2010 Katoomba XVII Meeting - Taking the Lead: Payments for Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia (Hanoi, Vietnam)

8:00—9:00am

REGISTRATION

9:00—10:00am

WELCOME & CONFERENCE OPENING

• Nguyen Thien Nhan, Deputy Prime Minister, Vietnam   

• Cao Duc Phat, Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) 

• Stale Torstein Risa, Ambassador to Vietnam and Laos, Embassy of Norway 

• Virginia Palmer, Deputy Mission Chief, USAID Vietnam 

• Michael Jenkins, President, Forest Trends 

10:00—11:00am

PRESS CONFERENCE & COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

11:00—11:30am

KEYNOTE INTRODUCTION: CLIMATE AND LANDUSE LOOKING FORWARD

• Vietnamese National Programs on Climate Change  - Nguyen Khac Hieu, Vice Director General, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Government of Vietnam 

11:30 –12:30pm

STATE OF EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETS

• Overview of Markets for Environmental Services  - Kate Hamilton, Director, Ecosystem Marketplace, Forest Trends

• Payments for Ecosystem Services as Financial Vehicles for Biodiversity Conservation, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Poverty Reduction and Rural Development - James Peters, Chief Technical Advisor, Asian Development Bank EOC

• Role of Multilaterals in Forest and Ecosystem Investments  - Richard Caines, Principal Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Environment and Social Development Department, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

12:30—1:30pm

LUNCH

1:30—3:00pm

FOREST CARBON AND REDD ARCHITECTURE

Post Copenhagen is a period of “interim financing” and the challenges of ensuring that investments flow efficiently to produce mechanisms for carbon emissions reductions, accountability, and equitable benefits distributions

• UN REDD Program  - Tim Boyle, Asia Regional Coordinator, UNREDD

• Voices from the Markets: Panel Discussion - chaired by Michael Jenkins, President, Forest Trends

• Comparative Analysis: Policy and Implementation, Approaches across Southeast Asia Region  - Kurt McLeod, Vice President, Asia and Eurasia, PACT

• Experiences from Aceh Province, Indonesia  - Mr. Yakob Ishdamy, Head of Aceh Green Secretariat, Aceh Province, Indonesia 

• PNG Forest Authority Perspective  - Goodwill Amos, Forest Authority, Papua New Guinea

• Designing National REDD Programs from the Bottom-Up  - Eveline Trines, Silvestrum

3:00—3:30pm

COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

3:30—4:00pm

KEY NOTE SPEECHES: VOICES FROM THE MARKETS

Enabling policy environments which encourage public-private investment partnerships, catalyzing flows of private capital into local climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives

Moderator: Michael Jenkins, Forest Trends

• Public-Private Investment Partnerships  - David Brand, Managing Director, New Forests Pty Limited

• How Payments for Carbon Sequestration Create New Forests of High Biodiversity and Social Wellfare in Vietnam  - Dirk Walterspacher, Forest Finance Group

4:00—4:30pm

COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

4:30—5:30pm

PROJECTS, PRODUCTS AND MEASUREMENT REPORTING AND VERIFICATION (MRV) STRATEGIES

Identifying key roadblocks, priority action areas and research/capacity building needs, and generating a provisional road-map to measuring carbon

• REDD Carbon Measurement, National Inventories, Nested and Sectoral Approaches  - Joerg Seifert-Granzin, Forest Carbon Consultant, Forest Trends

• How Projects Measure Up: Key Successes of REDD+ Projects and Lessons Learned for Design and Evaluation of REDD+ Activities  - Adam Gibbon, Climate Initiative Technical Specialist, Rainforest Alliance

• Regional REDD, Governance and Leakage Issues  - Gary Bull, Professor, University of British Columbia

5:30—6:30pm

OPEN FORUM

6:30—9:00pm

DINNER AND COCKTAIL RECEPTION

7:15—9:00pm

OPTIONAL SIDE PANEL AND INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION:

Demystifying the Verification Process. The panelists, who each have experience with a different aspect of forest carbon project validation or verification, will share their perspectives on standards, preparing for an audit, the audit process and how to share the results of your verification/validation. The session aims to create a dialogue for maximal exchange.

Moderator: Adam Gibbon, Rainforest Alliance

• Overview of the Validation and Verification Process for Voluntary Standards - Indu Sapkota, Forest Management and Verification Services Coordinator, Rainforest Alliance Asia Pacific

• Experiences with the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) - Eveline Trines, Silvestrum

• Climate Community and Biodiversity Standard (CCBS) Validation of the Philippines Penablanca Sustainable Reforestation Project - Yoji Natori, Conservation International

• Experiences with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) - Phuong Vu Tan, Director, Research Centre for Forest Ecology and Government

8:45—9:00am

WELCOME & RECAP OF DAY 1

• Kerstin Canby, Director, Forest Trade and Finance, Forest Trends

9:00—10:30am

THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE

• Vietnam’s Pilot Policy for Forest Ecosystem Services (PFES): Government Perspective -  Nguyen Tuan Phú, Office of the Government and Pham Xuan Phuong, Legal Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam

• Contributions of Winrock International and GTZ to the Formulation and Implementation of Policy on Payment for Forest Environmental Services in Viet Nam - Nguyen Chi Thanh, Senior Policy Advisor, Winrock International, Vietnam; Juergen Hess, GTZ Vietnam

• Experience with REDD Pilot Projects in Vietnam - Pham Minh Thao, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

• Experience with REDD Pilot Projects in Vietnam  - Richard McNally, SNV and REDD working group in Vietnam

• Forest law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade (FLEGT), and Potential Implications of REDD for Local People: Impacts of Small-Scaled Illegal Logging Operation  - Rene Boot, Tropenbos International

10:30—11:00am

COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

11:00—12:00pm

PAYMENTS FOR WATERSHED ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Understanding how to maximize ability of market mechanisms to increase watershed services while also providing incentives for improved land use in catchment areas

• Overview of China’s Eco-Compensation Programs  - Jin Leshan, China Agricultural University 

• Lessons Learned Facilitating Linkages between ES Providers and Sellers  -  Dr. Delia Catacutan, ICRAF/RUPES

• Emerging Markets and Market-like Approaches to Watershed Quality  - Mark Kieser, Senior Scientist, Kieser & Associates

12:00—1:00pm

LUNCH

1:00—2:00pm

BIODIVERSITY MARKETS AND MARKET-LIKE INSTRUMENTS

How to get beyond public finance for biodiversity conservation and how markets can be used to achieve more and better cost effective conservation outcomes from infrastructure development.

• State of Biodiversity Offsets and Biodiversity Market Instruments  - Kerry ten Kate, Director, Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP), Forest Trends

• REDD+ And Biodiversity Conservation  - Terry Sunderland, Forests and Livelihoods Programme, CIFOR 

• Basics of Biodiversity Offsets and Conservation Banking: Lessons from the State of Victoria and Ideas for the South-East Asia Region  - Michael Crowe, Government of Victoria, Australia

2:00—3:30pm

COASTAL AND MARINE MARKETS (INCLUDING MANGROVE ECOSYSTEMS)

Payments for ecosystem services and other innovative mechanisms for marine and coastal conservation

• Marine Conservation Agreements as a Way to Implement PES  - Rili Djohani, Director, Government and Partner Relations, TNC Indonesia

• Coastal Community Livelihoods Implication to Intact Ecosystem Services  - Don Macintosh, Director, Mangroves for the Future

• The Mangroves for the Trees: The Under-Appreciated Potential of Mangroves for Carbon and Climate Change Management  - Dan Donato, US Forest Service

• Effective Mangrove Conservation Through Co-management  - Klaus Schmitt, Chief Technical Advisory, Management of Natural Resource in the Coastal Zone of Soc Trang Province, GTZ Vietnam

• Value of Biodiversity for Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Functions - Winnie Lau, Program Manager, Marine Ecosystem Services Program

3:30—4:00pm

COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

4:00—5:00pm

BENEFITS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

Meeting expectations for equity, transparency, additionality and performance while managing PES revenues in an effective and efficient manner

• Benefit Distribution System for Vietnam and Lessons Learned from Past or Current Forest Programs with Benefits for Local Stakeholders  - Pham Manh Cuong, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam

• Experience with Benefits Sharing Under the Developing Eco-Compensation Policy Framework Developing in China  - Dr. Cai Bofeng, Professor, Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, China

• Villages and REDD+: Issues of Local Peoples  - John Kuange, WCS Papua New Guinea

5:00—6:00pm

COMBINING MULTIPLE PES MARKETS: STACKING AND BUNDLING

Designing markets which integrate ecological values while also allowing landholders to tap multiple sources of potential revenue

• Experience in the Region and Beyond  - Tom Clements, Technical Advisor, Wildlife Conservation Society

• Bundling in the Miyun Reservoir, China  - Wang Xiaoping, Beijing Forestry and Parks Department, China

• Cambodia: Oddar Meanchey REDD Project: Community Bundling Approach Connecting Small CFM Areas - Chhun Delux, Senior Carbon Officer, PACT Cambodia

6:00—6:30pm

CLOSING

6:30—7:30pm

DINNER