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GFP Poznan COP14
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4 minutes and 4 seconds
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United Kingdom
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English
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IIED
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Isabelle Lemaire
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gfpcanopy on Sep 26, 2009
GFP Poznan COP14
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- It’s important that we make the link between forests and climate change,
- climate change and health, health and humans
- We’re feeling climate change. We’re feeling global warming.
- It has a real effect on our people.
- Forestry, it’s calculated, can be about 30% of the solution to climate change
- Forests produce air, sequester carbon, deliver water,
- so everybody feels they have a right to say they are managed.
- And we always say the forest is people’s property
- Making communities participate,
- it’s not only getting them together one afternoon and talk about a subject
- It’s more about making the local population responsible
- for the management of natural resources
- If it worked for us, it’s because the population has understood that
- by doing conservation valorization it brings them benefits,
- especially socio-economic ones.
- Women should be considered more,
- they are right-holders of these areas
- We have to combine the Western scientific thought
- and the traditional knowledge
- Indigenous people have been able to care take the land.
- The biggest threat to forests is taking people away from their land
- and drawing a circle around them and saying that they are now protected.
- We are part of the solution for the climate crisis that is taking place right now.
- Afforestation is necessary, but should not be seen as a way to offset
- people’s emissions.
- It’s important to think of forests to think of forests as carbon stocks
- that must be preserved and conserved,
- and also to think of forests as a sustainable source of bio-energy.
- There still isn’t enough emphasis to maintain
- the forests that we have as intact ecosystems,
- not just for reservoirs for carbon sequestration
- but as buffers for a number of different species.
- I’d like to see the areas that have been deforested to be reforested,
- and that to be funded by developed countries.
- Because the industrialized countries need to pay the ecological debt.
- Business can do one thing that a lot of other stakeholders can’t do,
- which is mobilize resources, and to get goods and services
- to us as consumers on time, and at the right price.
- We don’t believe we can wait to policy-makers
- and for administration to become ready.
- If we want to have big successes in this sector,
- we have to make mechanisms that make complex things
- into, apparently, easy solutions.
- It’s about a big organization with lots of noise that’s passing through, no.
- It’s actions of proximity. It’s the mechanism that’s worked most.
- We need partnerships, because on top you can’t do it all by yourself,
- and at the bottom, you can’t do it all by yourself.
- You need a coalition among all segments.
- A global partnership is really important right now in the face of
- turning centralized institutions towards local communities.
- We have seen many programs developed at the global level.
- And they come, they impose them on the communities,
- they will do what you want them to do,
- but when you are gone,
- they will go back to do the things they were doing before.
- But if you develop an initiative with them, they own it,
- it’s likely to be more sustainable.
- The process we’ve learned the most from
- from is when we’ve engaged those individuals that are the most difficult to reach,
- and perhaps we are least comfortable with
- But they are the ones that add the greatest value to our work.
- I just know that partnerships take a lot of time,
- and it’s just like a relationship
- it takes time to cultivate it, get to know your partner
- and I can’t see any formula for getting that done.
- I think that everybody does want to protect the forest.
- It’s a matter to make sure that the connections are all there
- That the partnerships are there to support what everybody wants.


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