Purpose

• Highlighting the importance of global forest cooperation through REDD+ under the Paris Agreement and sharing international efforts and case studies of REDD+ implementation.
• Discussing measures to activate REDD+ projects within the Paris Agreement framework to achieve national greenhouse gas reduction targets (NDCs).
• Deliberating on the role and significance of tropical carbon sinks as key carbon reservoirs in the era of the climate crisis.
• Discussing the necessity and introduction of the “REDD+ Operating Standard” for the activation of REDD+ in Korea.

Key Participants

• Song Hee Nam, Director General, Korea Forest Service
• Christopher Martius, Team Leader of the Climate Change, CIFOR-ICRAF
• Soon Jin So, Team Leader of the Forest Climate Industry Division, KoFPI
• Yeji Park, Researcher, KMU-FCG
• Nicklas Forsell, Senior Research Scholar, IIASA
• Andreas Reumann, Head of the Independent Evaluation Unit, GCF
• Sue Kyung Lee, CEO, CYCLOPS MRV Inc.
• Barnabas Bago, National Program Coordinator, MECDM, Solomon Islands
• Hyun-Ah Choi, Senior Researcher, Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea
• Chul-Hee Lim, Professor, KMU-FCGS
• Yong Ju Lee, Researcher, KMU-FCGS
• Jee Soo Park, Researcher, KMU-FCGS