Renato Farias presents the “Cotriguaçu Sempre Verde” initiative, a REDD+ initiative. He talks about its origin, challenges and some results of the initiative.

1. Getting REDD+ Off the Ground:
Challenges and Opportunities
Friday, 15 November 2013
Column Hall, University of Warsaw
The “Cotriguaçu Sempre
Verde” initiative
Renato Farias
Adjunct Coordinator
Renato Farias
Adjunct Coordinator

2. THE ORIGIN OF THE REDD INITIATIVE
2007/2009 – REDD NORTHWEST - MT INITIATIVE
Partnership

3. Cotriguaçu Sempre Verde Grosso Region
(2011/2014)
Northwest Mato Project (2009/2010)
Cotriguaçu Pilot
Challenges:
Objective:
• Forest area: 108 000 km²,
82% remaining
• Diversity of stakeholders and
land use categories:
• 11 indigenous lands (31%)
and 9 protected areas (4%)
• Medium-large private
properties (62%)
• 11 smallholder settlements
(3%)
How to engage people without
To promote a new trajectory for
direct payment in short-term after
social and economic
diagnose?
development, based on the
conservation and sustainable
How to involveof natural resources.
all stakeholders in
• Previous investment in
management
sustainable development
the objective?
initiatives, e.g.: GEF/UNDP

4. The path: activities
by demand
Indigenous
Groups
Territorial
Management Plan
for Indigenous
Lands
Small Farmers
Natural Resource
Management in
Rural Settlements
Municipal GOVT
Developing
Environmental
Management
Capacity
CSV
Loggers
Responsible
Practices in
Sustainable
Forestry Program
(PRODEMFLOR)
Cattle Ranchers
Responsible
Practices in Cattle
Ranching
Program (BPA)

5. We used two main
strategies to address
these demands:
Preparing our team internally
Working with the stakeholders separately
until we get concrete results in the ground

6. Some results of
these process…
Indigenous
Groups
Territorial
Management
Plan built
Small Farmers
New economic
activities
implemented
to:
Municipal GOVT
Active Council
Aproved
Amazon Fund
CSV
Loggers
All owners of
timber
mangement
plans in the
Program
Cattle Ranchers
First Cattle
property of MT
with certificate
20 Units
implemented
Building the
Green
Municipality
Agreement
with
commitment
to zero illegal
deforestation;

7. Key messages
• Need to prepare team internally to work with
different stakeholder groups
• Work to cultivate trust of local stakeholders
• Zero illegal deforestation agreement in Cotriguaçu a
consequence of new territorial management model
and not the initial objective
• Municipality better prepared for REDD+
Is this sufficient to maintain forests standing in the region?

8. Thank you!
Renato Farias
renato.farias@icv.org.br