Mexico has opportunities to pursue REDD+ conservation and low carbon development. It can build institutional capacity, improve existing programs like payments for ecosystem services, promote sustainable forest management, and improve monitoring of land use change using its national forest inventory. Mexico's GHG emissions include around 10% from land use and forestry, mainly from deforestation and degradation. The country is developing a national REDD+ strategy with implementation at different scales, from community projects to national programs. This will help transition Mexico's forest sector from a source of emissions to a carbon sink through activities like reforestation, sustainable forest management, and payments for environmental services.

1. Mexico’s REDD+Conservation and Low Carbon Development Opportunities.REDDexCancún, July 14, 2010

2. Mexico’s REDD+ Conservation and Low Carbon Development Opportunities.Outline presentation Key elements for low-carbon development throughout REDD+Mexico’s GHG emissionsReference scenarioBiomass densityMonitoring 25,000 sampling conglomerateNationalReadiness Management ArrangementsImplementation scalesProblem and opportunities

3. Key elements for low-carbon development throughout REDD+Building and/or strengthening institutional capacities

4. Government: SEMARNAT, CONAFOR, INE, CONANP, CONABIO, PROFEPA, SAGARPA

5. Research: ECOSUR, COLPOS, ProgramaMexicano de Carbono

6. OSC: WWF, TNC, CI, CCMSS, FMCN

7. Landholders and Indigenous People

8. Professionals on Forestry Sector

9. Improving targeting and effectiveness of existing programs (PES) and/or extending its coverage (communitarian forestry -PROCYMAF-).

10. Promoting Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and diversification

11. Improving monitoring capabilities for LU/LUC based on National Forest Inventory.

12. Integrating new national and local financing mechanisms (carbon finance) with positive impact on biodiversity conservation and livelihoods of forest landholders and inhabitants.Mexico’s GHG emissions: More than 700 MtCO2e10% of GHG total emissions in Mexico comes from LULUCF:Deforestation

13. Degradation -forest fires, erosion, pests, abandoned forests Reference scenarioDeforestation riskVariables included:Population density

14. Proximity to population and comercialization centers

15. Roads

16. Land suitability (slope)Fuente: ECOSUR

17. Biomass densityBiomass class (tdb/ha)Non-forestLowMediumHighBiomass density map updated from National Forest InventorySource: ECOSUR (2009)

18. ABOUT 25,000 SAMPLING CONGLOMERATES

19. National Readiness Management ArrangementsCTC REDD+Technical Advisory CommitteeCSO+Gov.Institutional support from the highest political level for the design and implementation of any CC Strategy.

20. Looking for synergies between policy programs and budget allocation.

21. Build legal and institutional frameworks as appropriate,

22. Work as one government regarding climate change M&A.National Readiness Management ArrangementsMultidisciplinary

23. Space for analysis and discussion

24. Space for building consensus and agreement

25. Building a common visionParticipation has begun recently

26. Implementation scalesCommunity and IP´s REDD+ Project 1 tCo2Intermunicipal REDD+ Project10 Mt4 tCo2National Emissions ReductionsNational Reference Scenario (spatially explicit)

27. National Monitoring and Accounting SystemState REDD+ Project5 tCo2Sub-national REDD projects2010 - 201570 MtCO2National ProgramsLand Planning/Surveillance/Law Enforcement15 tCo2SFM and certification5 tCo260 MtMexican Forest FundImproved Agriculture and Grazing (PROCAMPO, PROGAN15 tCo2ProÁrbol25 tCo2

28. aforestaciónreforestaciónmanejoforestal“conservación”DeforestaciónDegradación“+”Sólolasaccionesadicionalesqueeviten DD o quemejoren los acervosREDD+Densidadde carbonotC/haAcervo de Carbono en los BosquesSuperficieha

29. Current programs at national scale: ProÁrbol, SAGARPA, SEDESOL…3. Identify National programs that should adjust policies to promote REDD + activities, or to compensate undesirable current effects.Adjust PROGANAdjust PROCAMPOAdjust+Reconvert other national and state programs…1. REDD+ activitiesSustainable Forest ManagementCommunitarian ForestryPayment for Environmental ServicesSoil conservation and restorationForest fires and pest protectionCBMA. Meso American Biological Corridor…2. Carbon sequestration activitiesReforestationCommercial plantationsAgroforestry

30. Development objective100%Sustainable Management of Forest REDDConservation and stock enhancementForest CoverTransition of the forest sectorfrom source to a sink0%Time

31. Problems and opportunities for a low carbon development

32. Focal Points:Sergio Graf Monterosgraf@conafor.gob.mxJosé Carlos Fernández jcfernandez@conafor.gob.mx Panelist:Leonel Iglesias-Gutiérrezliglesias@conafor.gob.mxThank you very much