REDD+ and Green Economy

1. PRESENTED BY:
ANAM WAHEED
AYESHA ABDUL REHMAN
SUMERA SALEEM
REDD+ AND GREEN
ECONOMY

2. What is REDD+?

3. From UN-REDD website:
 “REDD is a mechanism to create an incentive for developing
countries to protect, better manage and wisely use their
forest resources, contributing to the global fight against
climate change. REDD strategies aim to make forests more
valuable standing than they would be cut down, by creating
a financial value for the carbon stored in trees. Once this
carbon is assessed and quantified, the final phase of REDD
involves developed countries paying developing countries
carbon offsets for their standing forests. REDD is a cutting-
edge forestry initiative that aims at tipping the economic
balance in favors of sustainable management of forests so
that their formidable economic, environmental and social
goods and services benefit countries, communities,
biodiversity and forest users while also contributing to
important reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.”

4. Background of REDD+
 In 2005 the REDD+ Plan (Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation/ sustainable
forest management and enhancement of forest
carbon stocks) was shaped within the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change. This
Plan is one of the most significant international tools
for climate change mitigation.

5. REDD+ purposes to grow a set of plans and
programs
 Point out the causes of forest degradation/
deforestation.
 Encourage social and economic growth, and promote
the maintenance and the maintainable management
of natural means and to grow carbon stocks.
 Decreasing emissions from forest degradation and
deforestation
 Sustainable controlling of forests.
 Improvement of forest carbon sinks

6. Difficulties with REDD+:
 Forests being basins for CO2 is scientifically imprecise.
 Trees absolutely absorb Carbon dioxide still they are only
short-term holders of it.
 It would proceeds a very long time to re-grow wholly
forests.
 It impartially gives some countries or contaminators
which have cash to pay for carbon credits (balances) an
reason or “justification” to carry on polluting.
 Native individuals who live in forests, indigenous
leaders, representatives, overseas companies interested
in natural capitals or native businesses might all have
clashes of interest

7. Difficulties with REDD+:

8. Market-based solutions:

9. Market-based solutions:

10. Market-based solutions:

11. Green Economy:
 Green economy means a sustainable society and
economy with no carbon emissions and a
globe where all energy is resulting from renewable
sources which are naturally replaced. A green
economy strictly relates the triple bottom line of
individual planet and earnings across all firms at the
microeconomic and all over the whole economy at
the macroeconomic level.

12. Green Economy:

13. REDD+ and Green Economy:

15. REDD+ and Green Economy:
 Basically REDD+, is investment concentrating on
enhancing natural resources, and offers chance to allow
states to travel towards recognizing green development.
 The predictable effects of a natural capital managed
investment plan, of which REDD+ is also be a member, and
primarily a catalyst.
 Shifting stress from physical to natural center, REDD+
investment situation is new to bring better and long-
lasting outcomes for growth, equity and jobs as a whole
 Most emerging states reasonably view the utilization of their
natural capital as a pathway to progress
 REDD+ is a worldwide effort to therapy ‘market failure’ in
addition to the assistances of forest degradation and
deforestation to climate modification.

16. REDD+ and Green Economy:
 Extra ecosystem facilities, in addition to avoiding radiations
or restoring carbon, would supply an economic worth for
provisioning, traditional or adaptable service.
 REDD+ funds can leveraged to bring other monies that can
bring or recognize economic worth from these additional
ecosystem facilities.
 They support maintaining the forests while given that a stable
income cause that would inspire additional sponsoring.
 Thus REDD+ would transport not only straight monies in
forests but it also support to inferior thresholds for more
investments into ecosystem facilities and the maintenance of
biodiversity.

17. Plans:
 Increase community awareness and create the circumstance
for the commonly helpful relationship between Green
Economy and REDD+.
 Improve an investment plan to abstract development from
those segments having great employment producing potential.
 Emphasis on segments which need lesser investments for the
similar level of production. Investments that create use of
ecological substructure, rather than substituting it with
physical substructure would sort more sense.
 Progress better signs to monitor investments for green
growth. Mainstreaming the assistances of ecosystem
facilities through better signs, like ‘GDP of the Poor’, into
growth strategy and national plans would aid in scheming
more operative and efficient plans particularly in primacy
areas (e.g. poverty relief).

18. Continued…
 Improve financial movements from the private segment.
Private segment investments are compulsory to aid
modification to a green growth.
 Enlarge the opportunity of the REDD+ program. As
countries growth and develop national plan to report
drivers of forest degradation and deforestation, the
connections with the other parts and subjects within
national growth planning become obvious.
 Confirm that procedures linked to Green Economy and
REDDD+ is based on wide stakeholder discussions.

19. Implementation of REDD+ program:
 Designing REDD+
 The economic and political Implementation of
REDD+
 And last but not least access to the Impact of
REDD+

20. Implementation of REDD+ program:
 At the United Nations Conference of Development
and Environment (the Earth Summit), held in Rio de
Janeiro in 1992, the concept of SFM first time
proposed for helping the Implementation of REDD+
at ground, local, sub-national and national level.
SFM is "a dynamic and evolving concept aims to
maintain and enhance the economic, social and
environmental value of all types of forests, for the
benefit of present and future generations" [UNFF,
2007].

21. Economic and Environmental benefits of
REDD+:

22. It is helpful for human
welfare and well being.
It helps to mitigate climate
change
Economic and Environmental benefits of
REDD+:

23. REDD+ help to in soil
conservation.
It provides micro-climatic
benefits.
Economic and Environmental benefits of
REDD+:

24. It emphasis on the
conservation of forests.
It provides recreational
areas
Economic and Environmental benefits of
REDD+:

25. Forests provide
temperature cooling.
Conservation of forest
biodiversity and wildlife
habitat.
Economic and Environmental benefits of
REDD+:

26. Economic and Environmental benefits of
REDD+:
 REDD+ contribute in mitigation and adaptation for
climate change. Mitigation in the reduction of GHG
emission and adaptation in human and natural
systems.
 The large stock of forests through REDD+ provide
natural filtration of water.
 Forests also provide a mental health.
 It prevents us from floods.
 The city of population 1 million people or more is 1-3
warmer than their surroundings. REDD+ reduces
“heat island effect”.