Under the leadership of Governor Pedro Bogarin Vargas, the Government of San Martin, Peru and the GCF Task Force hosted an Intercambio de Experiencias in San Martin from October 10-13, 2022. This important technical exchange promoted the sharing of experiences from within and across the GCF Task Force network of subnational governments, with a particular focus on the 7 Peruvian members of the network.

Throughout the exchange, more than 500 participants

1. Went into the field to observe and discuss relevant practices to reduce deforestation and promote a new forest economy, including:

• Initiatives with standing forests (ecotourism, sustainable forest management, etc.)
• Impacts on drivers of deforestation (coffee, cocoa, etc.)
• Inclusion and gender approaches (small producers, women, etc.)
• Innovation and technology (solar energy, technical irrigation, satellite monitoring, etc.)

2. Empowerment and scalability (social organizations, cooperatives, etc.). We presented important international experiences to reduce deforestation and promote a new forest economy considering objective criteria such as:

• Impact on the enhancement of standing forests
• Impact on reducing deforestation
• Inclusion and gender approaches
• Innovation and technology
• Empowerment and scalability

3. Organized around the 4 pillars of the Manaus Action Plan for a New Forest Economy that was endorsed by the GCF Task Force at our Annual Meeting in Manaus, Brazil in March 2022:

• People and Communities
• Knowledge, technology and innovation
• Finance, investment and private sector
• Government and public policies

4. Held a “High Level Segment” with the participation of Governors and other authorities regarding commitments to the climate agenda and to promoting jurisdiction-scale efforts to reduce deforestation and low emissions rural development strategies

The program agenda is available here and most recent information for the meeting is available in Spanish. 

A detailed agenda of the field visits is available here.