Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force

Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force
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GCF Task Force Logo
Type Memoranda of Understanding
Signed 18 November 2008
Location Los Angeles, CA
Parties 35[1]

The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force) is a sub-national collaboration between 38 states and provinces from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Spain, and the United States. The Task Force is designed to support jurisdictional approaches to low emissions rural development and reduced emissions from deforestation and land use (REDD+), specifically through performance-based payment schemes and national or state-based greenhouse gas (GHG) compliance regimes.[1]

The Task Force was initiated by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on November 18, 2008 at the Governors’ Climate Change Summit in Los Angeles, California. At this summit the U.S. states of California, Illinois, and Wisconsin,[lower-alpha 1] the Brazilian states of Amapá, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, and Pará, and the Indonesian provinces of Aceh and Papua signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) supporting cooperation on a number of issues related to climate policy, financing, technological cooperation, and research. These MOUs also called for the creation of a Joint Action Plan to provide a framework for implementing the MOUs in the forest section. The GCF Task Force held its first international meeting in 2009 in Belem, Brazil, where it approved its Joint Action Plan.

Current member states

Country Member States or Provinces[1]
 Brazil Amapá Amazonas Maranhão Mato Grosso Pará Rondônia Tocantins
 Colombia Caquetá
 Indonesia Aceh Central Kalimantan East Kalimantan North Kalimantan Papua West Kalimantan West Papua
 Ivory Coast Bélier Cavally
 Mexico Campeche Chiapas Jalisco Quintana Roo Tabasco Yucatán
 Nigeria Cross River State
 Peru Amazonas Huánuco Loreto Madre de Dios Piura San Martín Ucayali
 Spain Catalonia
 United States California Illinois

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ As of 2011, Wisconsin is no longer a GCF member.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "GCF Overview". Governors' Climate & Forests Task Force. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
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