Investor Presentaiton
Brazil's REDD+ leadership
Brazil is internationally renowned for reducing
deforestation in the Amazon in an unprecedented
scale, largely due to the im-plementation of the in-
tersectoral Action Plan to Prevent and Combat De-
forestation in the Amazon (PPCDAM) and the ana-
lo-gous state level plans. In 2008, Brazil created
the first national REDD+ finance mechanism, the
Amazon Fund, which is man-aged by the Brazilian
Development Bank BNDES.
In 2015, as the first country worldwide, Brazil
achieved full compliance with the UNFCCC requi-
rements to receive results-based payments within
the REDD+ Warsaw framework. The country counts
with an advanced forest monitoring system, has
submitted a Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL)
as well as a Safeguards Summary to the UNFCCC
and has published a na-tional REDD+ strategy. In
2016 the national REDD+ committee CONAREDD+
was instituted, with participation from govern-
-ment and civil society representatives.
Significance and outlook
Brazil is a forerunner in the international REDD+
process and has managed to significantly reduce
deforestation in the last decade. The State of Acre
is a global pioneer in forest protec-tion, with its in-
novative framework of environmental policies and
programmes geared to strengthen forest-based
livelihoods. To sustain and broaden the achieve-
ments towards low-deforestation development,
Acre's State government and the Federal Republic
of Germany forged a performance-based REDD+
agreement. At the time of its inception in 2012, this
partnership was the first of its kind, rewarding a
state jurisdic-tion for its results in reduced defores-
tation in alignment with national policies. The me-
chanism supports the institutional strengthening
of the State's Incentive System for Environmental
Services (SISA) as well as the implementation and
expansion of sub-programmes to address the dri-
vers of deforestation effec-tively and equitably.
On the international level, Acre has emerged as
an example that a number of countries and state
jurisdictions observe and have visited as they are
building up their own REDD+ systems.
The challenge for Acre, as for other state juris-
dictions in the Brazilian Amazon, will be to conso-
lidate and further continue the downward trend in
deforestation and to provide positive incentives for
this process. This becomes increasingly difficult,
as the remaining deforestation is more dispersed
among a myriad of mid- to small-scale producers,
which are more diffi-cult to monitor and to reach
with supportive measures. In this context, result-
s-based finance is a welcome additional tool for
policy makers to balance agricultural development
and income generation with the need to maintain
and restore ecosystem services that forests provide
to Acre, Brazil and the entire world, while fostering
the traditional livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples.
Reducing deforestation, while supporting live-
lihoods and low carbon rural development, is an
important element for reaching this balance, for
both Acre and its international part-ners.
Contacts:
Magaly Medeiros
Director-President, Institute of Climate Change
and Environmental Ser-vices Regulation (IMC),
Acre State Government:
Email: [email protected]
SISA webpage: http://www.imc.ac.gov.br
Dr. Christiane Ehringhaus
Coordinator, REDD Early Movers (REM)
Programme, KfW
Email: Christiane. [email protected]View entire presentation