Submitted by
senguptas
on Mon, 11/18/2019 - 09:38
General Information
Resolution
46473
Period covered
Activities to implement this Resolution from Activity Reports
| Relevant operative para(s) of Res/Rec | Activities Overview | Description | Status | Action |
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| Scientific/technical activities | Given the relevance of forests at a large scale to the Paris Climate Agreement, SFI Staff conducted a preliminary estimate of terrestrial carbon on SFI forests in the United States, and initiated a project in collaboration with partners to develop a more precise methodology to estimate carbon storage and sequestration rates (not including forest products) on managed forests in the U.S. A preliminary carbon assessment for some Canadian areas is currently being modeled using remote sensing data, with plans to expand the analysis to the rest of Canada. Forests certified to the SFI Forest Management Standard now constitute nearly 150 million ha in the United States and Canada. | On-going | Full activity report | |
| Policy influencing/advocacy | At COP21, I spent the first day at a meeting of hundreds of delegates from the developing countries; 2 degrees was not even considered to be a option; they were all advocating that the rise in temperature should be well below on 1.5 degree The fossil fuel lobby was very prominent; perhaps that was the reason that there was not one reference to fossil fuels in the document. In the press room there were multiple excellent scientific presentations that sadly did not seem to influence the drafting of the document; Their presentations stressed the urgency which seemed to be ignored in the negotiating room. The IUCN resolution claims to support the agreement because it mentioned nature-based solutions. |
On-going | Full activity report |
Actors involved from Activity Reports
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Challenges / lessons learned from Activity Reports
External link(s)
Report status
Published
I. IUCN Constituencies implementing this Resolution
IUCN Members
No other Members are/have been involved
IUCN Commissions
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IUCN Secretariat
Yes
II. Implementation
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Capacity-building
Convene stakeholders/Networking
Education/Communication/Raising awareness
Field activities
Policy influencing/advocacy
Scientific/technical activities
Describe the results/achievements of the activities
IUCN continued to substantially advance its work on promoting nature-based solutions to climate change in 2019. Particular highlights were the explicit inclusion of a dedicated track on 'nature-based solutions' in the UN Climate Summit convened by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York in September 2019. IUCN was part of a core group that directly supported the co-chairs of this track, China and New Zealand, in delivering a successful NBS outcome at the Summit, including a 'Nature-based Solutions for Climate Manifesto'. IUCN also successfully launched a new report on 'Nature-based Solutions in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) at the Summit, which was widely welcomed. NBS also received unprecedented attention and recognition at UNFCCC COP25 in Madrid, including in number of high-level UN events, which IUCN was actively involved in, and also in the main formal COP decision. Solid progress was also made by IUCN in advancing ecosystem-based mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk reduction on the ground across the world, through its multiple initiatives and projects, including, for example, through the Bonn Challenge. IUCN also published landmark assessments in 2019 that highlighted the risks posed by climate change on species, for ocean deoxygenation, and on World Heritage Site glaciers, which underscored the need for more ambitious and urgent global action on GHG emission reductions. The Climate Change Task Force of the IUCN's Council's Programme and Policy Committee also met at regular intervals to provide feedback on how IUCN's future engagement on climate change could be further strengthened, going forward.
Challenges/obstacles encountered in the implementation of this Resolution and measures taken
A lot of important climate-related work is being successfully done by different IUCN programmes, members and commissions. However, despite increased coordination, overall aggregation still arguably remains sub-optimal, considering the scale of the climate crisis, due to limited dedicated capacity for engagement on this issue within the organization.
Future actions / activities needed for the implementation of this Resolution
Full and ambitious implementation will require sustained collaboration and coordination across different parts of IUCN, and enhanced institutional investment in terms of strengthened core capacities for ensuring the same.
Are these actions/activities planned?
No
III. Status of implementation
Implementation status of this Resolution
Underway: implementation well-advanced