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A Landscape Solution?
The document discusses a landscape-scale financing mechanism aimed at unlocking forest finance through investments of $1-2 billion in green bonds, targeting sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services. It emphasizes the need for substantial upfront investments driven by institutional investors and the importance of monitoring and verification systems at both national and community levels. The role of local communities in data collection and benefit-sharing is highlighted as essential for achieving sustainable and resilient livelihoods.
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- 1. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 1©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME A Landscape Solution?
- 2. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 2 UNLOCKING FOREST FINANCE OUR PARTNERS Coordinated by Global Canopy Programme South America Europe
- 3. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 3©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME Farmers / Landscape
- 4. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 4©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME A Landscape Scale Financing Mechanism • Modelling Transition Costs to Sustainability • Application of US$1 – 2 billion Green Bonds
- 5. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 5©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME Model the Cost of Transition at a Landscape Scale 1. Ecosystem Services 2. Sustainable Supply Chains: • Beef, soy, palm, aquaculture etc. 3. Resilient Livelihoods
- 6. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 6 WHAT SCALE OF INVESTMENT? Institutional investors say Natural Capital projects are too small. They ideally need to invest at US$ 0.5 – 2 billion scale Transition costs of agriculture are ideal – needing upfront investments in sub-national regions costing 1-2 US$ billion - in Acre alone. Needs ‘patient capital’ over 20-30 years Capital markets could use large scale Green Bonds with transformation of sub-national economies
- 7. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 7©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME Lessons $135 Billion/yr $1.1 Billion/yr
- 8. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 8©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME Community Monitoring Reporting & Verificaton - MRV • Quantify change? • Pay for Performance • Who should benefit? • Safeguards
- 9. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 9©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME Top Down meets Bottom Up • National MRV systems + Local C-MRV • National = Remote Sensing / Space • Needs “Ground Truth” • Local = Verification + Incentives + Equity • Communities well placed to provide this • And receive benefits in return
- 10. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 10©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME
- 11. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 11©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME
- 12. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 12©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME
- 13. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 13©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME
- 14. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 14©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME
- 15. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 15©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME Data replicated to the cloud
- 16. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 16©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME Three Primary Data Sets • Carbon > Forest Change • Ecosystem Services = Natural Resource Use • Community Wellbeing
- 17. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 17©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME Smap running on our own web server Form management ODK Collect Data management
- 18. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 18©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME
- 19. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 19©2014 GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME Lessons ?
- 20. ©2014 GLOBAL CANOPYPROGRAMME 20 www.globalcanopy.org