This document discusses empowering commercial forestry through incentives for small- and large-scale forests from an Australian and global perspective. It identifies that forests providing less desirable goods and services are more economically viable than diverse, species-rich forests. It proposes a solution called "TRI Green!" that focuses on providing incentives through tenure security, regulations, and payments on a per-hectare basis to landholders who conserve biodiversity and utilize forests sustainably. The goal is to make conservation-oriented land uses as economically attractive as alternative land uses to enhance both goods and services from forests.

1. Empowering commercial forestry:
Incentives for small- and large-scale forests
(Australian & Global perspective)
Jerry Vanclay
Southern Cross University
Australia

2. Empowering commercial forestry
1.Symptoms of a problem
2. The real problem
3. Towards a solution
4. What we can do
5. What we should do
6. IUFRO-FORNESSA priorities

3. Symptoms of a problem

4. Punic 1000 - 146 BC
Roman 146 BC – 600 AD
Arab 700 – 1500 AD
Ottoman 1500 - 1880
Jebari et al 2012, Hydrological Sciences Journal 57 (5), 1–12

5. The problem:
Forests we don’t want, do pay (risky, boring forests)
Forests we do want, don’t pay (diverse, ‘rich’ forests)

6. Science in the news this month
- Lessons for us…

7. 50 of us got stuck in
the mud and died
during a period of
Are we stuck in the mud after Rio+20? climate change…

8. Transit of Venus: 1st cooperative big science
1716: Halley explained how to measure
distance between earth and sun. Suggested
observers in Norway, Canada & South Pacific.
1761: 120 observers from 9 nations,
all unsuccessful due to bad weather.
1766: Preparations for 1769 transit begin,
plans for observers in Norway, Canada, Tahiti.
1769: Cook observes transit in Tahiti
… and also went on to claim Australia.
1771: Hornsby estimate within 0.8% of true.

9. The problem:
Forests we don’t want, do pay (risky, boring forests)
Forests we do want, don’t pay (diverse, ‘rich’ forests)

10. Big marble + deep bowl
= more resilience
Resilience at many scales…

11. Examples: Silviculture + Mensura on ≠ Success

12. Local Silviculture
National Management
Continental Markets
Global Policy
Tenure
Regulations
Incentives

13. Tenure
Regulations
Incentives

17. REDD+
Rainbow Fuelwood
water
Charcoal
Medicinal
plants
Ecotourism Bushmeat
Streams Building
& rivers materials
Biodiversity Fodder
Green
exercise
Green! – Getting Renewable Environs and Economies Now!

18. 50% of $$$ on bureaucrats, compliance, prosecution
Incentives for Australia’s 100 most-threatened
species, shared equally amongst these species
Payment on per-hectare basis to landholders who
prove dependence (e.g. photos of breeding)
$/ha greater than many alternative land uses.

19. What is needed to enhance Goods & Services...?
Mafa Chipeta: “Africa REDD” – I differ slightly, and say “GREEN Africa”
(remember GREEN, incentives for non-REDD incentives)
Implications for Researchers & Governance…?
TRI – how much, and how to implement locally relevant incentives.

20. TRI Green!
Tenure, Regulations, Incentives for Getting Renewable Environs and Economies Now!