: 27 May 2010 19:36 CET Last updated: 27 May 2010 23:21 CET
Rich countries have pledged nearly $4 billion to support measures to halt tropical deforestation.
Heads of state and government, ministers and other leaders gathered in Norway Thursday for the Oslo Climate and Forest Conference, hosted by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Developed countries pledged NOK 25 billion ($3.9 billion) to help poor countries implement measures to reduce deforestation and degradation (Redd) from 2010-2012.
Representatives of 50 developed and rainforest countries agreed on a framework for the fast implementation of Redd measures, which will contribute to global climate treaty negotiations.
Framework
The parties also agreed to include representatives of relevant stakeholders, such as indigenous peoples, in their partnership.
They also agreed that the UN and the World Bank will provide secretariat services.
“This could be an important step forward in the run-up to the climate negotiations in Mexico later this year,” said Prime Minister Stoltenberg at the conference.
Donors at the Redd conference expressed their willingness to scale up financing “substantially” after 2012 if sufficient reductions are achieved by the funded Redd measures, the Norwegian environment ministry said.
Environmental group Greenpeace applauded the financial pledges, but warned the money should not finance individual Redd projects that can earn carbon credits.
“Protection plans should also be country-wide because small individual projects can disrupt communities and merely push destructive industries to other parts of the forest,” said Susanne Breitkopf, Greenpeace International forest campaigner.
Indonesian moratorium
At the same Oslo conference today, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a two-year moratorium on issuing new logging concessions as its first step toward meeting its greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 41 per cent.
The moratorium was a condition set by Norway, who pledged to give Indonesia up to $1 billion for measures to reduce deforestation.
By Valerie Volcovici – vv@pointcarbon.com
Washington DC
Carta da Terra
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