MEDIA ADVISORY: Three Highly Contrasting Countries Join a Side Event at the UNFCCC COP23 to Broaden Scope of REDD+ to SDGs and Deliver NDC Goals

A challenge for developing countries is to design national REDD+ strategies (and the other elements of the Warsaw Framework) that will effectively and efficiently reduce net emissions while simultaneously ensuring that the other climate and non-climate services provided by forests are not adversely affected. To illustrate how this challenge has been addressed, three highly contrasting countries from the Asia-Pacific region will present their vision for REDD+ and explain how their REDD+ strategies will contribute to meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Hence, Myanmar will present progress in integrating REDD+ into the National Comprehensive Development Plan of Myanmar; Mongolia will share progress in integrating REDD+ into Green Development Strategy of Mongolia by REDD+ Focal Point of Mongolia; and PNG will update progress in integrating REDD+ into the National Strategy for Responsible Sustainable Development and Climate Change Commitments under Paris Agreement of PNG.

WHAT:	Three countries share their experiences on how REDD+ can contribute to achieve SDGs and NDC Goals
WHO:	H.E. U Ohn Winn, Minister of the Union Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation of the Union of Myanmar H.E. Tserenbat Namsrai, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Mongolia H.E. the Honorable John Pundari, Minister of Environment and Climate Change of PNG Mr. Magdy Martínez-Solimán, UN Assistant Secretary General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of Bureau for Policy and Programme of UNDP Government delegations to the UNFCCC COP, Representatives from NGOs, INGOs, CSOs and the Media
WHEN:	16 November 2017, 12:30 – 14:00 pm
WHERE:	UNDP Pavilion, Bonn Zone, Bonn, Germany
WHY:	To illustrate how a challenge for developing countries to design national REDD+ strategies has been addressed that will effectively and efficiently reduce net emissions while simultaneously ensuring that non-climate services provided by forests are not adversely affected
Organisers:	Organised by the UN-REDD Programme and FCPF Project Hosted by UNDP