Programme (Please follow the links on the agenda items to obtain presentations)

Day 1 - Monday, 21 September 2015

Room „Kleiner Saal“

Morning: Arrival

13:00-14:00 Registration and welcome coffee

14:00 – 14:30 Welcome

- Dr. Tania Rödiger-Vorwerk, Deputy Director General at Directorate 31 - Sustainable Development; Natural Resources; Economic Policy and Infrastructure, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

- Dr. Rolf Densing, Program Director Space Administration, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Introduction to the Conference Programme

- Reinhard Wolf, GIZ, Advisor, International Forest Policy (facilitator)

14:30 - 16:00

Part I: Setting the scene

Ø MRV requirements

§ according to UNFCCC (Dirk Nemitz, UNFCCC)

§ from an implementation perspective: UN-REDD (Inge Jonckheere, FAO)

Ø Global availability and coordination of satellite data for REDD+ monitoring     

(Frank-Martin Seifert, ESA/GFOI)

16:00 Coffee break and poster session

“Terrassensaal”

16:30 – 18:30

Part II: Concepts and costs of measuring and monitoring forest degradation

Ø Overview on forest degradation monitoring concepts and operational maturity - report from the GOFC/GOLD-GFOI expert workshop on forest degradation

(Prof. Dr. Martin Herold, Wageningen University)

Ø Presentation of concepts and project experiences

§ Indonesia: “Monitoring Deforestation and Forest Degradation on National and Local Level in Indonesia” (Ruandha Agung Sugardiman and Belinda A. Margono, Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia)

§ México: (Dr. Michael Schmidt, CONABIO, National Commission for Biodiversity, México)

§ Brazil: (Gabriel Henrique Lui, Ministry of the Environment, Brazil and Dalton de Morisson Valeriano, INPE, Brazil)

18:30 Dinner with poster session

“Parksaal”

21:30 End of Day 1

Day 2 - Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Room “Kleiner Saal”

8:30 Admission

09:00 – 10:00

Part II (continued): Concepts and costs of measuring and monitoring forest degradation

Ø Presentation of concepts and project experiences

§ Central America: Video.

§ FAO: “Collect Earth: an open source tool, based on freely available satellite images and Google technology, to assess LULUCF and forests trends in the UNFCCC context. The experience of a FAO capacity building project funded by the German International Climate Change Initiative”  (Danilo Mollicone, FAO)

§ SADC: (Abel Siampale, Forestry Department, Ministry of Lands, Natural Resources, Zambia). Additional Video.

10:00 – 10:15      Introduction to thematic working groups: Guiding questions

10:15 – 10:30      Coffee break

“Terrassensaal”

10:30 – 12:00      Thematic working groups

• WG I: Causes for forest degradation and their impact on the direct and indirect monitoring and measurement methods (facilitator: Kay Kallweit, Advisor, REDD Early Movers Programme, GIZ)

• WG II: Perspectives for operational and cost-efficient concepts and methods in practice, especially for countries with low capacities (facilitator: Dr. Thomas Baldauf, German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL))

• WG III: Specific needs, gaps and challenges for data and capacity building (facilitator: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn, Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, University of Göttingen, Germany)

12:00 – 13:30      Lunch

“Foyer”

13:30 – 14:00      Presentation of the results of the thematic working groups
“Kleiner Saal”

Part III: Identification of knowledge gaps and options to close gaps

14:00 – 15:30      Plenary discussion

15:30 – 16:00      Outlook, final remarks

- Simon Stumpf, Division 310 - Environment and sustainable use of natural resources; Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

- Dr. Helmut Staudenrausch, Space Administration, Earth Observation, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

16:00                    Coffee and cake

“Terrassensaal”

End of conference

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