1. Network for Certification and Conservation of Forests

3.  Natural causes to the climate change  Primary driver of the rapid climate change is the increase concentration of GHG particularly Co 2, in the atmosphere.  Co 2 concentration in the atmosphere is at highest level in over 6,50,000 years.

4.  Forest removes co2 from the atmosphere  Forest stores carbon  Forest emits carbon through deforestation and degradation  Around 20% of GHG comes from forest degradation and deforestation.  More than the emission coming from entire global transportation sector  10,000 hectare of deforestation emits 5 million tons of Co 2 which it is more than the annual emission for 800 megawatt coal fired power plant.

5. Global annual deforestation results in a loss of 13 million hectares of forest and emission of almost 6 billion tons of co 2 annually This is more than emission from the entire energy sector in the European Union.

6.  Conserving existing forests keep emission from deforestation out of the atmosphere  Restoring forest through planting trees or facilitating the natural tree generation of increases the amount of carbon that forest can remove the atmosphere and store in there biomass  Sustainably managing forest threw majors such as reduce impact logging and forest certification can help to avoid emission form forest degradation.

9.  Forestry can mitigate 6.8 Gtco2e per year.  Other sectors can contribute 20 GtCo2e.  Half of the mitigation would come from avoided deforestation.  Other half would come from reforestation.

10.  Drivers are diverse and complex.  Two major types of Drivers  Underlying (Social economic political and/ or cultural factors.)  Direct (agriculture, logging, mining and infrastructure expansion)  Drivers of deforestation vary regionally  Economic factors is most permanent underlying causes of deforestation.

11. Four Categories  Forest Protection  Sustainable Forest Management.  Conservation Finance  Responsible Trade

12.  Establishment of Protected Areas.  Most effective way to Conserve Forest Carbon, Biodiversity and other Eco System Services  Two strategies for Forest Protection Protected Areas (Success often depends on the supports of local communities.) Kind of protected areas 1.Strict Nature Reserve/ Wilderness Area 2.Habitat/ Species Management Area 3.Protected Landscape/ Seascape 4.Natural Monument 5.National Park

13. 2.Infrastructure Management Requires rigorous environmental and social assessments

14.  100% Forests can’t be under strict protection  Demand of forest products  SFM can have significant carbon benefits Biodiversity, and community benefits  SFM as the stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in a way, and at a rate that maintenance biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capacity, vitality and their potential to fulfill, now and in the future, relevant ecological, economic and social functions, at local, national, and global levels, and that does not cause damage to other ecosystems. -FAO  SFM is also referred as improved Forest Management (IFM)

15. Land Swaps Agro forestry Reduced Impact Logging Alternative Employment Community Forest Management

16. Currently Proposed REDD+ Debt-for- Nature Swaps. Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes. Bio diversity offset

17.  The Forest Products Industry worth US$ 178 billion per year.  More than 32 million acres of natural forest are logged worldwide.  Most of the wood logged illegally and unsustainably  Both producer and consumer countries can help.  Two aspects of responsible trade. 1.Demand-Side Management. 2.Supply Side Management

18.  Lacey Act- Amended in 2008 to ban commerce in illegally sourced plants and their products including timber wood and paper product. It is basically designed to minimize the risk of illegal wood entering the supply chain.  Illegal Logging Prohibition Act, 2011(Australia)- A Bill for an Act to combat illegal logging, and for related purposes.

19.  FLEGT(Forest Law Enforcement in Governance and Trade)- In 2003 European Union developed Action Plan which provides a number of measures to exclude illegal timber from markets, improve the supplier of legal timber and increase the demand for wood products from legal sources. The main element of this action plan is EUTR.

20.  EUTR is designed to combat the trade in and harvesting of illegal timber.  It came into force from 3rd of March 2013.  It applies to wood and wood products being placed for the first time in the European Union market.  It counters the trade in illegally harvested timber and timber products by imposing three key obligations.

21.  Forest Certification is a market-based non-regulatory conservation tool designed to recognize and promote responsible forest management.  Through Certification, timber harvest planning and practices are evaluated by an independent third party, according to standards that address environmental protection as well as social and economic welfare.

22.  Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)  Program for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC)  Sustainable Forest Management (SFI)  CSA, MTTC, LEI etc.

23. Thank you Sachin Raj Jain Treasurer and Convener, NCCF