How Carbon Finance can Support NDCs and Ambitious Climate Action on Nature
Wildlife Conservation Society
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
11:00 - 12:00
Carbon finance, through the Voluntary Carbon Market, Article 6 and other global compliance mechanisms, is expected to be instrumental in helping countries meet their NDC commitments. This event will explore the planning and other actions needed to strategically deploy carbon finance of all types to support scaled implementation on nature, and particularly forests, to meet necessary ambition in NDCs.
Speakers
- Roselyn Fosuah Adjei, Director, Climate Change, Forestry Commission, and National REDD+ Focal Point, Ghana
- Lovakanto Ravelomanana, Director, National Office of Climate Change and REDD+ (BNCCREDD+), Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Madagascar
- Freddy Manyika, Climate Change Focal Point for the Vice President’s Office of Tanzania
- Julie Messias, Secretary of Environment and Indigenous Policies, state of Acre, Brazil, and President of the Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force, Brazil
- Aloísio Lopes Pereira de Melo, Director of Mitigation and Adaption in the Ministry of Environment, Brazil
- Joe Walston, Exec Vice President of Global Conservation, WCS