The Rainforest Alliance has an important role and voice to share at COP28. We see Climate COP as an important forum to promote and advocate for actions and solutions in land use policy and practices. These address both mitigation and adaptation and promote a holistic approach to climate resilience across farms, forests, landscapes and supply chains.
The Rainforest Alliance has a large delegation of experts attending across the two-week period. Don’t hesitate to contact our delegates ahead or during COP28 to schedule meetings.
Our Delegation
Week 1: November 30 – December 6, 2023
Week 2: December 7- 12, 2023
Events
December 1-3, 2023
Rainforest Alliance Booth
Blue Zone, Booth 18
Rainforest Alliance plays a unique role in delivering climate action across the agriculture, forestry and land use sector. It brings together producers, communities, market actors, governments, civil society, donors and others into strategic alliances that collectively drive rapid change at scale.
We will be co-hosting this booth with our colleagues from Eco Agriculture representing the 1000 landscapes for 1 billion People initiatives.
Meet us there to learn more about the Rainforest Alliance and our work, or simply if you want to say hi!
December 3, 2023, 12:30 – 14:00
Integrated Community Forest Management (ICFM) for climate benefits, forest productivity and livelihoods of forest-dependent communities in Central Africa
Venue: COMIFAC Pavilion
The Integrated Community Forest Management (ICFM) approach is a conservation and development strategy which recognizes and builds upon the strong link between economic and ecological resilience. This is achieved by placing forest communities at the heart of safeguarding and restoring our world’s forest.
During this event, we will share the experience of the Rainforest Alliance and its partners in participatory and sustainable forest governance for climate change mitigation, anticipation, adaptation and community well-being in Cameroon and DRC in partnership with the GEF, UNE, MINEPDED and UNEP
Expected Results:
- Highlight and demonstrate the coherence and necessity of reconciling the objectives of sustainable participatory governance and improving the living conditions of local communities.
- Present Rainforest Alliance Climate strategy and demonstrate the potential of Integrated Community Forest Management
December 6, 2023, 16:00 – 17:20
Coffee in a Changing Climate – Impacts and Solutions
Venue: Indonesia Pavilion
Themed “Indonesia’s Climate Actions: Inspiring the World,” the Indonesia Pavilion is set up as a soft diplomacy effort to showcase Indonesia’s actions, strategies and innovations to the international community, voicing the concrete manifestation of jointly leading climate action. The Pavilion promotes climate change control program by the Government of Indonesia together with stakeholders in a constructive, integrative and elaborative manner. The space also creates opportunities for parties to explore ideas, options, and networks in the context of strengthening efforts to control climate change in Indonesia.
Objectives:
- To understand the challenges of sustainable coffee production amidst the climate crisis
- To share the innovation and best practices of climate action and climate justice in the coffee industry
- To explore the opportunities for joint climate actions focusing on coffee production and consumption at the national, regional, and international levels.
December 8 2023, 16:45-18:15
Integrated Landscape Finance: Funding Climate Resilience at Scale Via Local Action and Partnership
Blue Zone, Room: SE Room 7 (125 pax)
Various forecasts estimate that climate finance must reach $3-5.2 trillion annually by 2030 to address the climate and biodiversity crises. While current climate finance flows fall far short of that goal, the approximately three-quarters of a trillion dollars annually that the public and private sectors direct to these investments is significant and growing annually. Yet this sum conceals a major issue that threatens to derail good intentions: much of this funding is spent inefficiently, goes to the wrong place, or sits on the sidelines for lack of investable climate projects. Meanwhile those farmers, landowners, Indigenous Peoples, local governments, and businesses most central to implementing climate action on the ground cannot get funding for transformative investments.
Integrated landscape finance (ILF) is a new approach to financing climate projects that takes a holistic view of the landscape to optimize investment. This approach recognizes that climate change is a complex issue that requires a comprehensive solution spanning agriculture, forests, finance and access to it, food systems, renewable power generation, rural development, and other elements. Integrated landscape finance has important implications for the European Green Deal and for initiatives worldwide. It can help to fund projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, boost livelihoods, protect biodiversity, and build resilience to climate change.
A panel of speakers will explore how ILF can be a powerful tool to initiate and leverage local projects at scale and in a coordinated way, through multi-stakeholder alliances, to achieve transformational change and address climate change. Panelists will include landscape finance experts, organizations leading climate action across farms, forests and rural landscapes, local landscape leaders who have successfully secured funding to implement climate projects, and financiers who can talk about their organization’s journey augmenting their funding strategies and approaches using a landscape finance lens.
December 9 2023, 11:30-12:20
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) session: Private Sector Accountability & Just Transition in the Agriculture Sector
Blue Zone, ILO Just Transition Pavilion
Agriculture contributes 23% GHG emissions, affecting 2.5 billion livelihoods. Climate change disrupts operations, harms worker safety, reduces income, spurs food insecurity. Farmers need support: living wages, land rights, and labor protections. Key elements to support small producers include ensuring living wages or living income, formalizing their enterprises, land titles and labor relations, adequate social and labor protections. The event will focus on private sector accountability in just transition, including through transparency on adaptation plans.
December 11 2023, 14:00 – 15:30
Climate Chance Association: Climate and biodiversity issues from the perspective of ecological connectivity: challenges & opportunities in West Africa
BOAD’s Pavilion
Drawing on its experience of the African continent and its expertise in stakeholder networking, Climate Chance and its partners are organising a side-event entitled “Converging climate-biodiversity agendas in West Africa: towards an integrated approach to ecological”. The aim is to bring together a panel of high-level speakers working at the intersection of climate, conservation and finance to Discuss experiences and opportunities for carbon financing in connectivity conservation projects to benefit people, wildlife and ecosystems.