Oslo Climate and Forest Conference Statement

Rainforest Foundation UK, in collaboration with many other international NGOs, civil society and indigenous peoples organisations have issued a statement ahead of the Oslo Climate and Forest Conference which kicks off this week on May 27. The aim of the conference is to agree how the initial funding for a proposed global deal on reducing deforestation (called REDD, or reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) would work. The statement signed by an international grouping of over forty organisations calls for the recognition of indigenous peoples and civil society rights, the full and effective participation of all stakeholders and for fast-start financing to tackle the root causes of deforestation such as poor forest governance and insecure land rights.

Attending on behalf of RFUK will be Simon Council, Executive Director, and Nathaniel Dyer, Policy Advisor on Climate Change and Forests, for the three-days of meetings in Oslo, as organised by the Rainforest Foundation Norway. These meetings will bring together representatives of forest peoples already experiencing the benefits and challenges of this proposed REDD scheme at a national level.

We hope that governments from the North and South will take the comments made in the statement into account when drafting the Interim REDD+ Partnership Agreement in Oslo.

The Statement can be downloaded below.

The official Oslo Climate and Forest Conference website can be found HERE.

An earlier statement on Paris-Oslo process can be found HERE or HERE.

› Download the Oslo Climate and Forest Conference Statement here