Presentation by Benoit Bosquet & Ken Andrasko, World Bank Scope of the global climate agreement, Forest Day 3 Sunday, 13 December 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark

1. Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
Lessons Learned on REDD+
by the Facility Management Team and
by REDD Country Participants
Benoit Bosquet & Ken Andrasko, World Bank
Forest Day 3, Copenhagen, December 13, 2009

2. FCPF: The Big Picture
FCPF established collaborative partnership & transparent
platform for meaningful exchanges on REDD+
• Pioneered REDD readiness • 37 REDD Country Participants
preparation process: R-PINs, • 11 Donor Participants
R-PPs, technical review
• 5 Carbon Fund Participants
• Most countries now actively
preparing for readiness • 6 Observers
• Due to high demand, REDD • Readiness fund : $ 112 m
Country participation • Carbon Fund: $55 m
increased from 0 to 20 to 37
www.forestcarbonpartnership.org

3. Two types of early insights emerge from FCPF
• Country insights: lessons various countries in
FCPF are learning
• REDD+ program insights: lessons that apply
to emerging REDD+ global programs like FCPF
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4. Country Insight 1: REDD+ readiness requires work on core
components, but no cookie-cutter approach
Countries begin considering REDD+ readiness from
different starting positions, reflecting their unique
conditions and history
Different drivers of deforestation imply different REDD+
strategies to address them
• Land use and land tenure patterns vary across countries
• Responses to a driver in one setting may not work in the
socioeconomic and institutional setting of another
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5. Country Insight 2: REDD+ requires unprecedented national
planning across sectors
Integrated vision of how REDD+ fits into an
emerging national, low-carbon development
strategy is required
• Mainstreaming REDD+ may require:
• putting REDD+ at the center of national development policy
• elevating REDD+ to highest levels of government
• Emerging national REDD+ steering committees are having to
adapt to calls for broad representation of stakeholders, and
transparency
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6. Country Insight 3: Readiness will require a step-wise approach
Preparation for readiness is a multi-step process
requiring definition of options for REDD+, evolution
of new institutional arrangements, and design of
delivery and MRV systems
• Reforming policies and institutions will take years
• Designing program delivery to the village or the forest requires
testing new incentives and institutional arrangements
• Early evaluation of progress, and course-correction when issues
occur, will be essential
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7. Country Insight 4: Inclusive consultations
are needed to forge a common vision on REDD+
Transparent consultations with major stakeholders offer
promise of REDD+ becoming more successful and
sustainable
• Governments generally have been reluctant to engage stakeholders on
REDD+ at first
• But they now see dividends from early and continuous engagement with
stakeholders
• Consultations broaden over time
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8. Country Insight 5: Analysis of deforestation and degradation drivers is
a critical step in planning for REDD+ in specific country conditions
Strong interrelationship among deforestation drivers,
reference scenario, REDD strategy, and MRV system
design
REDD+ MRV System
Assessment
Design:
of Strategy
Deforestation
Drivers + and Measure and
Governance Programs report on
change over
Establish reference
time
scenario
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9. Program Insight 1: FCPF has started to operationalize REDD+
Readiness, by adopting templates, processes and standards
R-PP provides comprehensive framework for organizing
national preparation for Readiness
Transparent, fair review using agreed standards shares
country experience , and drives up quality of R-PPs
• Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) transparent review of R-PINs and R-PPs: public
presentations and on web
• Guidance documents begin developed on issues and posted on web:
consultations, use of SESA safeguard process
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10. Program Insight 2: REDD+ is being country-driven
• FCPF governance is equally shared by REDD countries and
donors
• REDD countries write, present and defend their R-PPs
• Participants generate most of the knowledge based on
experience
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11. Program Insight 3: Scale, location, and timing of REDD+ emission
reductions will vary by country conditions
Country REDD+ Readiness will depend on how
quickly countries:
• Build REDD strategies and programs based on clear
diagnosis of deforestation drivers
• Begin to address key early governance concerns
• Access sufficient financial resources for capacity building,
institutional reforms, and investments
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12. Program Insight 4: Financing REDD+ requires a mix of funding types,
due diligence, and coordination
Countries are slowly identifying their funding
needs for readiness – and talking with a range of
funders. But this ‘funding cocktail’ needs to be
managed (through the R-PP or another national
process)
• Early planning costs more than FCPF $200,000 grants: perhaps
$500,000 in some countries
• Funding from FCPF requires World Bank due diligence & country
capacity to accept funding, using international best practices
• No experience with performance payments yet
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