Support to the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) in the UNFCCC

This project aimed at providing technical support to the AGN REDD+ working group to enable the group to provide a technical proposal on how non-carbon benefits (NCB) can be measured, reported, verified, incentivized and compensated or supported as part of the REDD+ mechanism under the UNFCCC. FOKABS’ role together with other experts included:

Elaboration of a technical paper on NCB of forests to guide the position of AGN during REDD+ negotiations at COP and SBSTA.
Provision of methodological guidance during UNFCCC negotiations on NCB
Differentiate between the terms “co-benefits” and “non-carbon benefits”
Identify the NCB within the African context, including the Mediterranean region
Identify approaches to incentivizing, compensating and/or paying for NCB
Propose simple methodological guidelines to help evaluate different NCB
Identification of internationally acceptable principles for generating NCB Identification of institutional frameworks to support NCB at the national and international levels

Location

Ethiopia | Germany

Implementation Period

01/2015 – 06/2015

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Client

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SDG

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