For over 30 years governments, intergovernmental processes, NGOs and the private sector have devoted sustained attention to developing innovative policy tools aimed at reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Southeast Asia. The result has been the design, and emergence, of a plethora of initiatives from forest certification programs, to criteria and indicators for sustainable forests management, to forest legality verification, to financing for reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+). Yet growing frustrations over the pace and scale of changes led to significant advances leading up to, during, and following the Glasgow COP. These include $130 trillion committed for net zero goals, much targeted for Glasgow’s agreement on carbon and forests. Likewise, the EU has followed up with a regulation on “no deforestation” that attempts to reinforce similar ESG commitments to conserve forests. This panel is design to make sense of, and assess the potential of this never before seen attention, interest, and financing, for improving forest management in general, and Southeast Asia in particular. What is the potential and pitfalls of these new efforts? How can we learn from the past to design effective solutions?
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