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Comment 27 for Comment on the potential for international, sector-based offset credits in the Cap-and-Trade Program (sectorbased2015-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Juan Carlos
Last Name: Jintiach
Email Address: juancarlos.jintiach@gmail.com
Affiliation: COICA - Coordinator of the Indigenous Or
Subject: Letter from COICA re: Sector-based offsets
Comment:
Dear California Air Resources Board, I am writing on behalf of COICA to thank CARB for the opportunity to participate in California’s process to develop regulations to include jurisdictional REDD+ offsets in the Cap and Trade Program. We congratulate ARB on the productive and inclusive workshop held in Sacramento, California on October 28, 2015 to discuss this issue, which is of critical importance to the 400 indigenous communities and ethnicities across Amazonia that we represent. We believe that REDD programs like the one proposed by California will not only lead to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, but provide essential economic benefits to our communities and help protect the forests on which our livelihoods and cultures depend. We would like to express support for the steps outlined in the Staff White Paper and the frameworks developed by the REDD Offset Working group (ROW) to ensure high quality offsets from jurisdictional programs. We are supportive of the jurisdictional approach to protecting tropical forests that is being pioneered by the members of the Governors’ Climate and Forests task force (GCF), and recognize that the Brazilian states of the GCF are global leaders in developing robust jurisdictional REDD+ programs with strong social safeguards and benefit-sharing mechanisms. Our partnership with the GCF is an important mechanism to continue to develop these safeguards through inclusive processes, and share lessons across the GCF regions. The REDD+ program proposed by California could provide real and tangible benefits to our communities through connections to these programs. In this sense, COICA has developed Amazon Indigenous REDD+ - RIA which includes the worldviews and perspectives of the Amazon peoples in order to enable an adequate REDD+ process in the indigenous territories. The UNDRIP and other international tools are included in the RIA framework due to the importance of these for the Indigenous peoples to access to benefits. We offer our continued support to ARB staff as they continue to lead on climate change through the development of this important program. Thank you once again for including us in your process, and your thoughtful consideration of our perspectives. COICA is hopeful that this process can continue such that the necessary linkages can be made by 2017, in time for the third compliance period of the Cap and Trade Program. Sincerely, Juan Carlos Jintiach Technical Secretary of COICA
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Original File Name: ARBletter_COICA.pdf
Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2015-11-16 15:38:18
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