The fourth Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change took place in London, England, on 6 April 2010.

The meeting was attended by approximately 100 representatives of governments, indigenous peoples, civil society, investors and business, and conservation and development organizations from around the world. Participants convened in four panel sessions throughout the day, reviewing the outcomes of the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the upcoming UNFCCC meeting in April in Bonn, Germany, and addressing the outcomes of the International Conference on the Major Forest Basins, held on 11 March 2010 in Paris, France, and its anticipated follow-up meeting in May in Oslo, Norway. Participants also discussed options and recommended principles and criteria for proposed interim and global architectures for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, plus conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+), and focused on implications of the proposed architectures on adoption and implementation of standards, safeguards and recourse mechanisms. The Dialogue concluded by identifying critical issues to be addressed and next steps to be taken in Oslo, Bonn and at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico. The fifth Dialogue is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC, in May 2010 and will focus on operationalizing standards and safeguards, and ensuring adequate recourse mechanisms across the suite of REDD initiatives and implementing organizations.
Links to further information
IISD RS coverage of the meeting
Meeting website