Is the window of opportunity
for REDD+ closing?
COP18 side event: Doha, EU Pavilion, 29 November 2012
Luca Perez
European Commission
Directorate General for Research & Innovation
Unit I.4 Climate Change and Natural hazards

The 7th Framework Programme for Research and
Technological Development (2007-2013): What it is
• Multi-annual regional programme for funding research in Europe and
beyond – in principle all parts are open to international cooperation
• Managed by the European Union
• Contributions: 27 EU Member States + 14 Associated Countries*
• FP7 Budget: > € 50 bn over 7 years
• Grants to co-finance research activities (in priority areas)
• Structured around 4 Specific Programmes:
• 1. Cooperation – collaborative research
• 2. Capacities – capacity building for research (network, research
infrastructure, etc.)
• 3. People – individual fellowships
• 4. Ideas – frontier research (European Research Council)
* 14 Associated Countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Faroe Islands, Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia,
Switzerland, Turkey

The Framework Programme:
How it works
• Implemented through annual calls for proposals
• Grants awarded on competitive basis
• Participation open to research actors anywhere in the world
• Funding possibilities for developing countries and transition
economies similar to those of EU/Associated countries

FP7 Budget Breakdown by Specific Programme
2007-2013 (in million)
Cooperation Ideas
Total: €53 272 €32 413 €7 510
Collaborative
research
Frontier
10 Thematic Areas:
research
Environment (including CC)
+ 9 others
Fellowships,
Grants
Capacity
building for
research
JRC Euratom Capacities People
€1 751 €2 751 €4 097 €4 750

Contributions to Non-Annex I participants in
collaborative projects (Climate Change Activities
2007-2012, FP7 Cooperation programme)

FP7 Cooperation Programme
• The “Cooperation” Specific Programme supports collaborative
research through projects carried out by transnational
consortia comprising min. 3 different countries
• 10 thematic areas, of which 6 are Climate Change related
• Bulk of Climate Change collaborative research falls under the
Environment Theme
• But…other themes also support climate–relevant research
(e.g. 'Energy', 'Transport', 'Food & Agriculture', 'Space')
• Budget for Environment Theme (2007-2013): € 1.89 bn
• Priorities for Climate Change collaborative research:
• Understanding the past, present and future of the climate
system and its processes
• Quantifying climate change impacts on humans and nature
• Identifying and assessing mitigation and adaptation options

Example: Carbon and nitrogen cycles
CARBO-EUROPE: quantified the C sources & NITRO-EUROPE:
sinks from terrestrial ecosystems (e.g.
forest, soils, agriculture, peatlands) in Europe -
and decreased the uncertainty associated Established a comprehensive new European
with each value through novel Nitrogen budget
methodologies, new measurements and - Assessed its impact on climate
state-of-the art modelling. - Measured costs and benefits of Nitrogen
impacts on climate, ecosystems and health
CARBO-OCEAN: quantified the marine C sources - Provided policy recommendations to reduce
and sinks in the North Atlantic and assessed negative Nitrogen impacts on earth
their strength over the past 15 years. This
was achieved through prototype observing Findings of NITROEUROPE have been already
systems and model development. transferred to relevant UN processes/conventions

PAGE21 GHG-EUROPE
►Understand and quantify the vulnerability of ► Attribution of GHG emissions from
permafrost environments to a changing global terrestrial ecosystems to anthropogenic and
climate natural drivers
► Investigate the feedback mechanisms ► Assess the mitigation potential of
associated with increasing greenhouse gas European agriculture and forests
emissions from permafrost zones
CARBOCHANGE REDD-ALERT & IREDD+
► Predict changes in ocean C uptake under ► Quantifying GHG emissions and
changing climate conditions removals in tropical forests and peatlands
► Close collaboration with (and contributing to) ► Developing and testing a monitoring,
international research programs (IMBER,SOLAS reporting and verification (MRV) systems.
and the Global Carbon Project) ► Assessing the benefits and costs of REDD+
policies for livelihoods at local communities.

REDDiness: Building EO capacity in Africa
Support EO-driven forest and carbon monitoring in Central Africa for REDD
• Transfer robust Earth
Observation (EO) methods in
monitoring deforestation and
forest degradation
• Enhance estimations of
carbon values of Africa’s
forests
• Strengthen national forest
monitoring centers in Gabon
and Republic of Congo and
improve the regional network
• 3 European and African
partners
• FP7 Action ─ 2011-2013

REDDAF: Objective
REDD for AFrica: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Africa
• REDDAF supports African
Congo Basin countries in
monitoring deforestation and
forest degradation
• R&D to develop pre-
operational EO based Forest
Monitoring services
• REDDAF is embedded in
national REDD programmes in
Cameroon and Central African
Republic

Further new large initiatives
• WP2013:
• Topic 6.1-4 "Land cover and land-use change and
climate change mitigation" (under evaluation 1st stage)
 Quantification of the net climate effects of land cover and land use
changes (both direct and indirect)
 Improved representation of land cover and land use change in global
climate models
 Interplay with adaptation and drivers such as energy security, water
availability and food production
 integrated assessment approach for exploring risks, opportunities,
trade-offs
 Improved methodologies for MRV

Further information
• http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
• www.ec.europa.eu/research: EU’s Research Portal
• www.ec.europa.eu/research/fp7: General information on FP7
• www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7: Specific information on FP7
programmes, projects and calls
• http://ec.europa.eu/research/inco for updates of particular
collaborative opportunities in 2012 for third countries and
regions.

THANK YOU!
Contact for DG RTD:
Luca Perez, DG RTD I.4
luca.perez@ec.europa.eu