Evenement: U-landsseminar med Regnskogfondet, IWGIA: Climate and Rainforest billions: How should the Norwegian Rainforest billions be used in order to achieve results, protect rainforests and respect the rights of forest peoples?
tirsdag 8. september 2009 kl. 17:15 på SV-bygget, Eilert Sundts hus, aud. 7
- Mariel Aguilar-Støen – Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo (Moderator)
- Hans Brattskar – Director of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
- Lars Løvold – Director, Rainforest Foundation Norway
- Sille Stidsen – Climate Change Programme Coordinator, International Workgroup for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
- Stephen H. Schneider – Climatologist, Stanford University
The destruction of tropical forests results in 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Norwegian Government has granted up to 3 billion NOK annually up to 2012 in order to protect the rainforests and reduce these emissions. This is done according to the Government’s principle of providing financial incentives to developing countries to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). There is much to be said for accommodating REDD within the incentives system of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The Climate Change summit in Copenhagen in December will be crucial for the future of our earth’s tropical forests and the hundreds of million people depending on rainforest resources. Will forest peoples’ rights be sacrificed on the altar of greenhouse gas emissions? Will a focus on reduced emissions upstage considerations for biological diversity? How should the Norwegian rainforest billions be spent in order to guarantee that our rainforest is not reduced to a ‘carbon warehouse’?
U-landsseminaret er tirsdager kl. 17.15 – 18.45, Auditorium 7, SV- bygningen (Eilert Sundts hus), Blindern, Oslo.