Technical & networking sessions slot 1

UNEP WCMC; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Land-use change models allow an assessment of how policies (including those for REDD+) affect land cover and use; including through impacts on agriculture, economics, biodiversity and ecosystem services. Models that can represent the different relevant sectors including forestry, crop production and grazing can therefore support landscape scale planning for agriculture, climate change mitigation and adaptation. This session will explore the interactions between different sectoral policies including mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity conservation, and how land-use change models can be used for landscape scale planning, focusing on planning for REDD+. The session will take the form of a series of 10 minute presentations from experts followed by an extended open discussion (of about 1 hour).

The key questions that will be addressed in the session are:

1. What are the important interactions between climate change mitigation, adaptation, agriculture and biodiversity conservation policies for landscape-scale planning?
2. How can land-use change modeling support landscape-scale planning for REDD+, agriculture, forestry and biodiversity conservation?
3. What are the current limiting factors for using land use change modeling to support integrated land-use planning?

Background reading:

1. UN-REDD Policy Brief: REDD+ Multiple Benefits

Contact details: rebecca.mant@unep-wcmc.org

Speakers

• Gilberto Câmara

  Researcher on Geoinformatics at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and Brazil Chair at the University of Münster in Germany (2013-2015).

• Rebecca Mant

  Senior Programme Officer, Climate Change and Biodiversity Programme at UNEP-WCMC.

• Agung Wicaksono

  Special Assistant to Head of President’s Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4).

• Martin Tadoum

  Deputy Executive Secretary of Central African Forestry Commission –COMIFAC, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

• Michiel van Eupen

  Project lead of the EU-FP7 ROBIN project (Role of Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation) at Alterra Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands.

• Nur Masripatin

  Director of the Centre for Standardization and Environment, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia.

Moderator

• Michael Obersteiner

  Leader of the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program at IIASA