This seminar will reflect on the outcomes of the climate summit - COP30 in Belem, Brazil - and the implications for tropical forests. Much of the debate has been around the proposed Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), a financial mechanism to generate payments to countries to maintain tropical forests. The presentations and discussion will also cover the debate on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs and LCs), the integration of REDD+ into carbon markets, and Norway’s role.

 

These topics will be covered by the following experts:

• Axel Mikhailova, senior Founding Partner at Perspectives Climate Group:
  COP30 outcomes on forests – addressing the key challenges for financing

 

• Solveig Aamodt, senior researcher, CICERO:

      The politics of COP30

 

• Arild Angelsen, professor, School of Economics and Business, NMBU:

      TFFF – can financial acrobatics save rainforests?

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• Bård Harstad, professor, Stanford University, US

       TFFF and alternative mechanisms for tropical forest conservation 

 

• Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen, director, Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative, Ministry of Climate and Environment.

       Norway’s post-Belem role (tentative title)

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• Richard Erskine, head of Nature Based Solutions, Equinor

       Latest developments on Article 6 – Carbon and Nature

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• Torbjørn Gjefsen, senior advisor in politics, Rainforest Foundation Norway:
  Donor support and commitments for IPs and LCs

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• Aida Cuni-Sanchez, professor, Noragric, NMBU, will moderate the seminar.

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We look forward to an exciting seminar and to seeing you!