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Watch the ROW MRV Workshop

Watch the ROW MRV Workshop

Stanford University

February 5, 2013

This workshop discussed the key environmental considerations in the development of a REDD offset program including the establishment of reference levels against which emissions reductions should be measured, systems to monitor, report and verify avoided deforestation and degradation, and ways to ensure that programmatic emissions reductions are in addition to those that would have otherwise taken place.

Watch the ROW Safeguards Workshop

Watch the ROW Safeguards Workshop

University of California at Davis

March 26, 2013

This workshop brought together some of the world’s leading experts in social and environmental safeguards as well as some of the local community leaders from Brazil and Mexico to discuss the types of systems that work, which don’t, and how to build off the existing ROW recommendations for developing successful programs.

Watch the ROW Linkage Workshop

Watch the ROW Linkage Workshop

University of California at Los Angeles

April 5, 2013

This workshop explored the potential benefits and challenges of linking programs in foreign jurisdictions directed at REDD to California’s cap-and-trade program as sources of offsets. It focused on regulatory design elements and the legal and institutional mechanisms that would be required to enable California to recognize emissions reductions from jurisdictional REDD programs as offsets under California’s cap-and-trade program.