The Annual Meeting is a unique
opportunity for information exchange and progress on the GCF’s Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)-related
objectives. The Former California governor - and one of the initiators
of GCF - Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to attend the event.
The meeting will include: a high-level
session attended by ministers, governors, environment secretaries, and
other governmental and inter-governmental organization representatives;
key updates from member states and provinces on major GCF developments
including the GCF REDD+ Knowledge Database and the GCF Fund; and
facilitated breakout sessions on high priority topics including
alignment of national and sub-national REDD policies and environmental
and social safeguards, which will result in concrete action items for
the GCF moving forward.
The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task
Force (GCF) is a unique subnational collaboration between 15 states and
provinces from the United States, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Mexico
that seeks to integrate Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and
Forest Degradation (REDD) and other forest carbon activities into
emerging greenhouse gas (GHG) compliance regimes in the United States
and elsewhere. As such, the GCF represents an important component of
broader efforts to mobilize and advance financing for REDD activities
on a pay-for-performance basis; to provide recommendations for legal
and regulatory design of GHG compliance markets to recognize REDD
activities; to build capacity for such activities in large subnational
jurisdictions in key tropical forest countries; and to develop
institutions and programs for linking subnational REDD activities with
ongoing national and international efforts.
The Governors’ Climate and Forests
(GCF) Task Force originated in November 2008 with a meeting called the
Governors’ Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles. At the meeting, the
governors of the States of California, Illinois and Wisconsin signed a
Memorandum of Understanding to work with the governors of six states in
Indonesia and Brazil on reducing deforestation. A press release about
the MoU from the office of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of
California at the time, stated that “This agreement is the first
state-to-state, sub-national agreement focused on reducing emissions
from deforestation and land degradation (REDD) programs.”
The island of Kalimantan itself counts eight large National Parks, two among which are renowned orang utan reserves located in the province of Central Kalimantan. These are the Tanjung Puting National Park near Pangkalan Bun, and the Sebangau National Park, habitat to the largest community of orang utans in the wild.
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