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DocumentHow Brazilian Tree Industry can help complying with climate change agenda linked to Sustainable Development Goals, Global Forest Goals and Brazilian NDC under Paris Agreement
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá) is the association responsible for institutionally representing the planted tree production chain with its main stakeholders. Ibá represents 50 companies and 9 state entities for products originating from planted trees, most notably wood panels, laminate flooring, pulp, paper, charcoal steel industry and biomass, as well as independent producers and financial investors which together contribute with 7% of Brazil’s industrial Gross Domestic Product. The sector holds 9 million hectares of planted trees and 5.9 million hectares for conservation.
The Brazilian NDC aiming at reducing GHG emissions in 37%by 2025 and 43% by 2030. Such an ambitious goal will demand, according to the Government, the restoration of 12 million hectares of forest, achieve zero illegal deforestation in Amazonia, attain 45% of renewable energy and 18% of bioenergy and ensure compliance with the Forest Code.
This industry has a substantial contribution to several Global Forest Goals of UNFF and SDGs from Agenda 2030, in terms of adaptation and mitigation of climate change. Regardless the goal and governance related, both in national or international level, Brazilian planted-tree sector plays an important role and this paper aims to show how.
As a brief the sector is now monitoring dozens and reporting 17 KPIs on water management; 89% of the energy is renewable and 67% is produced in-house; 67% of paper is recycled, 4.48 billion tons of CO2e is stored in almost 15 million hectares of forests for commercial and conservation purposes. At steel industry, each ton of pig iron produced with charcoal coming from planted forest as a substitution from coal, avoids the issue of 1.8 ton CO2eq. At civil construction, the use of wood stocks 0.5 on of CO2e per square meter of construction, compared to the use of conventional materials. The carbon removed from atmosphere is fixed in the biomass that will become products and can store from 45% up to 85% of the mass products. Keywords: Climate change, Adaptive and integrated management, Economic Development ID: 3487149 -
ArticleAugmenting climate change mitigation and forestry financing through social innovation: the case of Malawi and the Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Various studies suggest that the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Agreement will depend on how cities in Africa manage climate change and deforestation. For example, over 70% of greenhouse gas emissions are associated with urban areas and countries such as Malawi consumes no less than 1,708,074 m3 of natural forest wood annually in-order to facilitate the construction of houses. Unfortunately, Africa is one of the least studied regions in terms of biodiversity dynamics and climate variability hence lacks strategies to protect and sustainably utilise forest resources for national development. Social innovation (SI) practices can promote socio-economic development by bringing about changes in the way social agents act and interact with each other through the creation of new institutions and new social systems. The United Nations One Planet Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme piloted the “Polycentric Infrastructure and Community Development Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Transitions (PICD-SUT)” framework in Malawi in order to demonstrate how SI can augment carbon sequestration and mobilise climate finance through rentals from housing developments. This exploratory study aims to expound on how the implementation of the PICD-SUT framework can enable cities African cities to utilise SI as a strategy to augment sustainable forest management practices and improve forestry sector financing. The methodology used included analyses of research articles and case studies. The paper discovered that SI can reduce public sector budget deficits for forestry programmes by providing alternative sources for financing community forest management initiatives. It was therefore concluded that transformative forest management policies should incorporate SI strategies as a means for enhancing partnerships and technology transfers for improved forest management between communities and non-state actors. Keywords: Climate Change, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Urbanisation ID: 3623738 -
DocumentClimate Change Financing. What Are the Challenges and the Opportunities for Financing Agriculture in Africa?
Issue Papers. EASYPol Module 100
2011Also available in:
While agriculture contributes significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which need mitigating, it also provides opportunities for significant carbon storage, for example, in tree crops and in soils. In fact, the global sequestration potential through increasing organic soil carbon via improved agricultural practices is estimated to be 1 to 6 Gt of carbon per year. In Africa, one of the most significant consequences of conventional agriculture is the rapid depletion of soil organic ma tter (SOM). Repeated cultivation and use degrades soils and lowers crop yields while increases production costs. African farmers have the potential to both reduce GHG emissions and increase agricultural yields. The technical mitigation potential of agriculture by 2030 in Africa reaches 2Gt of CO2-eq per year1 . With the promise of emission reductions, carbon finance could underwrite the training of farmers in new practices as well as establish Monitoring, Verifying, Reporting (MRV) systems to track that both carbon and agricultural benefits are accrued2 . As potential interest in African agricultural carbon projects grows, the pipeline of prospective projects also expands. Current performing carbon funded projects present four main similarities : (i) a clearly defined geographic delimitation, (ii) an aggregator which is a main organization grouping the beneficiaries and providing an eventual channel to provide incentives to beneficiaries, (iii) a clearly quantified carbon red uction target based on GHG calculator as FAO EX-ACT, and (iv) access to carbon funding support.
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