HIGH-INTEGRITY AMAZON FOREST CARBON CREDITS FROM JURISDICTIONAL REDD+ ARE ALMOST HERE! (PLENARY)
December 8th, 2022 at 2:00pm ET
Carbon credits from large-scale “jurisdictional REDD+” (j-REDD+) programs, that operate at the scale of entire states and nations, are about to break into the voluntary carbon market. In the Brazilian Amazon alone, revenues from these credits could deliver $2bn per year or more to the states’ low-emission development strategies. Previous experiences with j-REDD+ “pay-for-performance” contracts in Acre and Mato Grosso demonstrate the power of this approach to deliver benefits to a range of stakeholders. Join us for a high-profile exchange with Amazonian subnational leaders, carbon financiers, researchers and indigenous leaders about the future of j-REDD+ in the Amazon region.
Marli Santos
Tocantins State Government
Superintendent of Management of Environmental Public Policies. Secretary of the Environment and Water Resources of the Brazilian state of Tocantins. PhD in Sustainable Development from the Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasília (CDS_UNB), graduated in Social Communication/Journalism from the Federal University of Goiás (1989) and Master’s in Rural Resources and Environmental Policy from the Imperial College at Wye – England. She served as a Specialized Ministerial Analyst at the Environment Operational Support Center-CAOMA-of the Public Ministry of Tocantins. She was General Director of Environment and Forests at the Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of the State of Tocantins -SEMADES-TO. She served as a Marketing Specialist at The Nature Conservancy in Brasilia. She has experience in the field of communication, with an emphasis on the environment, working mainly on the following topics: sustainable livelihoods, carbon sequestration, climate change, energy policy and environmental legislation. She served as an undergraduate professor at the Catholic Faculty of Tocantins and was former president of the environmental agency of the state of Tocantins-Naturatins. She has chaired the environmentalist NGO Gaia-TO. She has published seven books, two scientific articles and several articles for newspapers and magazines.
Monica de Los Rios
Earth Innovation Institute Brazil
Monica Julissa De Los Rios de Leal received her B.S. degree in biology and obtained an MSc. degree in Ecology and Natural Resources Management by the Federal University of Acre. Over the last 10 years she has been working with monitoring deforestation and forest fires in the southwestern Amazon. Between 2008 – 2014 she worked for the Government of Acre in the development and implementation of state public policies to mitigate climate change as the State Plan for Prevention and Control Deforestation of Acre and the Law that create the State System of Incentives for Environmental Services – SISA of Acre that include a Jurisdictional Carbon Program as a strategy to establish a low emission development at subnational level. She was the representative of the Government of Acre at the Governor for Climate and Forest Task Force – GCF, in the REDD Working Group created by the Memorandum of Understanding between California, Acre and Chiapas, and in the International Steering Committee of the REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards (REDD+ SES). Monica’s work at Earth Innovation’s directly supports national and subnational governments in Peru and Brazil to design and implement REDD+ and LED-R strategies through territorial performance systems. This includes supporting the development of a GCF Performance Standard for the Brazilian states.
Fernando Sampaio
Instituto PCI
Fernando Sampaio is an Agricultural Engineer graduated from the Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz” in 1997, with a specialization in the meat and milk market from the École Supérieure d’Agriculture d’Angers in France. Sampaio worked in the international meat market in France, at Société des Viandes Bretagne Anjou – Soviba between 2000 and 2001, and at Meat Import Zandbergen Brothers BV from 2001 to 2008. In 2009 he assumed sustainability coordination for the Brazilian Association of Beef Exporters – ABIEC, and was its Executive Director from 2011 to 2016 working on institutional representation of the sector, including in international negotiations, trade promotion and at the same time continuing the sustainability agenda. Fernando participated in the formation of the Working Group on Sustainable Livestock (GTPS), a multistakeholder initiative, and was its President from 2015 to 2016, also participating in the Board of the Global Rountable for Sustainable Beef – GRSB and the Sustainability Committee of the International Meat Secretariat – IMS. In October 2016, he took on the role of Executive Director of the Produce, Conserve, Include (PCI) Strategy, a jurisdictional sustainability initiative in the State of Mato Grosso. Since then, he has been working to implement the Strategy, which enters a new phase with the creation of the PCI Institute in early 2019.
Celso Fiori
Mercuria
Celso Fiori is the Director of Natural Climate Solutions and Bioenergy for Mercuria in Brazil. He leads Mercuria’s carbon and environmental product business and project development in the country. Prior to joining Mercuria, Celso was Director of Institutional Relations and Sustainability at BP. He is an Agricultural Engineer and has a PhD in Genetics and Biochemistry from the University of São Paulo, and has extensive experience in bioenergy and climate change.
Franklin Paniagua
Architecture for REDD+ Transactions
As the Associate Director of Policy, Franklin Paniagua contributes to the strategic positioning of the ART program as well as serving as a liaison to external stakeholders. Franklin Paniagua was the former deputy minister of the environment for Costa Rica, from 2019 to 2022. Before that, he was the National Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution director at the Ministry of Justice. In this capacity, he led the implementation of the General Mechanism for Indigenous Consultation, which frames the application of the ILO-169 Convention. He has over 25 years of experience in environmental law, particularly in the facilitation and mediation of multi-stakeholder public interest conflicts. Franklin has a Law degree from the University of Costa Rica Law School and a master’s from the University of Florida. He has published several handbooks regarding citizen engagement, social dialogue, negotiation and academic articles in the fields of environmental policy, public conflicts, and participation.
Daniel Nepstad
Earth Innovation Institute
Dr. Nepstad, President and Founder of Earth Innovation Institute, has worked in the Brazilian Amazon for more than 30 years, publishing more than 160 papers and books on the ecological processes, frontier dynamics and public policies that are shaping the region. In 2010, he extended his work to Peru, Colombia and Indonesia. A world authority on REDD and low-emission rural development (LED-R), he was previously Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center, Chief Program Officer of Environmental Conservation at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and a Lecturer at Yale University. Dan co-founded the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) in 1995, Aliança da Terra in 2004, and was a founding board member of the Round Table for Responsible Soy (RTRS) in 2005 and INOBU (Indonesia) in 2015. He served on the REDD Offsets Working Group of California and is a member of the Science Committee of Acre State’s SISA program. He was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fifth Assessment (WG2, Chapter 4). Dan holds a PhD in Forest Ecology from Yale University.
Alan Traicoff
Emergent
Allan Traicoff is a commercial strategist who has delivered customer-centric business transformation within Fortune 500 companies around the world. With over 20 years of directing sales and marketing teams, Traicoff is known across transportation and energy sectors for business innovation and alliance formation. He joined Emergent from Shell where he was working with CSOs, NGOs and channel partners to create the world’s first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) “inset” for use by corporations and airlines to reach their net-zero targets. Traicoff is based in Austin, Texas.
