The document discusses challenges and opportunities for balancing carbon, biodiversity, and community approaches within REDD+ programs. It outlines tensions between priorities and proposes enabling a balanced approach through clarifying rights, building frameworks, legal reform, tailored local approaches, and streamlining standards while raising finance. The overall goal is to turn REDD+ into investments that benefit landscapes and communities through "greening" the process.

1. Turning REDD+ around: breaking
boundaries and bridging divisions
Working towards a balanced climate,
biodiversity and community
approach
Jan Willem den Besten, IUCN NL
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

2. This Presentation
1) IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands
2) Our partners in the REDD+ space
3) Challenges
4) Turning REDD+ around
5) Enabling a blanced approach to REDD+
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

3. Work by IUCN Committee of
The Netherlands
-> Platform for 38 Dutch members of IUCN
-> Financing projects in the South
-> Private Sector and Leaders for Nature
-> Influencing policy
-> Trade and production chains
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

4. Partners and REDD+
Where do we find ourselves
and what investments are
most suitable?
Forest Governance
Project Registration Issuing
Consultations
development Validation verified
Capacity building
Quantifying Certification credits
FPIC
Carbon
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

5. Challenges
• Technology - heavy
• Seizure of organisations’ resources
• Challenge of organisations’ capacities
• Complicated registry issues
• Long-term financial uncertainty
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

6. Basic Tensions
• Carbon or biodiversity?
• People as drivers of deforestation or drivers of
change?
• International efforts and standardizing,
national sovereignty or empowering local
actors?
• Funds or markets?
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

7. Turning REDD+ Around
• REDD+ as Investments in landscapes
• REDD+ as seed money for communities
• Aspirational, enabling safeguards to ‘do good’
• Aligning REDD+ and Agriculture
• Focus on drivers of deforestation
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

8. Balance carbon, biodiversity
and communities
• Greening REDD+: prioritize biodiversity
• Balancing carbon with community
engagement
• Implementing the UNFCCC safeguards
• Stacking income streams: REDD+, PES, NTFPs,
sustainable agro forestry, bio-rights and micro
finance
• Broad set of landscapes: mangroves, peatland
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

9. Enabling a balanced
approach
• Clarification of rights and small holder access
• Building national REDD+ frameworks
• Legal frameworks and legislative reform
• Tailor to regional and locality specific situations
• NAMAS and sectoral approaches to tackle drivers
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

10. Enabling a balanced
approach
• Jurisdictional and nested approaches
• Streamline standards
• FPIC, customary mapping
• Upfront, dedicated finance
• Raising private and public finance
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012

11. Finally….
• Political Will
• Champions
• Public support
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12. Thanks
IUCN Netherlands Committee Doha, 6 December 2012