Wednesday 10 May – Plenary Sessions

Opening Statements (9:00 – 9:15)

Workshop overview and purpose
(Bernhard Schlamadinger, Joanneum Research, Austria)
PDF-File (174 kB)

Session I - Background (9:15 – 10:45) Chairperson – Bernhard Schlamadinger (Joanneum Research)

• History of the issue under the UNFCCC, reasons for exclusion of deforestation in the past, and the changes that have occurred since Montreal (Eveline Trines, Treeness Consult, the Netherlands) PDF-File (124 kB) • Magnitude of the problem and underlying causes of deforestation, including social and economic issues (Sven Wunder, CIFOR, Brazil) PDF-File (2.85 MB) • Lessons learned from other national and international efforts to reduce deforestation (Jürgen Blaser, Intercooperation, Switzerland) PDF-File (6.7 MB)

Session II – Future policy pathways (11:15 – 12:45) Chairperson – Yoshiki Yamagata (Global Carbon Project)

• Coupled climate-carbon-human analysis (Yoshiki Yamagata, Global Carbon Project) PDF-File (357 kB) • Modelled climate change movie (Yoshiki Yamagata, Global Carbon Project) MPEG-Movie (15.29 MB) Windows-Mediaplayer or Quicktime required • The role of reducing emissions from deforestation in avoiding danger- ous climate change (Peter Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists, USA) PDF-File (1.67 MB) • Status of the “Montreal Mandate” and approaches how deforestation could be addressed within a UNFCCC or Kyoto Protocol type umbrella (Ian Noble, World Bank) PDF-File (52 kB) • Policy approaches and incentives within a country – an example from Brazil (Thelma Krug, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias, Brazil) PDF-File (1 MB)

Session III – Methodological and technical issues (13:45 – 15:15) Chairperson – Peter Frumhoff (UCS)

• Methodological Issues related to accounting of reduced emissions from deforestation (Sandra Brown, Winrock International, USA) PDF-File (1.6 MB) • Detection, monitoring and mapping of deforestation and associated emissions – a summary from GOFC-GOLD Symposium on Forest and Land Cover, Jena, March 21 2006 (Martin Herold, Jena University, Germany) ZIP-File (7.2 MB) • Costs and potentials; possible scale of supply of GHG credits from avoided deforestation; impacts on carbon prices (Brent Sohngen, Ohio State University, USA and Michael Obersteiner, IIASA, Austria) Sohngen ->PDF-File (254 kB) Obersteiner ->PDF-File (1.9 MB)

Overview of the March 31 submissions (15:45 – 17:45) The essence of the submissions will be presented, followed by a general discussion Chairperson – Claudio Forner (CIFOR)

• Latin America (Venessa Vereau, Ministry of Environment, Peru) PDF-File (35 kB) • European Union (Matthias Braun, Ministry of Environment, Austria) PDF-File (85 kB) • Other Parties and Intergovernmental Organizations (Claudio Forner, CIFOR) PDF-File (287 kB) • NGOs (Stephan Singer, WWF International)