Asia-Pacific Workshop on Reduced Impact Logging

Objectives

The objectives of the workshop are to:

1. review the challenges and opportunities for the application of RIL in the emerging forest carbon economy, including REDD+;
2. review current knowledge on forest carbon measurement, reporting and verification and monitoring related to forest degradation and different management practices;
3. review the potential magnitude of financial costs and benefits of applying RIL in a forest carbon economy; and
4. develop strategies to encourage increased application of RIL as a key mechanism for improving forest management and reducing carbon emissions under REDD+.

Concept note and agenda

List of participants

Proceedings

Presentations

• Can REDD+ promote RIL in Malaysian tropical forests?
• Current methods for monitoring emissions and removals from forest harvesting operations
• Forest carbon accounting under the Kyoto Protocol and REDD+
• Is there carbon to be made from RIL
• Opportunities and challenges in RIL Carbon: Experiences from Sabah, Malaysia
• Reduced impact logging in Sabah
• RIL and Carbon emissions
• RIL: Policy and implementation
• Role of forest certification in promoting greater uptake of reduced impact logging and implications of REDD+ for forest certification programs
• Strategic engagement in carbon stewardship
• Twelve years of RIL: the TFF-Indonesia experience