Incentivizing savanna management: challenges and opportunities / Part 1
Tracks
Porto Room
| Wednesday, May 17, 2023 |
| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM |
| Workshop |
Details
The session will discuss:
The profile of international undertakings focusing on the status of current incentivised savanna and rainforests fire management activities and associated challenges and opportunities. The difficulties of fighting fires in tropical forests and plan actions to protect these ecosystems.
Guiding questions:
1. How to adapt existing/ongoing emission abatement methodologies to different political and socioeconomic realities, especially where there are limited public resources available and little political interest?
2. In developing countries where there are a great variety of traditional peoples and communities and land is productive, how to engage/involve these countries in national and international carbon markets driven by fire management activities without generating more conflicts or land disputes?
3. Apart from carbon, what other natural factors/elements could be measured and accounted for (with market potential) to generate credits and income from fire management?
Speaker
Livia Moura
Institute of Society, Population and Nature—ISPN, Brazil
Chair
Biography
Graduated in geography and PhD in ecology, Livia is a specialist in the Cerrado (Bazilian Savanna) biome, local ecological knowledge and integrated fire management (IFM). Currently she is employed as a technical advisor at the Institute Society, Population and Nature (ISPN) in Brasília (Federal District), Brazil, where she manages and monitors community-based projects aimed at environmental conservation and sustainability, collaborates with the agendas of IFM, sociobiodiversity productive chains, gender, environmental changes and public policies, political articulation and multisector networking.
Catherine Monagle
International Savanna Fire Management Initiative
Jeremy Russell-Smith
Charles Darwin University
Speaker: Background to Australian GHG emissions reduction experience and southern African opportunities
Biography
Jeremy Russell-Smith has 40 years of experience researching savanna fire ecology, carbon market, ecosystem services, and associated livelihood opportunities for land managers and Indigenous (Aboriginal) communities in northern Australia and neighbouring countries. Over the past 20+ years he has been involved with ongoing development of Australian Government-regulated savanna burning greenhouse gas emissions abatement, and associated carbon sequestration, methods in northern Australia. In recent years he has been involved with the development of similar methodological approaches for application in fire-prone savannas in southern Africa, the Indo-Pacific and the Americas. He gained a PhD in 1986 from the Australian National University, Canberra. He holds the position of Professor of Fire Ecology at Charles Darwin University, Darwin.
Cameron Yates
Charles Darwin University
Julien Gastaldi
Corporate Carbon
Robin Beatty
Maki Planet Systems
Speaker: Background to Carbon Markets and project implementation
Biography
Remi Duval
Speaker: Background to Carbon market offsets and Nature-Based Solutions needs of the resource sector
Biography
