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Session 5: Environmental, Social and Governance standards and Monitoring for FLR investments
1. Unleashing Business Opportunities for Sustainable Landscapes
Forest& LandscapeInvestmentForum
Session5:
Environmental, Social
and Governance
(ESG) standards and
monitoring for
Responsible FLR
investments
2. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Session 5: Environmental, Social and Governance standards and
Monitoring for FLR investments
Time Content Speakers
11:30 Introduction
Facilitator: Dow Maneerattana, World Resource
Institute (WRI)
11:35
FLR & Integrated Water ResourceManagement: vision of the
Water for Growth Programme in Rwanda
Ebel Smidt, Water for Growth Rwanda
11:45
Contributions of FLR to an Inclusive Green Economy : lessons
learned from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda
Daniel Ogbonnaya,Global Green Growth
Institute (GGGI)
11:55
Benefits of FLR and sustainable agriculture: examples from
certified coffee
Jean-Marie Irakabaho, Rainforest Alliance
12:05
Monitoring for FLR: good practices and roadmap for
integrating ESG perspectives
Facilitator: Dow Maneerattana, World Resource
Institute (WRI)
12:15
The LDN Target Setting Programme: a driver for sustainable
FLR investments
Ludwig Liagre, Global Mechanism - United
Nations to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
12:25
Q & A
Facilitated discussion on the integration of ESG standardsin
Facilitator: Dow Maneerattana, World Resource
Institute (WRI)
3. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Session Objectives
▪ Highlighting the multiple positive impact of forest and
landscape restoration on the environment, people
and governance infrastructure
▪ Increasing understanding of how to capture benefits
and new, innovative ways to quantify the return on
investments.
4. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Restoration Goal Wheel
Source: FAO Guidanceon
Monitoring Forest and LandscapeRestorationat National and
LandscapeScale
▪ Restoration is conducted for various
goals.
▪ Example: If your restoration goal was
primarily focused on Products, Water
and Soil, this selection strategy could
quickly identify the need for more
integrated management (i.e., more
focus needed on biodiversity within
the project).
5. Water for Growth Rwanda
Catchment Governance
17th of May 2017
FLIF: session 5 ESG Standards and Monitoring
7. Rwanda water facts
• Rain: 27.5 billion m3/yr (2.200 m3/yr/cap)
• Available water ca. 670 m3/yr/cap: water
scarcity country
• Technically feasible: 10% more water
available in 10 years: just enough to
balance population increase. Climate
change not yet taken into account. More
investments required for sustainable
development of catchments /watersheds /
landscapes to improve water productivity
8. Catchment planning means cooperation – Joint
Imihigo’s – realization of resolution of Government
Retreat February 2017
12. Catchment Committee and Office Tasks
1. Improvement of Catchment Plans: advisory and/or decision making role
2. Disseminate IWRM/FLR thinking and successful practices for replication
3. Be a linking pin between sector ministries and local partners
4. Support Districts in translating the Catchment Plan into District Plans and
monitor its implementation
5. Provide technical inputs to the Catchment committee and the District
Committees for Hydrographic Basin, including capacity building support
6. Support the districts in organizing stakeholder participation
7. Develop into a resource and information centre for the districts and the
public
8. Represent IWRM Department at Rwanda Water and Forestry Authority
9. Support the decentralized activities of the IWRMD (water licensing and
permits and water resources monitoring)
15. GGGI Sustainable Landscapes
Presentation at the Forest & Landscape
Investment Forum
May 17 2017 – Kigali Marriot Hotel
Okey Daniel Ogbonnaya – Lead, Rwanda
Country Program
16. 16
Content
1. GGGI Mission and Service Offerings
2. Sustainable Landscape – Systemic Approach
3. What are the priority sub-themes?
4. Examples:
GGGI Ethiopia
GGGI Indonesia
GGGI Costa Rica
GGGI Colombia
17. 1. GGGI Mission
• “To help developing country governments
transition towards a model of economic growth
that is environmentally sustainable and socially
inclusive.”
17
18. ENABLING:
POLICY AND
FINANCIAL
INSTRUMENTSDesign instruments (incl.
results based payments and
policy reforms) to mobilize
finance to SL bankable
projects with impacts at
jurisdictional scale, reducing
risks to investors, advancing
markets and trade at at scale,
and ensuring SMEs, farmers /
communities have access to
finance
ENABLING:
NATIONAL
FINANCING VEHICLES
Design national financing
vehicles to support SMEs,
farmers / communities to
access climate and other
sources of finance towards SL
projects and programs
Development,
economic growth
and sustainability
diagnosis
Sectoral green
impact
assessment
and
prioritization
Macro
economic
impact
assessment
Policy and
institutions
analysis
Analysis of
costs and
investment
requirements
Development of
sectoral/sub-
sectoral
investment plans
and selection
Design:
Project and
policy
preparation
Financing:
Identification
of possible
financial
structure
Implementation
Diagnosis Green impact assessment Sector/Sub-sector strategy & planning Design, financing & implementation
GGGI Value Chain
BANKABLE
PROJECTS
Develop projects that are
bankable and simultaneously
meet NDC targets, SDGs and
national priorities
2
PLANNING:
MAINSTREAMING
Mainstreaming SL programs
and projects into
province/state wide
development and investment
plans to build investor
confidence
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND CAPACITY BUILDING
2. Sustainable Landscapes: systematic approach
19. Example
• In Indonesia,REDD+prioritiesand objectivesmainstreamed into provincial and districtplansin EastKalimantan (EK) andCentral Kalimantan(CK)— supported by budget
allocations of nearly5MUSD by districtgovernments
• In Ethiopia,GGGI hasbeen supportingthedevelopmentof Ethiopia’sREDD+programsince2014,by supportingthedevelopmentof Ethiopia’sREDD+strategy (readiness),
preparationof REDD+Investmentproposal valued atUSD 80Mto beprovided by Norway.
PLANNING: Green growth (including REDD+) recommendations are developed with relevant authorities for incorporation into
national, sectoral, provincial, and district-level development plans
Example
• In Indonesia,GGGIsupported thedevelopmentof theProjectIdeaNotefor the WorldBank ForestCarbonPartnership Facility (FCPF),under theplanned Carbon Fund
provincial pilotprogramin EastKalimantan. NowGGGIcontinuesto supportthedesign processof theFCPF ProjectDocumentwhichaimsto enabletheprovinceto
receiveREDD+paymentfor performancefromtheWorldBank CarbonFund.
• In Colombia,GGGIsupportstheJointDeclaration of Intent(DoI)between theGoC and theGovernmentof Norway (GoN),forwhichthefund will bechanneledthrough
the Inter-American DevelopmentBank´s(IDB) SustainableColombiaFundwhichtotalsup to approx.USD 186M(USD 40MforModality I:Policy Design and
ImplementationandUSD 146MforModality II:Verified Emission Reductions).
• In Costa Rica,GGGI helpsgovernmentredesign andscaleup theirEnvironmental Bank Foundation (FUNBAM) asa specialized financingentity for sustainable
development(i.e.FUNBAM2.0),capableof managingprojects,makinginvestments,and designinginnovativefinancial mechanisms.
ENABLING: Policy instruments are designed to reduce risks and enable better investment-related decision making and performance
monitoring of forest and land based mitigations
BANKABLE PROJECTS: Sustainable forest, agroforestry and agribusiness opportunities are identified, structured, submitted for
funding, and guided during implementation.
Example
• In Indonesia,threeconcepts arebeingdeveloped:improved technologyandpracticesin palmoil valuechain,peatlandcommodities andrestoration,ForestManagement
Units (FMU) integrated businessmodel withmultiplebusinessopportunities.
• In Colombia,GGGIwill contributeto thedevelopmentof SustainableCattleRanching,oneofGoC’s63policy milestonesoutlined intheDoI.
Sustainable Landscapes: Systematic approach – contd.
20. 20
3. Sustainable Landscapes: Priority sub-themes
• “Mainstreaming green growth in a landscape level planning process”
• “Reduced deforestation and forest degradation through forest-based economies”,
contributingto climate change mitigation, adaptation and livelihoodof local communities (e.g.
REDD+) – Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia
• “Innovation through bio-economy”to meet food security and development goals in an
environmentallysustainable andsociallyinclusive manner (e.g. climate-smartagriculture) –
Food security African countries and MENA (potential pipeline project)
• “Payment for ecosystem services” by identifyingpolicy/regulatoryandmarket-based
solutions for conservingor restoringecosystems (e.g. Results based payment schemes, PES
scheme) – Costa Rica
Reduced
deforestation/ forest
degradation
Payment for
Ecosystem Services
(PES)
Bio-economyMainstreaming green
growth in planning
21. Example Ethiopia
• Transformation of the agriculture and forestry sectors to achieve
Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) goals
Program Overview
Impact on the
Ground• National Green Growth Strategy: supported development of Climate Resilience
Strategy focusing on the agriculture (crop and livestock) and forestry sectors
• Bonn Challenge: supported the development of the National Restoration Priority Map to
implement Ethiopia’s pledge to restore 15 million hectares of land by 2030
• Forestry and REDD+: contributed to the development of national REDD+ strategy; as a
result, the Government of Norway committed USD 80 million marking the completion of
readiness activities.
• Agriculture: supported the development of the Livestock Investment Plan. The plan will
be fed into the Livestock Master Plan to be implemented by the Government of Ethiopia,
in alignment with the country’s CRGE goals.
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Example Indonesia
4 bankable projects investment ready
(by 2019)
• 3 in design stage:
• Integrated peatlands business
model with multiple business
opportunities
• Integrated Forest Management
Unit with multiple business
opportunities
• Smallholder Sustainable PalmOil
value chain
BANKABLE
PROJECTS
ENABLING:
POLICY AND
FINANCIAL
INSTRUMENTS
Investment planning for financial instrument (REDD+
results based payments) to ensure financial flowresults
in jurisdiction wideimpact of forest-basedemission
reductions and secure access to finance to
SMEs/cooperatives, farmers / communities
Support (fiscal) policy&incentive reform at national
level specific to selectedproducts reducing risks to
investors, advancing markets and sustainable trade
opportunities
PLANNING:
MAINSTREAMING
Mainstreaming targeted
commodities tested as
bankable projects in the right
side of value chain and its
relevant green growth
outcomes more broadly into
province/state wide
development and investment
plans to build investor
confidence
WPB Indonesia Output3.3WPB Indonesia Output2.3WPB Indonesia Output1.3
Support provincial/district wide policy reform
specific to selected productsreducing risks to investors,
advancing markets and sustainable trade opportunities
Outcomes:
1. Capable institutions scale up green growth;
2. Increased inclusive green investment in priority sectors leads to reduced emissions and healthier,
more productive ecosystems
Current and next steps:
FCPF Project Document to enable one province to
receive REDD+payment for performance fromthe World
Bank Carbon Fund if forest based emissions are reduced
across the province
23. Example Costa Rica
• GGGI is supporting to scale up of Environmental Bank Foundation (FUNBAM),
which is expected to act as the financing entity for sustainable development across the
country (i.e. FUNBAM 2.0).
• GGGI implemented a series of South-South Cooperation knowledge sharing
activities in Costa Rica in 2015/16 on the topic of sustainable land-use management.
• GGGI developed a policy analysis report benefitted from Costa Rica’s leadership
position on PES program and lessons learned
Program
Overview
Impact on the Ground
• Aims to mobilize USD 10M by 2021 through
FUNBAM. FUNBAM 2.0 will contribute to Costa
Rica's NDC targets by channeling capital towards
agro-forestry industries, forest conservation,
ecosystem-based adaptation, etc.
• Aims to implement 5 bankable projects by 2021
through FUNBAM. FUNBAM 2.0 will contribute to
the empowerment of farmers and entrepreneurs in
green growth sectors in Costa Rica to ensure their
sustainable livelihoods and better standard of living.
24. Example Colombia
• GGGI is supporting the Government of Colombia (GoC) to receive
international financing for the Amazon Vision program
• GGGI is also supporting the Joint Declaration of Intent (DoI) between the GoC and the
Government of Norway (GoN), for which the fund will be channeled through the Inter-
American Development Bank´s (IDB) Sustainable Colombia Fund.
• In support of the above, GGGI will contribute to the development of policy recommendations
and technical design elements for Sustainable Cattle Ranching, one of GoC’s 63 policy
milestones outlined in the DoI.
Program Overview
Impact on the
Ground• In 2016, GGGI contributed to the design and launch of the Amazon Vision program.
1) A financing vehicle for the Amazon Vision program was set up, and is now in operation.
2) Financial commitments increased from USD 100 to 125 million.
• Starting 2017, GGGI will support the DoI between the GoC and GoN by contributing to:
1) Modality I – Achieving at least 50% of policy-based results
2) Modality I – Establishing enabling conditions for Sustainable Cattle Ranching
3) Modality II – The operation of a new financing vehicle (FCS)
4) Modality II – Disbursement of at least USD 10 million through the FCS
5) Modality II - Structuring of 1 bankable project to be funded by FCS
26. Photo: Noah Jackson
The Rainforest Alliance
Presentationto RegionalFLIF
Kigali, May 2017
Protecting People and the Planet
May 17, 2017 By Mr. Jean-Marie IRAKABAHO
Rainforest Alliance Program Coordinator in Rwanda
Email address: jmirakabaho@gmail.com
Cell phone: +250-78-830-3676
27. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 27
Forests are the Foundation
Forests breathe for our planet,
absorbing carbon dioxide and providing
oxygen, our most basic resource.
But that’s just the beginning…
28. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 28
Strong Forests, Healthy Communities
Forests support life by:
• Protecting our waterways
• Preventing soil erosion & flooding
• Keeping soils healthy & productive
• Absorbing carbon dioxide
• Stabilizing the global climate
Forests absorb nearly 40% of manmade fossil-fuelemissionsannually.
29. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 29
Strong Forests, Healthy Communities
Resources
13 million people formally
employed in the forestry
industry
Covering a third of the Earth’s land area, forests provide:
IncomeHabitat
1.6 billion rely on food,
shelter, medicine & other
forest benefits
Home to 70% of the
world's terrestrial
species
30. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 30
A World Out of Balance
More than 123 million acres of
tropical forests destroyedin 12
years (2000 – 2012)
Forestland destroyed is more
than four times the stateof
Pennsylvania
17 acres per minute
Forests provide so much, but their resources aren’t infinite.
31. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 31
A World Out of Balance
85% of the global population lives in
the driest half of the planet
783 millionlive without a clean water
supply
Nearly 2.5 billionhave no access to
proper sanitation
32. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 32
A World Out of Balance
70% of the world’s freshwater is used
for farming
By 2050, population growth and
changing diets are expected to drive a
70% increasein food demand
1.3 billiontons of food is wasted,a
third of what’s produced for humans
1 billionpeople suffer from hunger
33. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 33
There’s A Better Way
To conserveforests…
The Rainforest Alliance takes a comprehensive approach to
rebalancing our world:
we address the economiccauses
we supportforest communities
we conservenatural resources
at the source
To foster sustainablelivelihoods…
To safeguardpeople& wildlife…
34. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 34
Our Approach: A True Alliance
Work collaboratively + apply local knowledge + act regionally = GLOBAL IMPACT
Forest
Communities
Farmers Companies
Tourism Operators
International
NGOs &
Foundations
Local NGOs
Governments Foresters
Scientists &
Policy Experts
35. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 35
Forestry
The Power of Partnership
With our global partners, we pioneered the concept of certification:
Developed 1st global forestry
certification
Co-founded FSC (Forest
Stewardship Council),
world’s most respected
forestry standard
36. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 36
Agriculture
The Power of Partnership
With our global partners, we pioneered the concept of certification:
Developed Rainforest
Alliance farm certification
Co-founded SAN
(Sustainable Agriculture
Network)
38. 6/14/2017 RAINFOREST-ALLIANCE.ORG 38
Voices from the Field
“Certification presented an opportunity
for farmers to come together, to sit and
talk about things, and share knowledge.”
G I L B E R T G A T A L I
Owner of KZ Noir coffee in Rwanda
40. Quantifying Restoration
Benefits for FLR
Planning and
Investment in Rwanda
Prepared for Forest and Landscape
Restoration Investment Forum
16-17 May 2017
Dow Maneerattana, Monitoring Restoration
in Rwanda
41. Sources: Global Forest Watch, FAO at World Soil Day, and Sabogal, C. Besacier, C., McGuire.,
D. 2015. Forest and landscape restoration: concepts, approaches and challenges for
implementation; Unasylva 66 2015/3; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO)
42. Rwanda is addressing land
degradation and forest and
biodiversity loss by committing
to RESTORE 2 MILLION HA
AFR100 and Bonn Challenge
Targets
Rwanda Vision 2020 target to
increase forest cover to 30%
Rwanda mapped opportunity areas in 2014 WHAT WE DID
43. 1. May – December 2016 Piloted cost and time saving
data collection tools like Collect Earth and mobile
apps.
Collect Earth is a free, open source software that
makes high resolution satellite image (from 30
meters to 1 meters) available for visual
interpretation. Extension officers can easily and
consistently document changes in vegetation and
land cover—tree count and cover.
Mobile apps like ODK, Survey CTO and Taroworks.
3 WAYS WE ARE INNOVATING
44.
45. We are now in discussions to:
2. Increase the speed of information sharing through
Application program interface (APIs) to integrate data
from other agencies;
Common metadata across relevant agencies; and
Global and other quality data sources.
3. Deliver messages to the audience
Through a flexible online platform and mobile tools
Audio or video messages
46. HOW INNOVATIONS ADD VALUE TO FLR MOVEMENTMAP – Understocked Sectors in Gatsibo District
(1) Identify
opportunities for
restoration in a shorter
time
47. Gatsibo Tree Cover Target for 2018 (30%)
(2) Cost-effectively
quantify environmental
and socio-economic
benefits of restoration
over time
NISR -- INTEGRATED LIVING CONDITIONS HH SURVEY
48. FOREST MONITORING AND
EVALUATION SYSTEM
STATISTICS
LAND
DISTRICT
FOREST
AGRI
(3) Shift the paradigm of
forest and landscape
planning and
management
49. TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATIONS
People around
the world want to
support
restoration
activities on the
ground
Farmers and farmer
coops in Rwanda
want to restore
land, but often lack
financial resources
to do it.
CROWDFUNDING ONLINE
PLATFORM
All we need now are:
Farmer coops with a
restoration plan
People who want to
invest in improving the
environment and the lives
of Rwandans
50. 17/05/2017, FLIF, Kigali, Rwanda
Ludwig Liagre, lliagre@unccd.int
Land Degradation
Neutrality (LDN): a
driver for
sustainable FLR
investments
51. Date
Title of
Presentation
Land Degradation Neutrality : SDG 15.3
SDG 15 “to protect, restore and promote sustainable use
of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests,
combat desertification, and halt and reverse land
degradation and halt biodiversity loss”
Target 15.3 - “By 2030, combat desertification, restore
degraded land and soil, including land affected by
desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a
land degradation-neutral world”
Indicator 15.3.1 - “Proportion of land that is degraded
over total land area”
53. Date
Title of
Presentation
LDN target setting process : +108 countries
10 Steps that provide operational guidance on how to define national LDN
baselines and to identify voluntary LDN targets and associated measures
• Step 1: Government leadership and stakeholder engagement – creating
leverage
• Step 2: Setting the LDN baseline
• Step 3 + 4: Assessing trends and driversof land degradation
• Step 5: Defining national voluntary LDN targets
• Step 6: Mainstreaming LDN in land use planning
• Step 7: Identifying measures to achieve LDN targets
• Step 8: Facilitating action towards LDN – Policies and transformative projects
• Step 9 + 10: Monitoring and reporting on LDN
55. Date
Title of
Presentation
E&S impacts of LDN investments
Materialsprovidedbylands
• Food
• Timber
• Otherraw materials
Contributingtobiodiversity
• Habitatforspecies
• Maintenance of genetic
diversity
Ecosystemsas
regulators
• Carbonsequestration
and storage
• Waste-watertreatment
• Erosionprevention
• Local climate andairquality
Ecosystem
services
A qualitative analysis of ecosystem services
enhanced compared to a baseline scenario…
Recreative andspiritual
experiences
• Mental andphysical health
• Aestheticappreciation,
inspiration
• Spiritual experience
and sense of place
• Tourism
• Land cover/land cover change
• Land productivity
• Carbon stock
(country level reporting framework currently being
developed by the UNCCD Science Policy
Interface)
… with a focus on potential quantitative
impact on key metrics, defined in line with the
main indicator for SDG 15.3, ‘Proportion of
land that is degraded over total land area’, with
degradation measured by three official KPIs:
E&S Standards
Based on internationally recognized standards:
based for the most part on the International Finance Corporation (IFC)’s Performance Standards,
with some reinforced language on some topics (e.g. indigenous peoples, biodiversity) based on other
international practices (FAO’s, EIB’s standards)
and with the addition of a dedicated standard on land tenure (based on the Voluntary Guidelines on the
Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT), and UNDP and FAO’s Social and Environmental Standards)
58. Date
UNCCD and land degradation
Challenges
Estimates indicate that up to 25% of all land is currently highly degraded, 36% is
slightly or moderately degraded but in stable condition, while only 10% is improving
(Source: The State of the World’sLand and Water Resources for Food
and Agriculture – Managing systems at risk. FAO, 2011)
59. Date
Title of
Presentation
UNCCD COP.12
▪ Endorsed target 15.3. and LDN as strong vehicle for
driving the implementation of the Convention
▪ Invited all country Parties to “formulate voluntary targets to
achieve LDN” and to incorporate them in UNCCD NAPs
COP 12 also:
▪ Requested UNCCD bodies to:
- provide guidance for formulating national LDN targets
- facilitate the use of UNCCD indicator frameworks to monitor LDN targets
▪ Decided that affected country Parties should provide feedback on the
default data and the proposed methodology to formulate national
voluntary LDN targets
60. Date
LDN Conceptual Framework
Neutrality = “no net loss” (at least)
Requires: balance between losses and
gains
In terms of land degradation:
Counterbalance
ongoing land degradation (loss)
with restoration of degraded
land (gain)
LDN aims to maintain or enhance the land based natural
capital and associated ecosystem functions and services
61. Date
Title of
Presentation
Making informed
decisions on what
action to take by
assessing the
current state of
land and its
drivers of
degradation
Define country’s
ambitions in
terms of
combatting land
degradation by
defining LDN
targets and
measures
Create an
enabling
environment by
integrating LDN
into national
policies and
identifying
transformative
LDN programmes
and projects
Engage decision
makers and
stakeholders
involved in land
management
62. Date
Title of
Presentation
Status of LDN TSP
• 108 participating countries
• Multi-partner initiative established
• Financial support by France, Germany, the Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Spain,
Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, GEF/IUCN, GEF/UNEP, UNDP
• Wide range of technical partners (e.g. ESA, JRC, ISRIC)
• Key documents/frameworksprepared (e.g. draft technical guide, leverage plan,
monitoring & evaluation system)
• 4 regional inception workshopsorganized for Regional Implementation Annexes I,
II, III, IV and V
• Familiarize participating countries with the LDN target setting process
• Identify opportunities for leverage
• Create a mutual understanding of the LDN target setting process
• Objective: Countries enabled to establish national LDN targets
64. Date
LDN corrective measures
Technical measures: Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
Usually address the direct drivers of land degradation, such as:
Source: WOCAT