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INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION (ITTO)

Resources for CDM ForestryProjects Development in Africa:ITTO’s Capacity BuildingProgramme

PRESENTED BY: Dr. Ma Hwan Ok, Projects Manager

International Workshop on Climate Change –Opportunities and Challenges for ForestryMitigation Projects in Sub-Saharan TropicalAfrica (2–5 Oct 2006, Accra, Ghana)

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Presentation Outline

Brief Introduction to ITTO

ITTO Experiences in A/R CDM CapacityBuilding

ITTO Window for AR CDM ProjectActivities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Upcoming Events

Concluding Remarks

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The International Tropical TimberOrganization

• an intergovernmentalorganization createdby the ITTA, 1983

• has 59 membercountries

• has a secretariat of 35people based inYokohama, Japan

• is governed by theITTC and associatedcommittees

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The ITTO mandate

Promoting sustainable development throughtrade, conservation and best-practice forestmanagement

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Producer member countries (33)

MexicoPhilippinesLiberia

Venezuela

Trinidad & Tobago

Suriname

PeruVanuatuTogo

PanamaThailandNigeria

HondurasPapua New GuineaGhana

GuyanaMyanmarGabon

GuatemalaMalaysiaDem. Rep. of Congo

EcuadorIndonesiaCote d’Ivoire

ColombiaIndiaCongo

BrazilFijiCentral African Rep.

BoliviaCambodiaCameroon

Latin AmericaAsiaAfrica

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Consumer member countries (26)

New ZealandFrance

NetherlandsFinland

EUNepalEgypt

USAKoreaDenmark

UKJapanChina

SwitzerlandItalyCanada

SwedenIrelandBelgium/Lux.

PortugalGreeceAustria

NorwayGermanyAustralia

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Donors

Financial contributions by any country ororganization.

Main donors for project work and otheractivities:

JapanSwitzerlandUnited States

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ITTO project portfolio

• provided grants worth more than US$250million

• more than 400 projects funded

• about 150 projects under implementation

• more than 500 local, full-timeprofessionals employed in the tropics

• Nearly all ongoing projects includecapacity building activities, many have atraining component

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ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Managementand Rehabilitation of Degraded and SecondaryForests (2002)

• collaboration with IUCN,CIFOR, FAO and WWFInternational

• Six workshops attendedby 103 participants from32 countries

• filling a knowledge gapin degraded forestrestoration and landrehabilitation

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ITTO Project Work related to CDM forestry

Indonesia - Promotionof the CDM in theFramework of SFM withLocal CommunitiesInvolvement

Columbia - AlternativeFinancing Model forSustainable ForestManagement in SanNicolas

Korea - International Workshop on ClimateChange and Forest Sector: Clean DevelopmentMechanism in Tropical Countries

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ITTO Project Cycle Calendar

6-11 November 2006 The 41st Session of theInternational Tropical Timber Council in Yokohama, Japan

27 November 2006 Deadline for new project proposals

5-9 February 2007 Meeting of the Thirty-third ExpertPanel for Technical Appraisal of Project Proposals inYokohama

8-12 May 2007 The 42nd Session of the InternationalTropical Timber Council in PNG

28 May 2007 Deadline for new project proposals

ITTO members may submit a project proposalrelated to national capacity building with the ITTOproject cycle (i.e. twice a year)

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ITTO Fellowship Programme

supports young and mid-career people for short-termactivities, such as participation in internationalconferences, training courses and study tours, but alsohelps people to prepare manuals

The maximum amount for a fellowship grant isUS$10,000.

Upcoming deadline8 March 2007 for the 42nd Session of the ITTC (8-12 May2007)

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Lessons learned

� Lack of capacity to design and implement sinkCDM projects

- Difficulty in the use of methodologies to definebaseline and additionality to calculate carbon potential

- Limited capacity to interact in validation,verification and certification processes

� Lack of financing for sink CDM projectsimplementation

- No seed capital to kick-start CDM project cycle

- Limited access to finance

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ITTO’s AR-CDM Project

Building capacity to develop and implementSink-CDM of the Kyoto Protocol in TropicalForestry Sector

� Implementing Agency: ITTO Secretariat

�Duration: 3 years (Nov 2005-Oct 2008)

�Budget: US$940,000

Objective:

To promote sink-CDM of the Kyoto Protocolthrough Public-Private-Partnerships, linkinghost developing countries with industrializedinvestor countries.

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ITTO’s on-going work

Guidebook for A/R CDM projectdevelopers on how to identify andformulate A/R CDM project activities.

Six regional workshops to provide trainingfor potential project developers in A/RCDM host countries

Six Project Design Documents submittedto CDM EB

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Guidebook for the formulation of A/R projectsunder the CDM

Part I is an introductionto the Kyoto Protocoland the CDM

Part II describes theconceptual andprocedural details forformulating an A/RCDM project

Part III explores thefinancing of CDMprojects

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ASEAN-ITTO Regional Workshop on Perspectives ofCDM Forestry Projects in Asia and The Pacific(Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 22-24 March 2006)

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Int’l Symposium on Trends and Prospects of ARCDM (28 Sep 2006,Seoul, Korea)

Time to initiate projects is now, but many

buyers uncertain how to deal with replacement

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Upcoming Events:ITTO Carbon Investment Forum on AR-CDM

First Carbon InvestmentForum on AR-CDM

17 October 2006

Century Hyatt, Tokyo, Japan

Target audiences:

potential investors and projectdevelopers in JapanUtilities (electricity, gas, power development),Heavy industries (Oil, petrochemical,chemical, pulp & paper, etc.), Electricappliances, Insurance, Auto makers, etc..

Brokers (Natsource Japan, CO2e.com)

Project developers (Forestry, Pulp & paper,NGOs)

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Upcoming Events (Cont’d)

6-11 November 2006

Forty-first Session of the InternationalTropical Timber Council and AssociatedSessions of the Committees in Yokohama,Japan

� Feb/March 2007

African tropical forest investment forum:issues and opportunities for investment innatural tropical forests in Accra, Ghana

� 18 May 2007

International Conference on Wood-basedBioenergy in Hannover, Germany inconjunction with 2007 LIGNA-HANNOVER

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Second ITTO Workshop on AR CDM for Sub-Saharan Africa

Details will be discussed at the PSC meetingon 5 Oct 2006

???, 2007

Accra, Ghana

Main objective:

to facilitate the formulation ofSmall Scale AR CDM PDDs

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ITTO looks for a Consultant for Africa

A short-term consultant from ITTO membercountries

Main task:

- to formulation of two PDDs for ITTO membercountries in Africa

- to support methodology development

CARBON TRADE OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICA!!

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Concluding Remarks

ITTO looks forward toconcrete recommendations of the GhanaWorkshop andpartnerships with in promoting CDM forestryprojects in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Thank you for your attention!

http://www.itto.or.jp

ma@itto.or.jp