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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND

AFRICAN AGRICULTURE GRANTEE CONVENING

24-25 February 2011

Project Name: Carbon and Poverty Reduction Program

Grantee : William J. Clinton Foundation

Presenter : Jackson M. Kimani

Time allocated – 10 minutes

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Brief Background of the Institution

MISSION

Make a difference in the fight against climate change in practical,

measurable and significant ways.

The Clinton Climate Initiative

APPROACH • Generate Political Will

• Convene Stakeholders

• Stimulate Markets

• Remove Barriers to Scale-Up

• Organize Partners

• Mobilize Resources

• Share Best Practices

• Measure Results

PHILOSOPHY • Think Big

• Move Quickly

• Use Markets

• Create Partnerships

• Get Results

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Your other projects/programs on climate change

adaptation

South East Asia • Working in Indonesia and Cambodia where we have developed a

portfolio of REDD projects. The focus is on scaling up REDD+/Carbon projects in collaboration with government and other partners.

Guyana • CCI is supporting the government to implement its national MRV

system by creating the first end-to-end framework for a compliance-grade national MRV system. We are also supporting a comprehensive international bidding process for implementing partners. The framework created for the Guyanese Government will serve as a model for the development of MRV systems in other CCI partner countries.

COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE

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Objectives of the Rockefeller Foundation Grant

CARBON FOR POVERTY

REDUCTION

Ecosystem Services •Carbon sequestration

•Watershed protection

•Wildlife habitat and biodiversity

Livelihoods • Over 750 million people in

developing nations are directly

dependent upon tropical forests for

their survival

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Objectives of the Rockefeller Foundation Grant

• Develop and implement REDD+ projects emphasizing forest

conservation, reforestation, agro-forestry, selective logging; comply

with current - and anticipate future - REDD+ requirements

• Develop satellite-based measurement and monitoring, and remote-

sensing capability

• Develop awareness - climate change mitigation from forestry sector

• Assist development of infrastructure for REDD or VCS market

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Key Activities Related to the Grant

Forestry Program

• Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) framework and

systems for forest carbon stocks and emissions.

• Projects – Avoided Deforestation, Sustainable Forest Management,

and Afforestation and Reforestation projects in East Africa and

Southeast Asia that improve livelihoods in impoverished

communities.

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Highlight on the Progress to date

Kenya

• Feasibility assessment completed for a community reforestation

project in part of the Mau Forest Complex

• Community engagement activities commenced and ongoing. A

Community Forest Association (CFA) formed and registered as part

of these efforts

• Over 60 tree nurseries established and 80,000 seedlings planted by

community members

• Drafting and development of a PDD initiated in 2010

Tanzania

• Completed a decade-long process that will allow communities in a

Forest reserve in South Tanzania (Angai) legal ownership of the

forest

• Produced draft forest management plans and constitution that will

address coordination of forest management activities

• Conducted and completed a feasibility assessment for a

establishment of a REDD+ carbon project

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Key Challenges

• Scaling up REDD projects given technical (carbon science*) and

financial (fund transfer) barriers

• Protection of communities rights (gender, land tenure and user

rights)

• Guaranteeing equitable benefit sharing

• How to simplify REDD projects

• MRV

*”If you cannot measure it you cannot market it” (concerns about lack of agreement/consensus on carbon stock

methodology & assessments)

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Lessons Learnt

• Active involvement and participation of all relevant stakeholders right

from the very beginning is critical

• Working with governments is slow and participatory planning with

communities necessarily takes longer

• Engagement with local people has facilitated project implementation

• Combining carbon project and biodiversity conservation is a good

strategy to attract financers and buyers

• Long-term secure funding is a pre-requisite to implementation of

carbon projects

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Emerging Opportunities for Collaboration

• Partnership formed or in the process of being formed:

• The District of Liwale and the Forestry and Beekeeping Division

• The Government of Finland

• The Mpingo Conservation and Development Initiative

• University of Helsinki, Sokoine University and Yale University

researchers

• The Government of Kenya - Ministry of Environment and Mineral

Resources

• The Green Belt Movement

• Enoosupukia Community Forest Association

• The Government of Germany - Ministry of Environment,

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Next steps

• Complete the PDD for the Mau Forest Complex project and submit it

for validation and registration

• Complete and implement forest management plans for the Angai

Village Land Forest Reserve (AVLFR)

• Prepare cost benefit analysis to optimize the FSC and carbon mix for

the (AVLFR)

• Identify a funding source for the remainder of the project work