Table 12.5 Policies and Measures
to Promote Technology Transfer Between Countries |
DOMINANT PATHWAY |
POLICIES, MEASURES AND PROGRAMMES |
GOVERNMENT DRIVEN |
Multilateral Agencies (World Bank, FAO, ADB, GEF, etc) |
- Increase funding to forestry sector projects and programmes
- Funding for research on causes of deforestation and impacts of policies
- Facilitate grants and low interest loans for sustainable forest harvesting,
industrial plantations, Protected Areas, forest restoration
- Strengthen forest certification programmes
- Tax or import Duty on timber from non sustainable logged forests
- Setting up forest monitoring and verification programmes in non-Annex
I countries
- Funding for institution and human capacity building and for improving
R&D capabilities in non-Annex I countries
- GEF should include forestry in mitigation projects in its operational
programmes
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Bilateral development assistance
|
- Increase funding to forestry sector projects and programmes
- Link technology transfer to grants and concessional loans
- Facilitate grants and low interest loans for sustainable forest harvesting,
industrial plantations, Protected Areas, forest restoration
- Funding for institution and human capacity building and for improving
R&D capabilities in non-Annex I countries.
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PRIVATE SECTOR DRIVEN |
Climate Change Related Mechanisms (JI/CDM) |
- CDM potentially offers opportunity for facilitating technology transfer
in forestry mitigation and adaptation projects
- Set up and expedite monitoring and verification procedures
- Brokerage institutions to assist in preparation of proposals
|
Timber Industries |
- Financial incentives (such as tax concessions) to sustainable harvesting
of natural forests and forest plantations
- Facilitate agreements between industries in Annex I countries with
timber industries and farmer cooperatives in non-Annex I countries
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COMMUNITY DRIVEN |
International NGOs |
- NGOs could monitor timber certification and import of sustainable
timber
- Alliance for conservation and sustainable use of forests
- International verification and monitoring on logging practices and
methods
- Public awareness campaigns
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