Governors' Climate & Forests Task Force (GCF)

Governor's Climate and Forest
Taskforce: an overview from the
2012’s Chairman
Alejandro Callejas Linares
Ministry for Environment and Natural History,
Government of Chiapas, Mexico
February 2012.

pathways to forest-maintaining rural
development.
The GCF’s members encompass more than 20% of the
world’s tropical forests, including approximately 75%
of Brazil’s and more than half of Indonesia’s tropical
As you know around 20% of the World’s
opportunities, from pay-for-performance public
forests.
policy.
Since its inception, the GCF has been working to
establish the elements of high-quality, jurisdictionwide
REDD+ programs and link them to emerging
finance and carbon markets to the growing e ort to
de-carbonize agro-food supply chains. Over the past
Tropical Forests are part of the GCF
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GFC: Big Questions!
Why
GCF as a technical supporter for REDD+
initiatives.
Memorandum of Understanding with Acre
(Brasil) and California (USA).
Interest on the Work at Subnational Level ().
Common Questions, goals and tasks
Importance!
Experience
Build Pathways
Capacity Building, Information,
Cooperation, Stakeholders,
Critical Mass

Goals from the 2012 GCF Chairman (I)
• Organice the 2012’s GCF anual meeting, in San Cristobal de Las Casas,
Chiapas, México, September 2012.
• To contribute to achieve of the GCF task and goals 1-4 (Subnational REDD+
Frameworks; GCF Funds; GCF Data Base; Communications & Stakeholders
Involvement).
• Increase the support and cooperation for the capacity building and technical
assistance (readiness phase) among GCF members.
• Move forward the discusion and recomendations about policy, legal
infraestructure and economics ways (similar to the ROW work).
• To Promote in the GCF memebers include more voices about REDD+, sharing
benefits, safegards, biodiversity, indigenous participation, etc.

Goals from the 2012 GCF Chairman (II)
• To include another regions (countries) that are working and
have a interest on REDD+.
• Have a countrie coordinator for Mexico (outside the
government structure).
• Add more political will and leadership for REDD+ and the
GCF
• Have a participation on RIO+20.
• Focus goals to work on develop regional/state position
documents about REDD+, as well as strategies
• Continue with the Chiapas`s activities on CC and REDD+ for
2012 (Implement PACCCH and reduction goals;
Communication and Educative Materials; Analysis of
vulnerability –last 500 years thou paleontological information-
; REDD+ Chiapas Strategy).

Thank you !
www.gcftaskforce.org
acallejas@semahn.chiapas.gob.mx
acallejas@yahoo.com