Jurisdictional REDD+ Perspectives: Progress on scaling finance and support for forest conservation
Environmental Defense Fund
Friday, December 8th, 2023
08:30 - 09:30
Halting and reversing deforestation by 2030 will require high-integrity approaches to forest conservation. To accomplish this, jurisdictions need to be empowered to design and implement impactful JREDD+ programs and generate large-scale mitigation results. This panel session will bring together the NGO community and country representatives to highlight progress with several jurisdictional scale REDD+ initiatives, showcasing lessons learned and perspectives on the path forward to continue catalyzing urgent finance and support needed for forest conservation at scale.
Speakers
- Eron Bloomgarden, Founder and Executive Director, Emergent
- Jason Funk, Director of REDD+ Strategy, Conservation International
- John Verdieck, Director of International Climate Policy, The Nature Conservancy
- Mark Moroge, Vice President of Natural Climate Solutions, Environmental Defense Fund