Royal Society Workshop on Forests, REDD and the EU ETS
On the 5th November the GCP co-hosted a workshop with the Royal Society entitled 'Forests, REDD and the EU ETS". The workshop focused on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation adn Degradation (REDD) and the possible inclusion of forestry credits in the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) - by far the world's largest segment of the carbon market.
In January 2008, the EU Commission initiated the review of the EU ETS by proposing a number of ammendments that would define the rules of the scheme from the third allocation period, coming into effect in 2013 (alongside the success to the Kyoto Protocol). In accordance with the EU's co-decision procedure, the ETS review is currently being considered by Parliament (both its Industry Committee and Environment Committee have now voted on ammendments) and the Council of Ministers and could be fast-tracked into law as early as its first readin in late December 2008.
Changes to the ETS will imipact not only the European carbon market itself, but will directly inform and influence the wider international climate frameworks and - insofar as forestsry is concerned - the REDD negotiations under the UNFCCC. It was with an eye on these wider ramifications that the Royal Society workshop was convened, since despite active debate on these issues in recent months in Brusses, there has been relatively little public discussion of forestry and the EU ETS in the UK.
This workshop was made possible with the gererous support of the European Climate Foundation.
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Session 1 – Europe and Tropical Forests
Bas Clabbers, Ministry of Agriculture, nature and good quality, Netherlands Government
Romain Pirard, Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI)
Dr Peter May, Amigos da Terra, Amazônia Brasileira
Duncan Stone, Office of Climate Change, UK Government
Session 2 – Pros and Cons of Forests in the EU ETS: Analysing Barriers and Opportunities
Discussion 1: Forest credits, Auction allowances, and the price of carbon
Ruben Lubowski, Environmental Defense Fund
Discussion 2: Methodological Issues: Permanence, leakage and liability
Charlotte Cawthorne, Prince’s Rainforests Project
Pedro Moura Costa, Ecosecurities
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