UNFF Clearing House Webinar Series on Forest Financing聽
| Date: | July 10, 2025 |
| Location: | , |
| Organiser: | UNFF Secretariat |
About the event
Webinar #1 Payment for Ecosystem Services
This webinar will present a global synthesis on Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) for forests, highlighting country experiences, good practices, and implementation challenges. It will provide insights into the conditions and modalities necessary for effective PES implementation, with a focus on how the approach can be replicated in other contexts and how site-level projects can be scaled up to national-level schemes.
The session, along with future webinars in the series, aims to promote the use of economic incentives and support resource mobilization to accelerate the implementation of the United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests (UNSPF) and the achievement of the Global Forest Goals (GFGs).
Programme
Welcoming remarks:聽Ms. Juliette Biao, Director, UNFF Secretariat (3mins)
Opening Address:聽Ms. 脡liane Ubalijoro, CEO, CIFOR-ICRAF (3mins)
Facilitator:聽Ms.聽Cora van Oosten,聽Director, Capacity Development and Education, CIFOR-ICRAF
Setting the Scene:
- Concept, global聽status, positioning of PES within the other financing schemes introduced by聽Ms. Pham Thu Thuy, Flinders University (10 mins)
- Global lessons, challenges, and聽opportunities of PES by Ms.聽Beria Leimona,聽Theme Leader, Climate change, energy and low-carbon development, CIFOR-ICRAF (10 mins)
County case presentations聽(8 mins each)
- Germany: Ms. Carolin Canessa,聽Senior Researcher, Chair of Agricultural Production and Resource Economics, Technical University of Munich聽
- Indonesia: Mr. Sigit Reliantoro, Deputy, Environmental Governance and Sustainable Natural Resources, Ministry of Environment
- Costa Rica: Ms. Catalina Esquivel Vargas,聽Forest Engineer, Direction of Environmental Services of the National Forestry Financing Fund of Costa Rica
- South Africa: Mr. Christo Marais,聽Director, Praxis NR
Q&A Session
Synthesize/summaries of presentations: key messages and lessons-learned聽by Dr.聽Beria Leimona (3 mins)