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The Governors’ Climate & Forests Task ForceOverview

William BoydGCF SecretariatUniversity of Colorado Law School

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14 states/provinces from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and United States

Substantial share of the world’s tropical forests in GCF states/provinces

Multi-jurisdictional process for sub-national cooperation on climate and forests

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GCF

Aceh, IndonesiaEast Kalimantan, IndonesiaPapua, Indonesia

West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Acre, BrazilAmapa, BrazilAmazonas, BrazilMatto Grosso, Brazil

Cross River State, Nigeria

Pará, Brazil

Campeche, Mexico

California, U.S.Illinois, U.S.Wisconsin, U.S.

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GCF ChairAmazonas | Pará 2010

California 2009

GCF States and Provinces United States Indonesia Mexico Brazil Observer States California Aceh Campeche Acre Sinoe County, Liberia Illinois East Kalimantan Pará West Papua, Indonesia Wisconsin Papua Nigeria Amazonas Chiapas, Mexico West Kalimantan Cross Mato Grosso River State Amapa

IndonesiaCountry Coordinator

BrazilCountry

Coordinator

GCF Secretariat

Working Group 1 Working Group 2 Working Group 3 Project Level Standards Accounting Frameworks Needs Assessment and Criteria and Coordination Mechanisms

StakeholdersPartners

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GCF milestones and key events (2009-2010)

Belém Meeting (June 2009) – formal establishment of GCF; adoption of Joint Action Plan; creation of 3 working groups

LA meeting (Sept 2009) – GCF Governors meeting; adoption of REDD protocol assessment and needs assessment scoping study; joint Governors’ letter to the Presidents of Brazil, Indonesia and US

Copenhagen COP 15 (Dec 2009) – GCF Governors meeting Sacramento (Feb 2010) – Technical Workshop on REDD

Regulatory Design Banda Aceh Meeting (May 2010) Pará Meeting (Sept/Oct 2010) Cancun COP 16 (Dec 2010)

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GCF Working Groups Working group 1 – standards and criteria

Clarity on general criteria for project-level activities Support multiple pathways to compliance standards for

nested projects Working group 2 – coordination and accounting

State/province REDD program development; stakeholder and governance issues

Connecting projects with state/province-level performance (nesting)

Linkage agreements between compliance systems and state/province REDD programs

Working group 3 – needs assessment Facilitating state/province needs assessments;

knowledge database Strategy for accessing interim public finance

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GCF Priorities 2010-2011Communications & stakeholder

involvement

REDD actions development

Financing

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Work Tasks from Aceh Meeting Outputs for September Meeting

Report on GCF design recommendations for subnational REDD frameworks for review and approval at GCF September 2010 meeting to be finalized as GCF Report for COP 16

Continued work on public financing opportunities for GCF member states and provinces

Building GCF knowledge database Communications strategy & enhancement of

stakeholder involvement in GCF process – explore more formal mechanisms for stakeholder input into GCF process

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Task 1: GCF Report on Subnational REDD Frameworks

Issues for consideration include REDD crediting options State-level accounting Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification Nesting project level activities with state level

performance Safeguards – FPIC; Protection of rights and interests;

benefit sharing Models for multi-stakeholder governance

Timeline Draft report for review & comment by September 2010

GCF meeting Final report for presentation at COP 16

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