Symposium 

 

REDD+SCIENCE+GOVERNANCE:

Opportunities and Challenges

 

Tuesday 10 April, 2012

 

Hotel and Congrescentrum - Hof van Wageningen

Lawickse Alle 9 - 6701 AN Wageningen

 

 

 An initiative of the REDD@WUR network (www.redd.wur.nl)

 

 

 

 

SCOPE

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

FEE

REGISTRATION

ORGANISERS

INFORMATION

 

 

SCOPE

 

The symposium REDD+SCIENCE+GOVERNANCE will address key challenges and concerns regarding REDD+. It will touch upon REDD+ negotiations, different scientific perspectives on REDD+ and the actual implementation of REDD+ activities. The symposium forms the start of a week-long set of activities on REDD+ at Wageningen University, which also includes a post-graduate course (link to the course) and an authors’ workshop to discuss a forthcoming special issue on REDD+.

The symposium starts with key note speeches by a prominent researcher, practitioner and negotiator, who will later enter into a lively discussion touching on some of the contentious debates related to REDD+. During four parallel sessions in the afternoon, special issue authors present their work on REDD+ from both a natural and social science perspective. These sessions will address the governance of REDD+; Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems for REDD+; REDD+ in a larger context; and the implementation of REDD+ projects. In the plenary session that follows, the authors and the public will discuss some key propositions that came up during the parallel sessions. The symposium ends with a drink and a dinner.

PROGRAMME

 

Monday April 9th

18:00-20:00

Drinks/Dinner

Tuesday April 10th: Symposium (Chair: Martin Herold)

8:30-9:00

Symposium registration and coffee

9:00-9:30

Opening and introduction to REDD@WUR network

9:30-10:20

Key note “International REDD+ negotiations” by Daniel Murdiyarso, senior scientist at CIFOR & discussion

10:20-10:50

Break

10:50-11:40

Key note “Social safeguards and co-benefits in REDD+” (to be confirmed) & discussion

11:40-12:30

Key note “The policy and practice of REDD+ in India” by Swapan Mehra, CEO Iora Ecological Solutions India & discussion

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Parallel session 1: Policy, design and implementation of REDD+

  • Lars Hein: Lessons from PES and earlier (forest) policies 

  • Till Pistorius: From RED to REDD+: Negotiating a forest-based mitigation approach for developing countries under the UNFCCC

  • Gabrielle Kissinger: Broadening REDD: Implications for mitigation potential and MRV

  • Daniel Murdiyarso: Lessons learned from first generation REDD+ activities

 

Parallel session 2: MRV methods and technologies for REDD+

  • Frits Mohren: Forest inventories for carbon change assessments: a synthesis

  • Marcio Sales: Integrated systems and evolving technologies for forest carbon change monitoring and assessments

  • Niki de Sy/Martin Herold: Synergies of multiple remote sensing data sources for REDD+ monitoring   

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-17:00

Parallel session 3: Debating REDD+ from a social perspective

  • Esteve Corbera: Carbon commodification: a critical political ecology perspective on REDD+

  • Constance McDermott: Debating the breadth of REDD+: co-benefits and safeguards

  • Eva Lövbrand: REDD+ and carbon accountability

  •  Marjanneke Vijge: The influence of REDD+ on key trends in forest governance: the case of India

 

Parallel session 4: REDD+ in a broader context

  • Marielos Pena Claros: REDD+ in relation to forest management

  • Barney Dickson: Biodiversity monitoring for REDD+

  • Esther Turnhout: Social scientific perspectives on MRV

17:00-18:00

Plenary discussion

18:00-19:00

Drinks

19:00-21:00

Dinner

 
 

FEE

PhD's PE&RC/SENSE/WASS with TSP  €       30.00
Other PhD's and WU staff  €       60.00
Other participants  €     100.00

 

The fee includes drinks, lunch and diner

 

REGISTRATION

 

Please register by clicking here

 

Full registration only occurs once you have provided us with the requested information as stated above. Afterwards you will receive an official registration confirmation by the PE-RC Office.

 

Deadline for registration is Friday 30 March 2012.

 

ORGANISERS


Organised by:

  •  Environmental Policy Group (ENP)

  •  Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group (FNP)

  •  Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group (FEM)

  •  Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing (GRS)

Organising committee:

Aarti Gupta (ENP), Martin Herold (GRS), Marielos Pena Claros (FEM), Niki de Sy (GRS), Marjanneke Vijge (ENP), Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers (FNP) and Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)

In collaboration with the graduate schools:

  • C.T. de Wit Graduate School Production Ecology and Resource Conservation (PE&RC),

  • Wageningen School of Social Science (WASS),

  • Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE)

Sponsored by:

  • Interdisciplinary Research and Education Fund of Wageningen University (INREF)

  • COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)

  • C.T. de Wit Graduate School Production Ecology and Resource Conservation (PE&RC)

  • Wageningen School of Social Science (WASS)

  • Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE)

 

INFORMATION

 

For symposium content contact: Marjanneke Vijge (marjanneke.vijge@wur.nl).  

 

For logistical issues and registration contact PE&RC Office (office.pe@wur.nl)