LocationZoom registration link: https://bit.ly/3ckjoCw28 September 2020 – 28 October 2020

From reporting to payments: Current state and trends of REDD+ reporting to the UNFCCC – #GFOI2020 Series Webinar #6

Date: 28 October

Time: 14:00-15:00 CET

Register here to participate

GFOI partner the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing a webinar to examine the current state and trends of REDD+ reporting (*)  to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Objectives

• Highlight the important progress on REDD+ reporting to the UNFCCC
• Reflect on quality of UNFCCC-reported REDD+ results and their ability to underpin results-based payments
• Jointly think about likely future development of REDD+ reporting
• Launch the paper “From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the UNFCCC – 2020 update”

Agenda

Why do countries dedicate their efforts to reporting their REDD+ results to the UNFCCC? How can they further improve their data quality and will their efforts be rewarded with results-based payments? These are some of the questions that will be addressed by the speakers during this webinar, which includes representatives of REDD+ countries, GCF, NICFI and other GFOI partners.

• Margaret Athieno Mwebesa, National REDD+ Focal Point, Uganda
• Ellen Bruzelius-Backer, Policy Director, Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
• Juan Chang, Forestry Specialist, Green Climate Fund (GCF)
• Peter Iversen, Team Lead (Land Use), United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 
• Alfred Rungol, General Manager MRV, Papua New Guinea

Resources

• COMING SOON! From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the UNFCCC – 2020 update
• From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the UNFCCC – 2019 update

#GFOI2020 webinar series

This appointment is the sixth of the #GFOI2020 webinar series organized in lieu of the GFOI 2020 Plenary, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contacts

For more information, please contact office@gfoi.org

(*) Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries.