Antara News, Saturday, December 4, 2010 15:33 WIB
Cancun-Mexico (ANTARA News) - World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Indonesia expects the Indonesian delegation at the climate change conference in Cancun to fight for a comprehensive agreement on reducing emission from deforestation and degradation (REDD+), a spokesman said.
"In the negotiations, Indonesia should push for a comprehensive agreement on REDD+, an agreement that doesn`t differentiate between the preparatory phase and implementation phase," said Nyoman Iswarayoga, WWF-Indonesia?s director of climate and energy program, in a statement to ANTARA on Friday (Dec 3)
The negotiations at Cancun are held within the scope of 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that began on November 29 and will run until December 10, 2010.
Iswarayoga said that a comprehensive REDD+ agreement and its implementation were
decisive because they relate to the funding of the program as well as the parties interested in funding it. WWF-Indonesia expected the 16th COP will result in a concrete agreement on REDD+.
"The discussions on REDD+ ran well at the previous climate summit so that now at Cancun all we need to do is to call for more focused negotiations on REDD+," Iswarayoga said.
He said that during the discussion on mitigation in he Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), the REDD+ issue became the most progressive as there had been many compromises so that the remaining issues only concerned the wording.
The parties have agreed on several key issues, he said, including the "safeguarding," the structure of REDD+ , from its preparatory phase up to implementation phase and the potency on the implementation.
Despite the progress, there had also been difficult issues such as the sensitive aspects of REDD markets and the "offset" mechanism on which no agreement had been reached, Iswarayoga added.
REDD+ market issue relate to the voluntary market scheme where carbon credit produced by an executor of REDD+ program is purchased by the third parties, like states, regional governments or companies in voluntary manners.
Carbon credit purchased by a third party in the voluntary market scheme will not be used to offset the commitment of Annex-1 countries to reduce their green house gas emissions.
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