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Forests, land use and carbon: a dialogue on the issues
This special event was sponsored by the World Bank in assocation with the World Resources Institute and the Nature Conservancy. Its objective was to discuss and disseminate information on the technical issues relating to implementing transferable emissions reductions from forest and land use change projects.
In this real audio interview, Paige Brown from the World Resources Institute talks about the aims and outcomes of today's meeting, and discusses her hopes for the conference.
RealAudio excerpt from
the presentation
Paige L. Brown, World
Resources Institute WRI (paigeb@wri.org), www.wri.org/wri, Anotonio G. M. La Vina, WRI (tonylav@wri.org), and Ken Chomitz, World Bank, kchomitz@worldbank.org during the World Bank
sponsored panel addressing forests, land use and carbon.
Jorge González Torres, of La Federacion
de Partidos Verdes de las Americas, expressed concern that such a small emphasis was put
on forest land use and carbon issues at the conference during a World Bank sponsored side
event
ENB team member Chris
Spence interviews Paige Brown, World Resources Institute, www.wri.org
inform on the progress the insurance Initiative has made since Kyoto,
present the Executive summary of the report "The Kyoto Protocol, Implications for the Insurance Industry" which provides an overview of the insurance view point regarding the three mechanisms under the Protocol,
discuss the application of the corporate CO2 indicator by the UK companies launched by the Insurance Initiative.
Jacob
Werksman, Farhana Yamin and Jürgen Lefevere of Foundation for International
Envirnomental Law and Development (FIELD, www.field.org.uk/)
Professor Jose Goldemberg, University of Sao
Paulo, Dr. Robert Hamwey and Dr. Andrea Beranzini, International Academy of the
Environment, (www.iae.org) lead a panel discussion on
opportunities for emissions reductions through carbon taxes
Other key speakers included the IEA's Richard Baron, who talked about institutional issues for emissions trading and joint implementaion.
Fiona Mullins,
OECD, spoke on national and international systems for emissions trading, while Richard
Baron, International Energy Agency, addressed institutional issues for emissions trading
and joint implementation
Side event on enhancing policy-making capacity under the UNFCCC
This event, sponsored by the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), reported on enhancing policy-making capacity under the UNFCCC reported on the results of an EU-funded project addressing future commitments of developing countries. Panelists discussed the issues raised by compliance procedures in general and for flexible mechanisms, in particular. In addition, difficulties in collecting data with respect to emissions trading and the clean development mechanism were discussed.
Group picture of Jacob Werksman, jw18@soas.ac.uk, and Farhana Yamin, fy1@soas.ac.uk, from FIELD (www.field.org.uk/) listening to John Lanchbery,
Birdlife International, john.lanchbery@rsb as he
fields questions regarding his paper on criteria for effective emissions trading
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