 which kicked off about two years ago and we are now moving steadily towards the launch of version 1.0 of this framework in the next few months. So I'd like to take the opportunity to tell you a little bit about the objectives and goals of this initiative as well as who we're working with and how we're working and some other ways to get involved if you're interested. So I know that you've been talking already today quite a bit about deforestation and the challenges of deforestation that we're all facing globally as well as some very concrete ways it seems that those in Sweden can address these issues and so the accountability framework is really building on the work of many other initiatives and collaborating with them to look at the issue of deforestation and commodity supply chains. So the initiative is largely a response to a call and a request from companies to have greater clarity in messaging from civil society around what is expected in terms of scope and implementation of the commitments that they've made and just so to frame this a little bit better I want to show you over the next few slides some some graphics that you may be very familiar with because therefore many of our partners we're working with such as a climate focus and supply change but we know that there is an increasing number of commitments made by private companies to eliminate deforestation and human exploitation from their commodity supply chains so much so that over the past five to six years we've seen an increase leading up to almost 500 companies and almost 800 different commitments that have been made across various supply chains but especially those forest risk supply chains of palm oil, pulp paper and timber, soy and cattle in particular. However we do know that there's a very wide implementation gap at the moment so a lot of the interim milestones that were set for these commitments many of which had a target date of 2020 have not been met. We know that the definitions and standards and tools while there are many and many excellent efforts in this area are not harmonized and so there's a real lack of clarity around implementation and this limits also the ability to monitor and effectively report on progress towards commitments by companies but there's also then a lack of common metrics to track this progress and performance amongst those of us in civil society and other initiatives that work on assessment and so for example these metrics can limit accountability they can really also hinder and limit a clear message that we're sending to companies in terms of what good looks like in terms of implementation and commitments and what best practice is so for example we have various scorecard systems and assessment systems out there the example you see on the screen here is looking at a large international company that's sourcing palm oil and the way they're being rated by two different scorecards that are out there now we've hidden the names for anonymity here but for example a company may receive a high rating from one scorecard and a low rating from another being evaluated on the same behaviors and so this does create a certain amount of confusion and a lack of clarity in terms of how to really move forward in practical terms and implement commitments and credibly demonstrate progress towards them and so that leaves us where we are today where I know you've been talking a lot about these issues of deforestation human rights violations which do can persist in these supply chains it results in continued material risk for companies which is very serious in terms of not only their material and financial risk but reputational risk of course as well and overall we have still a much ambiguity about progress and outcomes and it allows for a certain amount of greenwashing potentially and lack of accountability overall so the accountability framework initiative was brought together really to an in a collaborative effort to reach consensus around what the scope and implementation monitoring and reporting against commitments can look like to accelerate progress and improve accountability in this space and so the framework itself is really a set of common definitions and norms and guidance that we've brought together that we have built through a consensus-based process with our steering group members I'll show you in a minute to bring this greater clarity and consistency and effectiveness to implementation the framework specifically will help companies to fulfill their commitments and is also a tool for other actors by clarifying good practices so we provided the critical details around setting implementation monitoring verification and reporting of supply chain commitments we're clarifying and working with the many other standards and tools and systems that are in this space and that are active to fulfill supply chain commitments so to be clear the framework itself is not a new tool nor is it looking to supersede any of the existing initiatives but rather it's looking to create that harmonization and alignment amongst all these tools and systems so that companies know and are clear on which ones to use to meet their specific commitment for this their supply chains and where we've seen there are any critical gaps in these areas we have worked together to bring to reach consensus amongst our steering group members and to bring clarity to fill those critical gaps and topics and content where those are currently lacking and all of that leading to help improve the level of consensus and alignment around ethical supply chains especially between those of us in civil society and with NGOs so now to move forward a little bit what is the initiative and what is it not because clearly there are a lot of tools and standards out there and we want to be very clear that this is a public good it is something that we're developing amongst the members of our steering committee with a lot of inputs from from many other actors and from consultations throughout the different tropical producing regions in the world we're providing clear norms and guidance but it is a framework and it is intended to provide guidance it is not another standard so it's working to align monitoring reporting and assessment initiatives and tools so to help those tools as well that companies are using to report on their progress to be clear and consistent with common definitions and metrics it's not a commercial product or service it's not a new certification program so in the sense that it is a standard it is can be used to conduct for companies to conduct their own assessments or ratings and to benchmark their performance so it's intended to be used as a tool for companies when they're setting their commitments when they're designing their implementation systems either themselves or with their different service providers and as a tool for them to benchmark their progress in terms of scope the scope of the accountability framework largely mirrors the scope of the commitments that have been taken by many companies so we're looking at deforestation and protection of other national ecosystems this includes conversion of non-forest ecosystems respect for human rights including labor rights and support for producer community livelihoods in terms of a starting a beginning scope at least we are looking at the major drivers of deforestation worldwide especially in tropical ecosystems so palm oil soy cattle the others that you see here in the middle column and then we are looking at these commodities across all of the different geographies that you see in the right hand column so beginning with South America Southeast Asia and Western Central Africa but the accountability framework would be applicable of course to other regions in the world as well and the scope of this scope really maps out through the framework through a sort of ethical supply chain journey where we set this scope for companies to be able to follow as they're setting their commitments either developing new commitments or refreshing their current commitments it provides a guidance they need when they're looking at taking action looking at implementation monitoring the verification and then also provides guidance around reporting and disclosure when they're looking to demonstrate progress so now to who is involved and who's behind this initiative it's led by a coalition of partners rainforest alliance also being one of the steering group members and as I mentioned we host the backbone team of the initiative in collaboration with the meridian institute we have two labor rights groups who joined us about six months ago social accountability international and baritay and with them we're working to build out the guidance around workers rights and the framework we have two independent experts from indonesia and Liberia and we have other NGOs as well from Ghana and brazil who are part of the coalition in addition to these larger global partners and as we've been building the framework over the past year and a half we've had over 30 organizations who work on different aspects related to supply chain and deforestation and human rights who have been contributing to the content of the framework in addition to and we've been aligning collaborating with many many other key initiatives who are critical in this space so for example we've been working with and we've ensured that the accountability frameworks guidance is aligned with the high carbon stock approach and the high conservation volume methodology we're working with the collaboration for forest and agriculture which is an initiative looking at soy and cattle supply chains in brazil parkway in argentina and they're developing very similar guidance that will be part of the accountability framework we're working with different national regional approaches such as the cocoa and forest initiative the african palm oil initiative we're beginning some work as well in colombia recently and we're working especially very importantly across the different reporting and assessment initiatives you may have seen that cdp's new forest methodology questionnaire that was released earlier this week references and is aligned with the different norms and metrics that the accountability framework has developed so we've been working very closely with all of these partners and many others for a 500 global canopy a global forest watch spot over the past year to ensure this alignment and to make sure that that these different reporting and assessment initiatives are harmonized and therefore that there can be increased clarity in this space overall in terms of seeing progress towards these commitments and then we're working with some of the responsible investment initiatives as well and increasingly looking at ways to engage on the financial institutions in that sector and of course also aligning with different certification systems including rainforest alliances but also rspo fsc and others and working closely with icl alliance and this and then finally we have a process where we are working on creation of the content of the framework consultation of the framework with different partners across the different tropical producing regions we're focused on and there has been an ongoing engagement conversation with many in the private sector throughout this process as well so we have launched a consultation period that has been running over the past 60 days or so and it's just wrapping up now from we had the first full draft of the framework released in december and we intend to now revise this over the next two months and to launch the version 1.0 of the framework on an online platform that will build from our existing website in june so please stay tuned for that you can also go to our website and subscribe for our newsletters you can follow us on twitter as well and of course we welcome any other questions or inquiries or collaborations that that you may be interested in as well i will i will stop there and see if there's any time for questions and you are welcome through our website to or through my email to reach out at any point as well thank you thank you very much adrian we have time for a short question from the audience if there is one for moving on yeah there seems to be no urgent questions at least feel free to also contact adrian or talk to marcus shaffer who's the local representative for rainforest alliance who will be with us in the afternoon as well probably can answer some of your questions thank you very much and again adrian and maybe a round thank you very much thank you so much again for this opportunity and i wish you all the best for the rest of your meetings today thank you thank you so much for joining us thank you so next up is myron bestas lima postdoc at showers and also heavily involved in the work that trace is doing here at stock on my right with this too so myron the floor is will be yours soon the floor is already mine the floor is yours soon the screen will be as well so thank you all again for coming to our event it's very good to be able to to present on this topic it's the first presentation actually that i gave after having done some field work in brazil at the end of last year after we had our elections so and as you can see i have this very modest unambitious topic coverage to go through in 10 minutes uh but the idea obviously is not to exhaust any of those topics but rather to give a more horizontal presentation showing to you how these different elements belong to a bigger picture and of course it has to start with this since insights from brazil is one of the one of the points i've been invited to to talk about i mean the most critical factor on the ground there has been the election results and this starts on the first of january of an administration that was elected on a very aggressive anti-conservation campaign i would even go as far as arguing that we wouldn't even have an environment ministry if it weren't for european screaming at the end of last year uh that eventually filtered to to the years of that of that gentleman our minister of environment was actually the last one to be appointed in it up to the last minute we didn't know if we would have one or not uh and what has started to happen is we all know that brazil had become a success story of the tackling of the efforts to tackle deforestation and that was perhaps best represented by what's abbreviated as pepice dumb which is the plan for protection and for prevention and combating deforestation of the amazon that started in 2004 and uh with domestic and for foreign economic assistance it started improving enforcement monitoring capabilities actions on the ground and a lot of that is starting to be watered down i mean now from this past two months we've had the laxist in terms of actions from the environmental authorities has been the weakest start since 95 and that's not in vain i mean they're cutting personnel and and now there is a gag order on on public servants from the environmental authorities meaning that since i think two weeks ago they're no longer authorized to speak to the media without going through the politically appointed people in the ministry anymore and so forth another major move has been to merge or pretty much make it disappear the indigenous people's agency into the ministry of agriculture which is curious if you read the news about it because even the agribusiness lobbyists were surprised they're like yeah we were expecting some you know that perhaps it would be relocated somewhere but this has been too good to be true in the ministry of agriculture wow it's it's you laugh because it's a bit tragicomic and now there is on the table this idea of a conciliation council that would actually approve or not environmental violations detected on the ground and of course that would be composed by a multi ministerial buddy that would be you know friendly enough to perhaps revise some of the some of the environmental funds fines so that's that's more or less the context and we have to be very sober about it meanwhile if we are to look at the numbers beyond the political context this is what started to happen this is from the latest report latest annual report of that program that I mentioned before these are the levels of deforestation the actual of the amazon and where we should be according to our own climate policy in brazil where we need to be by 2020 and if you see it was like a walk in the park up to here and then we have the impeachment here and agribusiness became much stronger and in 2018 it was the first time that it actually started to creep back up beyond our targets so what appeared to be so easy now risks becoming a failure that's again the status that's where we are so now starting my my tour of topics lenda writes is an important one that often get forget gets forgotten i mean not the least because here in europe the debate is dominated by downstream players who are more involved in market relations with the actors on the ground there than with public policy and land policy is particularly complicated i think anywhere especially if it's not your country it's it easily becomes mind-boggling and by no means i'm going to exhaust brazilian land policy here but one thing i find very important to highlight is the role of indigenous people and i'm glad that this has been brought up this morning but just to add some numbers to it about a third of the amazon carbon stocks within brazil are within indigenous lands they're about 14 of the whole country a lot of the amazon in it isn't it therefore the greedy eyes of those who are interested in continuing land use change because of course i mean do not kid yourselves into thinking that there are no powerful interests behind such powerful drivers and their eyes are already shining into gobbling up those lands there has been some precedent of that of attempts a few years before there was a constitutional amendment project number two two hundred fifteen it's it still remains to be seen whether to be seen whether they will try to resuscitate that one or to put a new one on the ground that would basically reopen the discussion on all indigenous lands in brazil and congress would have the power to ratify them or not which of course is very scary given that we have i think now one for the first time in history in brazil one indigenous person as an mp and you may guess how many agribusiness representatives are there they're the most overrepresented sector in brazil when it comes to to the parliament and one of the things they want to do so that you become aware of this is to do what has been happening with other traditional populations in the country because the indigenous peoples enjoy quite a lot of soft power in terms of support around the world there are un bodies you know connected to supporting indigenous people around the world and so forth their legal rights are much stronger but we have for instance traditional communities that come from former runaway slaves and that maintain some forms of of african culture in there the kilombolas they're far more of a more vulnerable with the idea that has been applied to take their lands has been to avoid collective land titles but rather to give them individual land titles and because these are poor people they usually don't manage to do much with their land therefore comes a nice man to them like hey i give you a lot of money and you give me this land you're not doing anything with it anyway so why do you want it you can move to the city that's the place to be you know your kids want to move there anyway many of them are hoping to do that with indigenous people and you can i bet you can expect over the coming four years and i hope it will be only for a lot of lawfare on that topic anyway i took more time on that because some of the other topics have already been covered in the previous presentations for the past 10 to 15 years we've been perhaps a bit fixated too much with certification i think clearly there is some role to play there but clearly it's not going to be sufficient to take us very far when it comes to soy for instance it has never really taken off it remains very small as a niche market and we've had a mushrooming of different certifications that not only have shown to confuse consumers but also are often weaker and the demand has never really picked up sufficiently so we may have to rethink this again it's not to discard certification but the need to go beyond it now i think is as clear as it gets the zero deforestation commitments have been talked about i'm really keen on finding out how come sweden is not yet in the amsterdamic declaration given that some countries i think italy joined afterwards so there is room and trace has has been there during some assessment showing that the companies that made such commitments they're still exposed to the same level of deforestation risk and i'm not saying here that it's you know on purpose we don't care but tracing that is is is challenging and then when i was looking for some visuals i came across this which was funny uh clearly it has nothing to do with deforestation or with the environment but it has to do with exercising but yes i mean how can you make a commitment without a plan and without putting it into practice it sounds like that whole thing of i'll start a diet on monday but you don't really get started with the difference that in that case if you don't start it's not you who suffer it's others and then your motivation may not be too high supply train transparency is there i'm not going to take too too much time on this because i think most of you already know trace and i'm happy to talk more about it many of the colleagues here at the sci work a lot with this kind of traceability tool and with the time i've got just some final notes so that you can take them home transparency has improved significantly over the past five to ten years traceability tools uh satellite monitoring capability so the technology has improved tremendously but when it comes to the policy and governance that should step up their game to be able to you know to innovate and to accompany those capabilities that have improved we're still falling short falling short accountability as a must as we learned from the previous presentation but it's still not there because transparency doesn't lead to accountability automatically we need other things to happen we need we and we have seen i must acknowledge some governance initiatives that are more innovative some groupings of concerned actors on swedish level on european level also in brazil such as the sejado working group but it needs to go on and finally as i always like to remark we need to engage beyond the chain if we think of beef or or soy it's not only talking to those specific producers that you will get somewhere you need to understand those landscapes where you're supplying from as complex systems both in ecological terms and in human terms when it comes to the social environment to the politics of it sometimes you might get a better result by let's say supporting these folks who may be on the front line of uh of the arc of deforestation then by simply trying to convince the vested interests not to deforest so think of that and keep our systems approaching mind thank you and next up Beatrice just going to talk on finance Beatrice is the executive director of the global economic dynamics and biosphere program at the royal swedish academy of sciences so welcome Beatrice you can take one of those no the clicker thingy me i'll stand here i won't be so mobile it's okay um hello everyone um i'm gonna give a very brief don't worry about it a very brief uh run through of some research that we have been doing over the course of the last few years and Alice has been doing a lot of it as well as in the room so she can help me answer questions um and it's about trying to what we call identified sleeping financial giants so this links quite nicely to the previous talks because it's i totally agree that we have focused a lot on the supply chains and the corporate actors in that supply chain um as well as the markets and the niche markets that certification schemes or so have taken catered to but um the financial actors that uh support the corporate activities along the entire supply chain of many of these deforestation drivers are also important to engage so that's what we've been trying to do a little bit um and this is a report i'll show um i'll give you the qr code the in the end but this is the report we put out in september last year which was geared very much based on our research and geared towards the financial sector to start to think about some of these issues now our take on this we have not come from the deforestation kind of supply chain uh perspective we came at this more from climate stability and tipping points and we have had sort of two impetus behind this work one is that the stability of the earth's climate system depends not only on greenhouse gas emissions reduction which is what you the standard debate out there at the moment and of course greenhouse gas emissions reductions is fundamentally important but what's not discussed so much is that there are certain believed to be certain tipping elements in the planet regions which if tipped could actually escalate global warming quite significantly and quite fast and uh forests play a role there i'm going to show you in just a minute so the impetus is to actually get onto the agenda the fact that bolstering the resilience of some of these key biomes and regions of the planet is instrumental and finance has a role to play um the second impetus behind this is of course then to identify these financial actors with the power to maybe lead a transformation or at least push us in the right direction fast because there's a lot of leverage power behind capital as we all know today's society um i'm just going to show this very quickly i don't want to get into a lengthy thing about climate stability and tipping points but just to note that when when we talk about this it's fine as i often get this comment yeah well i'm you know these are what the curves look like okay this is from 2013 but it still looks more or less the same in the recent reports and it looks like incremental change and surely we can adapt to this so really what's the the issues we are trying to reduce and then i borrow from will stephan who's one of the key earth system scientists behind some of these thinking on tipping elements and he likes to put like let's let's put this ipcc map in or curves in relation to just even 2000 years back you see the roman empire there and you see this is what it looks like so this is not incremental change we're talking about something fundamentally different from what we have seen before and that this this change in temperature that's projected is uh fundamentally different and way outside of the natural envelope of variability what's more is that um earth system scientists believe that somewhere after two degrees and we're already heading well towards one and a half as you know unfortunately but somewhere beyond two degrees maybe up to four there are a set of these tipping elements in the earth system that could be triggered we don't know exactly where there's a lot of uncertainty around this but if they are triggered that could as i said escalate a whole set of domino effects um this is a figure from a paper that came out in last year which uh made a big splash because in some circles this is of course controversial there's our big uncertainties linked to this but i'm only flashing it here to show you that here are some of the these are the tipping elements that earth system science has now identified as probably very likely to exist and these are the temperatures at which they're very likely to tip or get triggered now two points to make with this figure is that oh yeah there we go is that forests play a major role here so here is a role for why deforestation starts to become intimately linked to climate which is beyond just the fact that they are carbon sink uh and uh the other thing is that these temperatures you see the yellow and the red and whatever they don't account for deforestation that's also a problem and i'm going to show you a slide why um i'm not going to get into this because i realize now after i just threw the slide in that you're all familiar with this how the amazon gets its water and what and what maintains it but we all know that it's already climate change is already affecting this together with deforestation we've seen large diebacks and we've seen large lots of fires as well threatening this particular bio um so what um what will and others have put together and carlos nobre is is intimately connected to this as well is the fact that if we look at deforestation and how this links to this tipping dynamic and the amazon potentially tipping and becoming really a promoter of climate instability rather than instability is that there's a tipping point around about 40 percent of original forest covered is clear but that's if you don't consider climate change and there is already climate change happening as you know um if you have consider only climate change then a three to five degree temperature increase is believed to sort of trigger amazon tipping into the savannah but the problem is that both of these are occurring at the same time and if you put them together uh the paris two target uh would reduce allowable deforestation to around about 25 percent at the most and you probably already know this but in brazil we're approaching 20 percent of original forest cover loss at the moment which is rather scary we are close to a potential tipping point here we don't know exactly where and if we look at paris commitments of three degrees celsius which we really don't want to go there but just ponder that we were then that would reduce the allowable deforestation that we would be allowed to have not to tip this to nearly zero and clearly we're not on the good trajectory as you showed in that sense um what was it gonna say here let me just consult my notes um well just that um i think the way that we approach this to try and link financial the financial sector to this is we picked these two forest biomes the boreal forest and the amazon because these were economic activities to which you can clearly link uh the financial sector you can't necessarily link the financial sector to melting arctic ice sheets for example that's too indirect but when it comes to forest there are very clear economic sectors that you can actually start with and what we did was a very kind of simple and straightforward method which was looking at the key economic sectors that are driving the soya and beef being two of them but i know it's not the only one um then looking at the key economic actors and in fact we have used and relied very largely on trace data as well and then uh looking at this enormous consolidation in these segments in the initial in the traders in this section as you know so and then we took some of those key economic actors and we've tried to trace the financial resources that they are relying well starting with equity as this first stage because debt is very very difficult to get your hands on that means loans corporate loans and we've come up with a set of investors we we were doing this to try to see are there some financial actors that are basically ubiquitous in all of these forest regions so we weren't just focusing on the amazon and we wanted to have sort of keystone actors we've called them in other sectors in the fishing industry we wanted to see if there were keystone financial actors that by virtue of changing how they do things could also have a trickle down effect quite fast in multiple different domains and so we came up with this list of 15 i'm not going to bother showing you them because the thing with this is that while some of them stay the same this is there's turnover of course and where they invest and so in their portfolio so the 15 in and of themselves are not that interesting but what i can say is that even if we redid this analysis today two years later you would have some of the really big investors would be more or less the same and among them are the three to five large passive investors in the us so like the vanguard state street black rock and so on and we can talk more about how if we could get those kinds of actors involved what difference that could make but they're very tricky to get to you so when we then the message that we've tried to put to this sector from our research has been okay earth system tipping points represent major systemic risks for the financial sector should we get this cascading effect that's not just an issue for for us local in in brazil or elsewhere this is the systemic issue that will affect escalate global warming and has systemic effects for the entire financial sector especially for many of these actors that are so called universal owners which means that they're invested not just in one sector but in the entire economies through their portfolios and that climate change mitigation is about greenhouse gas emissions reduction yes but also building resilience of these key ecosystems and processes to buffer already ongoing change and to prevent them from tipping and in particularly in these forest forested domains and in the amazon and the way that we've engaged so far is we've taken this kind of thinking and tried to have dialogues with the financial sector we ran one in Stockholm in june 2017 where we had a lot of the swedish actors like opera fundena and the swedish church but also some of the big banks in europe like HSBC and a few others a year later when our research was a little bit more mature we presented this in london we ran a similar dialogue together with umpri at their london offices with all or not all say like 30 of their signatories and to also get them to think about okay what can we do with this and then more recently about two weeks ago we ran a similar dialogue focusing on the asian investment sectors in tokyo and at the moment i would say that our is the focus has really been on just trying to transfer some knowledge to up the understanding and the increasing the awareness of these kind of non-linear dynamics for the financial sector and also to link for them deforestation issues to climate issues which have not linked as far as they're concerned and how they think about these issues to date i would say at least the broad majority and there is still a gap and lots to be done when it comes to now yeah i'm finishing this is the last one when it comes to saying right what do we do about this and how do you take this kind of understanding this kind of knowledge and actually make it into something that's going to change something on the ground and that's a space that i think we're doing some work on that but it's a big space to be filled to translate this knowledge into as i said something that's directly usable for asset managers on a day-to-day basis when they go to screen where they are to allocate their resources and how to assess investment opportunities so and i think that's maybe linked to some of the talks that i heard earlier today about it becomes very tangible what kinds of forest policies should you be promoting to to the asset managers when they go to tick what or how they should engage with corporate boards because a lot of this happens through engagement with boards what kinds of a forest station what kinds of deforestation reforestation and and what and all these nitty gritty details that we personally i don't have that knowledge but that i think is very much the next step and of course without traceability none of this is really going to be feasible either because financial actors don't have the resources to go and check on the ground they rely to a largest and on accountability benchmarking and traceability and be able to trust that by a certification being just one so i'll stop there and if you're interested the you'll see the webpage there and the report with the qr which you can just download thank you very much thank you so we have one final presentation before the group discussions i'm not sure about uh seconded from sida as the force your officer at feo before you take the floor and while you set up the presentation uh maria will give the floor to toby gardener for one minute to say word on trace so we stuck afternoon everyone um i had a long standing competing agenda but just building on what my room was saying and linking to the end of bares presentation um to give people a bit of an update trace is now moving into a second phase traces of supply chain transparency uh information platform that my room was was referring to and just so you have an idea what we're doing we started in brazilian soy and we've been working on that extensively for the last few years and we've got three pillars to our new strategy we're funding from the norwegian government and the more foundation and one is extrapolating trace to new contexts particularly soy in latin america in other countries in argentina in paraguay also beef in paraguay and in brazil and also palm oil in indonesia and quite a few other commodities including shrimp probably indonesia and ecuador the second pillar is to be developing the platform in many more ways to make it more accessible and to make it more relevant and more useful um so feedback on how you may if you are and have or intend to use traces always very welcome and the third pillar is doing a lot more analysis and curation and research on those data both ourselves and with partners so another pitch is if you do have ideas um and interests about ways in which you might want to use trace data then of course do get in get in touch with us and i'll leave it at that thank you do we thank you uh my name is anna chervar and i'm been seconded from uh sida to uh food and agriculture organization fo since uh nearly three years back and i'm working in the red plus program and uh thank you for got the opportunity to brief present what we are doing at fall so uh i would like to show how agroforestry and red plus can reduce the deforestation and improve livelihoods so uh as mentioned before drivers of deforestation uh agriculture is a main driver and how to address this and the paris agreement is not uh not only about greenhouse gas emissions from uh and to reduce the temperature it's also to secure food security and agriculture production when climate change occur and in the national uh dirt mine the contributions that was mentioned before uh in the tropical countries 85 percent uh mention uh agriculture and land use and land use change and forestry as one of their uh uh measure to uh uh in india and disease and also in the sg's it's very central from uh from fao's perspective uh to end hunger end hunger uh objective two and also 14 15 and some of them fao is directly responsible to report on as well so in the agriculture and forestry nexus because as i have as a title you must think also outside the forest to to come to the key problem here so it's uh you have to increase or maintain forest cover but also to secure uh food food security so um it's it's a combined where you had to find alice uh in a land use planning or landscape approach and also agroforestry uh we we are uh investigating now how we can combine agroforestry and red plus and in the red plus strategies agroforestry is often a component that is one of the solutions even if agroforestry's role is twofold depending on uh the definition if it's forests or forests or not and in the indian disease more than 40 percent explicitly uh mentioned agroforestry as one of the contribution uh just a refreshment of your minds red plus is a stands for reducing emissions from the forest station and forest degradation and then the plus is sustainable management of forests and conservation and enhancement of forest and carbon stocks so first it was red and then it was red plus and it's been an ongoing program since 10 years back so last year it was a celebration for red plus and it's also uh studies done what has been achieved during this 10 year period and uh yes to to make it very brief the expectation was very high and we in in somewhere between but i still think red plus can play an important role in this work uh yes here is oh there it was really it's more to say that red plus it's uh under the u and f triple c and then it's uh different components that is uh so it's four pillar in the red plus program so the countries has to got these pillars in their red plus so it must be a red national strategy it's about safeguard national forest monitoring system or forest reference emission level and uh in the beginning of this period it was mostly in the readiness phase and now many countries are moving into implementation and and then it's going to be more exciting i think then you come to more operation and few are also achieving into a result based actions yes this is uh that where fau works in a red plus perspective so the countries that is working with red plus can be even bigger because this is from a fau perspective and the red plus the un red program that started first was the free un agencies uh fau un dp or un f and now red plus can be a donor combined by the uh jeff and also green climate fund and it's it's a combination by different funding and forest carbon partnership and and so so it's a more conglomerate funding and to identify win-win solutions agriculture forestry fau in in the as emily mentioned before the commission of forests so 2016 the team for for this year was to to find the agriculture and forestry working hand in hand to find the solutions but and after that now i'm working in a study i should say to find such solutions on a case from different countries so for example cot de voir there you have more uh data driven uh combinations to get a better knowledge of land use both from agriculture and forestry side to to set into in the position of climate change so it can also be it should be said that the red plus also achieved a lot of capacity building in countries as such and for gana the cocoa for forest red plus program is uh in in a line where the red the mdc is the red plus strategy and it's incorporated cost uh the forestation is very high it's two percent in the countries and the cocoa production stands for one third of uh the export so it's a very important community so this is a this is also an initiative where the private sector is involved from from gana so and rwanda i mentioned it for the agro forestry they in their plan forest in this investment program they will plant uh free food and more than 75 percent in the country will be planted by trees agro forestry mainly and it's it's very ambitious uh objective to set uh so agro forestry is an important part for land rest land restoration there and this is more to show that in a wider perspective uh fau is also working in more that been raised here also with communities and uh tenure and more private sector engagement so it's broader than the area i presented here and increasingly uh red plus actions is very connected to the mdc's uh the country's mdc's yes uh yes uh future uh it will be more cross sectorial to identify solutions where a combination from food security and forest cover so it's my main message yes thank you and further information on our website i also put some brochures on on the back where you can see more how what we are doing and so thank you yes sure for sure thank you um i just want to thank a few people the live audience for being with us we will go into group discussions but connect with us if and we will share the outcomes of the groups and after each presentation i should have thanked the the speakers with some nice chocolate so so you can come up here and you can uh share with the group if you want to have friends there will be a feaky in the afternoon as as well and before i hand over to mattine we we are a bit behind but well i have promised um because there are many different initiatives going on that you can discuss more in the groups but i promised one initiative uh one minute um the soy dialogue in in sweden so we will show one of the slides to come up here yes yes are we still okay we're still there okay so one minute thank you very much uh hello everyone my name is uh hana skogi i work for an organization called axe foundation and for you that doesn't know us we're an independent non-profit organization working with initiatives and projects to accelerate innovations and projects on sustainability um we also are the coordinators of the swedish soy dialogue which is an initiative that was founded in 2012 by wwf um Lantman and Arla axe food among a couple of other organizations uh wwf has been the coordinator up until last year when we took over the responsibility to lead the work with the swedish soy dialogue and the dialogue is a cross industry collaboration between swedish feed companies swedish food producing companies swedish retailers and association organizations um the network was started for two reasons both to highlight the connection between the problems of soy production and swedish food production and consumption but also to contribute to the development of sustainable produced soy there are other similar initiatives in other european countries but the swedish soy dog is as of today at least the most shining star that has come the furthest today the network consists of approximately 50 companies and organizations you see them here on the map so it includes all the big retailers the big uh uh dairy companies the big feed companies and so on and um all these companies are doing a commitment when joining the network and the commitment uh by signing the commitment the members ensure that all soy that has been used directly or indirectly uh which means through the soy feed given to uh animal um for meat and dairy products is sustainably uh produced um the commitments includes both animal products but also food products for um human consumption including soy and today the commitment covers the company's private labels and it's a hundred percent voluntary and the network meets two times a year both to learn from each other but also to contribute and collaborate on the issues concerning soy and uh yeah so very shortly this is an example of how the private sector is collaborating on the soys around the issues around soy today and of course as of today it's forced the foremost business network but we are really keen on collaborating with you guys and I look forward to the dialogue the group dialogues now and also we have a website which is soya.sc if you want to read more and also i'm here during the group discussion so if you have further questions i'm available thank you very much okay now we've got plenty food for thought from all these presentations so so the idea now is bring that to our group discussions we will try to focus on this question and so what steps can swedish actors take to reduce deforestation uh and and if you come up with a lot of good suggestions then feel free to think about sort of okay why is it this happening what's the big sort of bottlenecks or challenges we're facing in order to to step up actions and what could we potentially do to try to get through that to get over that um where as Maria said we are a bit behind schedule uh so i suggest that we start to