Jurisdictional Approaches to REDD+:

International trends and the

FCPF Carbon Fund
Werner Kornexl & Andr Aquino
Workshop on REDD+ Architecture Design in Indonesia
Bogor, Indonesia
18 April, 2013

Outline

Introduction to a jurisdictional approach

to REDD+?
International trends on jurisdictional
approaches
FCPF Carbon Fund

Jurisdictional approach to REDD+?

What is the Jurisdictional Approach?

An option to design the national framework (architecture) for REDD+ at the national
level
Addresses questions such as?

At what level can REDD+ activities take place?

Who leads these activities?

At what level to account for emissions reductions?

Reaction to multiplication of stand-alone REDD+ projects + uncertainty about how

these nest into the national REDD+ framework environmental integrity

Basic elements of the jurisdictional approach

REDD+ activities have a clear boundary: that of a legal jurisdiction (Province / State;
District, etc.)

MRV and REL should be set at an administrative level

Incentives / Performance-based also managed at that level

Multi-sectoral investments to REDD+

Includes a policy interventions (land use planning, land tenure clarification, etc.)

International Trends

Jurisdictional approaches are gaining traction internationally

Demand-Side

Supply-side

(Donors and markets)

(REDD+ countries)

VCS (voluntary
markets)
Jurisdictional and Nested
REDD+ guidelines

California market

Jurisdictions in Brazil and

Mexico

Germany (REM)
FCPF Carbon Fund

Brazil
Acre state

Costa Rica
DRC
Ethiopia
Mexico

FCPF Carbon Fund: Introduction and Update

FCPF Carbon Fund aims to pilot large scale performance-based payments

against verified emissions reductions

Each at around US$60-70 million

FCPF Methodological framework under construction

Different scales / levels of action (district, province, national), but

always within the national framework for REDD+

Five Emissions Programs Programs expected

Reward countries efforts to reduce deforestation and degradation

First draft of Methodological framework by June 2013

Costa Rica has been selected by the Fund as a first Program

The FCPF Carbon Fund

Readiness Fund

Carbon Fund

Capacity building

Emission reductions
(2011-2020)

Committed: $258 million

Committed: $390 million

- 36 REDD countries
- 18 donors
- 6 categories of observers

Emission Reduction Programs

Compared with REDD+ projects, ER Programs happen

at a jurisdictional level and typically propose multiple
activities, policies and investments, as a coordinated
set.
Main elements include:

Institutional arrangements
Strategy to reduce deforestation
REL & MRV
Social and Environmental Safeguards and Co-benefits
Financial structure

FCPF: Link between National and Sub-National Level

ER-PIN selection criteria into the FCPF

Progress towards
Readiness
Political commitment
Methodological
Framework
Scale

Signed a Readiness Preparation grant agreement

Reasonable and credible timeline to submit a Readiness Package
High-level and cross-sectoral political commitment to the ER
Program, and to implementing REDD+
Consistent with the emerging Methodological Framework
National level or at a significant sub-national scale. Jurisdictional
Generates a large volume of Emission Reductions

Technical soundness

All the sections of the ER-PIN template are adequately

addressed

Non-carbon benefits

Generates substantial non-carbon benefits

Diversity and learning

value

Contains innovative features

Adds diversity and generate learning value for the Carbon Fund
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