MPGCA Land Use: Maximizing the contribution of land use to a 1.5 C climate neutral and resilient world
Setting the Stage: Land use sector is as a solution to climate change
Moderator: Mario Bocucci
Speakers:
- Maka Monture, Indegenous and Youth representative, southeast Alaska
- Natural Climate Solutions, opportunities to achieve the Paris Agreement. Peter Ellis, Forest Carbon Scientist TNC
Topic 1: Landscape Restoration Moderator: Jamison Ervin, NYDF Secretariat
1) [Pre2020 action] Global restoration movement: Bonn Challenge and Barometer of Progress
- Carole Saint-Laurent, Deputy Director, Forest Conservation Programme IUCN
2) [Pre2020 action] New monitoring efforts: Global Restoration Platform
- Paige Langer, Research Analyst, Forest Programme WRI
3) [Post2020] UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
- Tiina Vahanen, FAO
4) [Vision 2050] Initiative: Building Resilience in the Central American Region under a Synergistic Approach between Mitigation and Adaptation - Focusing on Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) sector
- Jorge Ernesto Quezada, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources El Salvador
5) [Vision 2050] Indigenous People’s
Topic 2: Forest conservation and REDD+
Moderator: Frances Seymour, Distinguished Senior Fellow WRI
1) [Pre2020 action] SFM at large scale
- Paulo Hartung, Executive President IBA (TBC)
2) [Pre2020 action] Scaling Finance for Tropical Forest Protection
Eron Bloomgarden, Executive Director of Emergent
3) [Post2020] Government measures to finance restoration and SFM through resultbased payments
- Jose Antonio Prado, CONAF Chile
4) [Vision 2050] Protecting forest sinks and reservoirs
- Tom Evans, Director Forest Conservation and REDD+ Wildlife Conservation Society
5) [Vision 2050] Mesoamerican Fund for Strengthening Business Capabilities of
Indigenous Women and Community-Based Organizations, an opportunity for REDD + to include women living with forests.
- Sara Omi, President of the Alto Bayano IP Congress and Coordinator of leader of “Women Territorial Leaders of Mesoamerica”.
Topic 3 Supply chains and food systems
Moderator: Ms. Maria Jose Sanz, Scientific Director of the Basque
1) [Pre2020 action] Key barriers to climate action in land use sectors and how to
break them
- Kay Harrison, New Zealand Climate Change Ambassador
2) [Pre2020 action] High Carbon Stock Approach
- Grant Rosoman, HCSA Executive
Committee member
3) [Post2020] Targets of 2030 climate action package of Germany under the Climate Action Plan 2050
- Bernhard Osterburg, Thunen Institute
4) [Post2020] Transforming Food Systems Under Climate Change
- Deissy Martínez Barón, CCAFS Regional Coordinator for Latin America.
5) [Vision 2050] Shift of subsidies and fiscal incentives
- Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, the World Bank
Topic 4: Greening cities
Moderator: Frances Seymour, Distinguished Senior Fellow WRI
1) [Pre2020 action] Making Cities Resilient & Cities With Nature
- Yunus Arikan, Director of Global Advocacy, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability
2) [Post2020] Role local authorities are playing in improving forest awareness, management and conservation of cities’ forests
- local government/city representative
3) [Vision 2050] A pathway for action for policymakers, finance and investment,
technology and innovation, activity implementers, and civil society to successfully re-greening cities by 2020, 2030, and 2050
- Andres Flores, WRI Mexico
Topic 5: Finance for the forest and land use sector
Moderator: Josefina Brana-Valera, WWF
1) [Pre2020 action] Status of climate finance for the forest and land use sector
- Paul Simpson, CDP’s CEO
2) [Pre2020 action] Finance4Forest Initiative
- Jennifer Morris, CI’s President
3) Funding modalities for forest and land use activities
- Janie Rioux, Senior Agriculture and Food Security Specialist, GCF
4) [Post2020] Global Environmental Facility
- Gustavo Fonseca, Director of Programs - GEF 7
5) [Post2020] Bhutan for Life: Financing Permanent Protection for 51% of a Nation
with Benefits for Climate and People
- Dr. Jigme Tenzin, Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS) of Bhutan
- [Vision 2050] Private sector lead company
Closing: Roadmap for Land use Sector
Moderator: Mario Bocucci