The document summarizes a webinar series on multilevel governance for sustainable development presented by Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The series aims to foster policy learning across levels of governance through linking scientific knowledge with practical solutions. The first webinar focuses on deforestation and forest degradation, outlining many past international efforts that have seen limited success due to short time horizons. It presents the Governance, Environment and Markets Initiative's approach of managing knowledge for policy through an advisory board and research programs to nurture durable solutions by considering evolution and interaction across levels over the long term.

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Multilevel Governance

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The Idea
Governance, Environment and Market Initiative
- from short-term and single-focus approaches to
embracing multilevel complexity for durable results

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The Experts Available
Interdisciplinary GEM Advisory Board

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The Connecting Link
Multilevel Governance
- not restricted to one layer of influence
global
non-state
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- land use and climate change
- NGO corporate partnerships
- Global governance in the forest sector
- Globalization, consumption and environmental
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- Climate change as a super-wicked problem

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Scientific Knowledge
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GEM Scholar Practitioner
Dr. Benjamin Cashore Rony Soerakoesoemah
GEM Advisory Board ASEAN Secretariat

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introduction lecture practitioner discussion

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lecture practitioner discussion
Your question will be collected and prepared for the discussion

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Your scholar today:
Professor
Environmental Governance &
Political Science, Yale University
Dr. Benjamin Cashore

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Your practitioner today:
Head of IAI&NDG Division
ASEAN Economic Community
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ASEAN Secretariat, Indonesia
Rony Soerakoesoemah

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Webinar Series Multilevel
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Series: How can multilevel governance foster sustainable
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development? Linking knowledge and learning to practicable solutions.
Your scholar today: Professor
Environmental Governance &
Political Science, Yale University
Solving deforestation and degradation
through multi-level learning:
The GEM approach to managing
knowledge for policy in the global area.
Dr. Benjamin Cashore

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Governance, Environment, and Markets (GEM) Initiative
http://environment.yale.edu/gem
It aims to reorient environmental governance research and
practice
results based problem solving that embraces, rather than
bypasses, multi-level complexity.

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1 Point of Departure
The last quarter century has witnessed well intended efforts to
address environmental and resource challenges
International Conventions
Biodiversity
Climate
Market mechanisms
Marine Stewardship Council
Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil
Payments for ecosystems services
REDD+
Multitude of development aid projects

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1 Despite pockets of success
Most challenges becoming more acute
Fisheries depletion
Deforestation and Degradation
Climate change super wicked problem
Coral reefs
Water scarcity

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1 Five year attention spans
The result is that we are locked in a vicious cycle
5-8 year attention spans
A new instrument emerges
Lots of excitement, belief this approach will be different
Then frustration at limited impacts
New instrument then emerges to create new excitement
Meanwhile challenges getting more acute

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1 GEM Project: Focus on creating durable and
effective approaches
Must think more carefully about
Evolution
How to nurture support among stakeholders
Impacts on the ground
Interaction
How to uncover synergies across
Local, national, global
Private/market

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1 The task: Managing Knowledge for Policy
Foster policy learning among stakeholders
On interaction and evolution
Learning about potential of instruments
Unfolding pathway
Long term effects
Turns from often insufficient compromises among
stakeholders to
Collective problem solving

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1 Approach
Advisory Board
Network of scholars and practitioners
Five programs linking research to strategy
Forest Policy and Governance
Including work with IUFRO Task Force on
International Forest Governance & GIZ
Private Authority
Climate Policy and Governance
Law, Rights, Environmental Governance
Green Markets Lab (with CBEY)

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1 The Approach in Practice:
Deforestation and Degradation

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1 Deforestation
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1 Forest Degradation
51,1%
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1 Many International Efforts
International Tropical Timber Organization
Criticized by NGOs as logging charter
Global Forest Convention efforts at Rio
Failed
Global Forest Certification systems
Initial firm reluctance
Now, most industrial forest companies certified in
Europe and North America
Trick is to see how might improve support in tropics

26. Number of hectares under different certification standards
Source: Prepared by Ben Blom, 2009

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1 The Curious Case of Legality Verification
Gaining widespread support to weed out illegal logging from global
markets
Coalitions opposed previously now working together
US, EU forest companies and environmental groups
Legislation forbidding importing illegal wood
Aid agencies and trade agencies
Targeting poverty alleviation, trade liberalization
Developing country government emerging
As aim is to reinforce sovereignty, not challenge
Capacity building, training
Private third party auditors (who provide assurances of
compliance)

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1 What to Make of Legality Verification?
Pessimistic door
Modest is best we can do
Optimistic door
Part of ratcheting up evolution process
Synergistic interaction with
Domestic good forest governance initiatives
Might pave the way for forest certification

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1 Opening the Optimistic Door: Strategic Implications
Must first focus on why support/coalition is so large
Bootleggers and Baptists coalitions
Weeding out illegal supply improves legal operations
Price goes up
NGOs see weeding out some of worst practices

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1 Opening the Optimistic Door: Strategic Implications
Requirement for cross coalition benefits?
Supply chain tracking
Once supply chain tracking in place
Standards can be increased
In ways that reward companies, not punish
May pave the way for broader market based forest
certification systems
Since lack of supply chain tracking key stumbling
block
Could even trigger consumer consciousness

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1 Concluding thoughts
If we are correct
Need to link practitioner strategies
Away from short term focus
To longer term nurturing
Interaction and evolution
And this requires expanding time horizons
Especially so if initial modest standards
Might kick start evolutionary process in ways that
big bang single step approaches are unable