Task Force over REDD contributes for the construction of a Brazilian proposal to curb climate changes at COP 15
Source: Fundação Amazonas Sustentável
(10/12/2009 / Manaus/AM)
The Task Force over REDD and Climate Changes is the result of a singular construction process that had as its challenge the quest for a convergence between the visions of the Governors of the Amazon and the Federal Government about the two themes. It was added to this challenge a recommendation by the President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, aiming at finding a balance between the recommendations of the Task Force and the Brazilian Forum of Climate Change.
The recommendations made by the Task Force over REDD, (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), contributed for the construction of the Brazilian proposal to curb climate changes that will be presented at the 15th Conference of Parts (COP 15) sponsored by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) from the 7th to the 18th in Copenhagen (Denmark). Among the main recommendations there are; a 10% quota for REDD compensation, triple mechanism of financing of REDD and more ambitious goals for the rich countries.
Instituted with the support of the President of Brazil based on the proposal of the Governors of the Amazon Forum, the Task Force over REDD gathered dozens of specialists in the environmental area, representatives of several government agencies and non-governmental organizations from July to October 2009.
The coordinator and spokesperson of the I Report of the Task Force over REDD and Climate Changes, Virgilio Viana, general director of FAS and former secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of the State of Amazonas, emphasized that for the Task Force the three mechanisms for financing the REDD must be: mechanisms of governmental financing, mechanisms of market without compensation and mechanisms of market with compensations for the emissions of rich countries (Annex I).
The Task Force get together for a picture on one of its meetings in Manaus. Picture by Edgar Nogueira.
For the Task Force, as a condition for the inclusion of the REDD as a compensation mechanism, the countries of the Annex I must, in a mandatory nature, commit themselves to support mitigation actions of emissions by developing countries; besides making commitments, again, of mandatory nature, of minimum goals to reduce their domestic national emissions.
