Forest
About the Working Group
The SNRD Asia and the Pacific working group on Forest focuses on the topics of (1) How can Forest be successfully implemented in the region and (2) how can GIZ position itself? The working group is primarily pushing the exchange of Forest knowledge and experiences (e.g. MRV/REL; Safeguards, and Safeguards Information Systems: Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), FCPF related issues i.e. access to the FCPF Carbon Fund, climate finance as well as carbon markets and biodiversity issues) among the GIZ staff of the Forest working group to provide profound advisory services to our partner countries.
Issues / Topics
The Warsaw Framework for Forest was adopted in December 2013, providing additional guidance for in-country Forest implementation. Forest is part of the Paris Climate Agreement. It has implications for the WG Forest and in-country implementation, including Safeguards Information System, national forest monitoring approaches and reference levels as well as access to climate finance. Another priority will be around Forest Landscape Restoration and Deforestation-free supply chains.
Project / Programme
- Assistance to the International Alliance against Health Risks in the Trade of Wildlife and their Products
- Forest Landscape Restoration
- Forests and Climate Change Programme (FORCLIME)
- Land Management and Decentralised Planning (LMDP)
- Peatland management and rehabilitation
- Support for the implementation of the VPA-FLEGT in Viet Nam
- Upscaling Sustainable Forest Management and Certification in Viet Nam
PUBLICATIONS/KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS
- Hand-out the ASEAN Negotiating Group on Agriculture (ANGA)
- The ASEAN Climate Resilience Network (ASEAN-CRN) Leaflet, 2019
- Booklet ACLP 2021 Promoting Climate-Smart Land Use for Implementing Nationally Determined Contributions
- Information to support ASEAN agriculture sector negotiators
- Policy Brief Positioning ASEAN in International Climate Negotiations. Lessons Learned from the ASEAN Negotiating Group for Agriculture (ANGA)
- The ASEAN Guidance for Climate-Smart Land Use Practices – a Review
- A Story about Agriculture in Times of Climate Crisis and COVID-19
- Double Impact: Covid-19 and Climate Change in Food and Agriculture
- Climate-smart land use practice Insight Brief series
- Brochure Climate Smart Land Use in ASEAN 2019
HIGHLIGHT ACTIVITIES
CONTACT PERSON
CONCLUDED PROJECT
- Biodiversity and Adaptation of Key Forest Ecosystems to Climate Change II Program
- Climate Protection through Avoided Deforestation (CliPAD)
- Climate Smart Land Use in ASEAN
- Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Viet Nam
- Forest and Climate Protection in Panay-Phase II
- Forestry and Climate Change (FOR-CC)
- International Forest Policy (IWP)
- REED- Forest Conservation in the Pacific Islands States II