{"id":18958,"date":"2018-09-21T21:03:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T02:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=18958"},"modified":"2018-09-26T12:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T17:13:38","slug":"the-big-news-on-forests-you-may-have-missed-during-the-global-climate-action-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2018\/09\/21\/the-big-news-on-forests-you-may-have-missed-during-the-global-climate-action-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"The big news on forests you may have missed during the Global Climate Action Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week marked another significant achievement in California\u2019s climate leadership, as the state hosted side-by-side global gatherings of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), and the tenth annual meeting of the Governors\u2019 Climate and Forests Task Force, a multi-lateral organization of subnational jurisdictions, which California helped launch in 2008.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But California doesn\u2019t just add to the notches in its environmental leadership by hosting meetings, drawing celebrities, and showcasing pledges.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the work that underlies it all \u2013 years, even decades in the making \u2013 that gives California the heft to pull off these feats.<\/p>\n

One of California\u2019s real accomplishments that was overshadowed \u2013 undeservedly \u2013 by the summit was the release of the California Tropical Forest Standard<\/a>, which would lay the groundwork to help protect tropical forests around the world by leveraging the state\u2019s climate program and its global vision.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Importance of forests to stopping climate change<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Cutting and burning tropical forests is not only a threat to biodiversity and millions of people who depend on tropical forests for their livelihoods and cultures, but it also contributes between 16-19% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Decimating these forests exceeds the greenhouse gas emissions of all the cars, trucks, and ships in the world combined<\/em> every single year.<\/p>\n

It’s not possible to keep the earth\u2019s warming below 2 degrees without significantly reducing emissions from cutting down tropical forests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If you\u2019re concerned about value of tropical forests to people and the planet, you\u2019ve probably noticed that other folks who care about this too have been crying, \u201cSave the Rainforest!\u201d from the rooftops since the 1980s.<\/p>\n

And yet \u2013 the destruction continues.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because the drivers of that deforestation are economic.<\/p>\n

Currently, around the world, we tend to value forests for the timber that\u2019s in them, the valuable land they grow on, or the oil reserves underneath them. We do not value them for the global ecosystem service they provide by being one of the world\u2019s largest carbon sinks and contributing to critical global hydrological cycles that affect people, not only in them and near them, but as far away as places like Northern California and the Sierra Nevada. Today there is no economic counterweight to keeping tropical forests standing for the protection of the planet and all of us.<\/p>\n

The California Tropical Forest Standard<\/a> could change that.<\/p>\n

Carbon markets provide incentives for emissions reductions<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Putting a price on carbon emissions provides a financial incentive to those who reduce them. Carbon markets like California\u2019s attach a price to carbon emissions, incentivizing emissions reductions by polluters, while also allowing trading of emissions reduction credits (called \u201callowances\u201d) between entities in the market.<\/p>\n

But the market also incentivizes emissions reductions from non-regulated sources through a limited number of \u201coffsets\u201d that can be purchased by regulated industries from sectors like agriculture and forestry when they reduce emissions in accordance with strict protocols set by the California Air Resources Board, which regulates the market.<\/p>\n

That means that markets can provide a steady stream of financing that incentivizes these very real greenhouse gas reductions at scale \u2013 and help tropical forest jurisdictions provide a counterweight to the drivers of deforestation while transitioning to more sustainable economic development pathways.<\/p>\n

California Tropical Forest Standard<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The California Tropical Forest Standard would set the bar for state-level forest protection efforts creating credits for real emissions reductions that could be sold into California\u2019s carbon market and, eventually, into other markets throughout the world. That\u2019s important for a few reasons.<\/p>\n

1. The bar for these reductions in compliance markets should be high. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Both the environmental integrity of the reductions (i.e. ensuring that the greenhouse gas reductions credited are measured and accounted for accurately) and the quality of safeguards needed to ensure that these programs benefit forest dependent communities are critical to the long-term success of this approach. And California is well-positioned to do this. The California Air Resources Board has been studying this issue for a decade and the current proposed Standard draws on international best practice standards as well as the experience of jurisdictions actually implementing the highest quality programs in the world.<\/p>\n

2. We cannot escape climate catastrophe without solutions for tropical forests and people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scientists agree<\/a> it will not be possible to reach the goal of keeping the earth\u2019s warming below 2 degrees without significantly reducing emissions from cutting down tropical forests. Avoiding the human toll of climate catastrophe across the globe is tied to protecting forests. Many indigenous and traditional communities depend on standing, healthy forests every day to survive and thrive.<\/p>\n

Indigenous peoples have been living in, managing, and protecting forests for thousands of years and continue to do so today \u2013 and many other traditional forest communities, such as rubber tappers in the Brazilian Amazon, make their livings managing the forest without destroying it. But they can\u2019t hold off the onslaught on deforestation pressure without support. Policies and programs in tropical forest jurisdictions that support these sustainable livelihoods need the financial incentives that carbon markets can provide. We all benefit from providing resources to those who wisely use and steward forests for the planet.<\/p>\n

3. It is not only California\u2019s market that is in play here. <\/strong><\/p>\n

California\u2019s Standard makes the state a first-mover among compliance markets in considering how\/when\/if to credit programs that can demonstrate these large scale reductions in emissions, but it will likely not be alone. Emerging markets like the one created by the International Civil Aviation Organization through the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme (CORSIA)<\/a>, as well as prospective markets around the world (such as in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, China, or others) could replicate this standard \u2013 which is good news for tropical forests if they adhere to California\u2019s rigorous requirements. It would also be great news for the atmosphere, since California\u2019s standard ensures far greater environmental integrity and social equity than some of the alternatives under consideration.<\/p>\n

Conclusion <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Among the many critical climate issues confronting us on climate change highlighted last week, tropical forests and the people who live in and depend on them were among those that justifiably took center stage<\/a>. Rightly so \u2013 given the weight of the problem, and the historic participation of indigenous leaders from all over the globe who gathered to speak up for their rights, the importance of forests, and to work in partnership<\/a> to craft the solutions for tropical forests and climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Linking carbon markets to these solutions requires careful consideration from scientific, legal, technical and cultural perspectives, consideration that California has diligently made over the past decade. The Standard, now out for public comment, could be a global game changer. It deserves our notice and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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