REDD-PAC annual meeting in Laxenburg

29-31 October 2012

The project held its annual meeting at IIASA headquarters in Laxenburg, Austria from 29 to 31 October 2012.Representatives from all partners (COMIFAC, IIASA, IPEA, INPE, UNEP-WCMC) participated. This three-day meeting was an excellent opportunity to jointly discuss scientific, technical and policy issues relevant to the project. In addition, all partners reported on their work progress and the events they had attended. The meeting finally lead to a time-schedule for the upcoming project year.

First results for a 'non-additional policy scenario' in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be presented at the UNFCCC COP18 in Doha in November 2012. Tentative regional results for Brazil and the Congo Basin, based on new land-use data and including the assessment of a set of relevant policy scenarios, will be available before the end of 2013.

Meeting presentations

Alexandre Ywata (IPEA) - Policy instruments and institutional arrangements into GLOBIOM

Pedro Andrade (INPE) - Strategy for tool integration

Aline Soterroni and Victor Maus (INPE) - Time series analysis