor to altitude change -- the abolition of forests.
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We’ll never break the altitude claiming unless we abode the accident of close forests, which puts out as abundant carbon dioxide as all the planes, trains and cars worldwide Now, through this partnership, we will appearance how banking incentives for attention and sustainably managing forests can be a win-win-win -- acceptable for the climate, acceptable for biodiversity and acceptable for bounded communities. We anticipate this broad-based affiliation will activate abutment for developing countries as they plan to action deforestation and altitude change This action is a applied pilot to aggrandize the accoutrement for Climate Change negotiations The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility signals that the apple cares about the all-around amount of forests and is accessible to pay for it. This can change the bread-and-butter options for abounding humans who depend on the forests for their livelihoods. There is now a amount to conserving, not just agriculture the forest. The advertisement was fabricated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia.
"We’ll never break the altitude claiming unless we abode the accident of close forests, which puts out as abundant carbon dioxide as all the planes, trains and cars worldwide,” said Stephanie Meeks, acting CEO and President of The Nature Conservancy, at today’s account conference. “Now, through this partnership, we will appearance how banking incentives for attention and sustainably managing forests can be a win-win-win -- acceptable for the climate, acceptable for biodiversity and acceptable for bounded communities.”
“We anticipate this broad-based affiliation will activate abutment for developing countries as they plan to action deforestation and altitude change,” connected Meeks.
The Nature Conservancy is the alone non-governmental alignment to advance in this effort. By participating, the Conservancy can accord credible, candid and environmentally-sound approaches for including aegis and acceptable administration of close forests as allotment of the global band-aid to altitude change.
ABOUT THE FCPF:
The FCPF will be the aboriginal all-embracing all-embracing accomplishment to appearance – through accurate demonstrations and pilot programs – a astute aisle for abbreviation emissions from deforestation and the abasement of backwoods ecosystems (REDD). With REDD acceptable a axial allotment of the negotiations underway in Bali and the next all-around altitude deal, the FCPF provides an befalling to innovate, agreement and apprentice applied solutions while those negotiations are underway.
“This action is a applied pilot to aggrandize the accoutrement for Climate Change negotiations,” said World Bank President Zoellick. “The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility signals that the apple cares about the all-around amount of forests and is accessible to pay for it. This can change the bread-and-butter options for abounding humans who depend on the forests for their livelihoods. There is now a amount to conserving, not just agriculture the forest.”
The FCPF will plan in two capital ways. First, through the $100 actor Readiness Fund, developing countries in the tropics can accept abstruse and banking abetment to admeasurement the carbon currently stored in forests, appraise the drivers that advance to backwoods accident and actualize civic strategies that bigger abate deforestation, a allotment of added activities. In addition, the FCPF will advance accurate methodologies and standards to admeasurement and verify reductions in emissions consistent from efforts to absolute deforestation. The affairs will advance the assurance of all backwoods stakeholders -- from aboriginal groups to industry -- in the development and accomplishing of these strategies.
Second, through the $200 actor Carbon Fund, the FCPF will agreement with banking mechanisms that advance to measurable, absolute reductions in deforestation emissions. For example, a country accommodating in this pilot affairs may accept banking incentives for affair specific achievement targets, such as abbreviation their civic amount of backwoods accident and degradation. These pilot approaches will accommodate acquaint about how to calmly and deservedly deliver these revenues.
The Conservancy will accompany added investors in the Facility, including the governments of Germany, Japan, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland, a allotment of others. The Partnership is accepted to allure added clandestine investors in the advancing year.
THE ROLE OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY:
The Conservancy will play a key role in the success of the FCPF, accouterment technical, accurate and structural ability acquired through decades of on-the-ground acquaintance alive with bounded peoples, communities and governments about the world. For over 10 years, Conservancy scientists accept been developing strategies in places such as Bolivia, Brazil and Indonesia for community-based backwoods management, backwoods acceptance and carbon accounting.
WHY FORESTS MATTER:
Deforestation and backwoods abasement anniversary for 20 percent of carbon emissions globally, authoritative it the additional better contributor to altitude change. Many internationally-respected experts accept the alone astute way to stop deforestation is to actualize banking incentives for developing countries to assure and sustainably administer their forests.
THE OUTCOME:
Leaders achievement that through these efforts, the FCPF will accommodate real-world, applied acquaintance that will acquaint the all-embracing altitude negotiations about Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). These negotiations could advance to new avant-garde banking mechanisms with the abeyant to approach billions of dollars annually to backwoods attention and management, accidental to emissions reductions, bulb and wildlife attention and bounded livelihoods.
For added than a decade, The Nature Conservancy has been a baton in the across of backwoods carbon, putting into convenance -- in six countries, on over 1.5 actor acreage -- strategies for abbreviation emissions from deforestation, including one of the a lot of rigorous, all-embracing backwoods carbon projects anytime done, the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia.
For added advice on the Conservancy’s altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.
The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.
Contact:
In Bali:
Steve Ertel, 081 338 965184, sertel@tnc.org
Bridget Lowell, 081 338 965183, blowell@tnc.org
In US:
Cristina Mestre, +1 (703) 841-8779, cmestre@tnc.org
