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Book (stand-alone)National Forest Monitoring Systems: Monitoring and Measurement, Reporting and Verification (M & MRV) in the context of REDD+ Activities
UN-REDD Programme
2013Also available in:
No results found.This document builds on the brief paper presented at the 7th Meeting of the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board, held in Berlin, October 2011 (UNREDD/PB7/2011/13), which lays out ways to consider the REDD+ monitoring and information provision needs in the broader context of national development and environmental strategies, at the implementation level. The purpose of this document is to describe the elements in National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMSs) as they relate to REDD+ under the United Nation s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and to describe the UN-REDD Programme approach to Monitoring and Measurement, Reporting and Verification (M & MRV) requirements. This paper is presented in a series of sections discussing the various elements of relevant texts of the UNFCCC and the methodological recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This approach aims to allow the end-user to consider the implications of the implementation of REDD+ activities in distinct national contexts, and the various steps involved. -
Book (stand-alone)Strengthening National Forest Monitoring Systems for REDD+ 2018
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been providing support to member countries on national forest monitoring for decades. Best practices and lessons learned from this support are summarized in FAO´s Voluntary guidelines on national forest monitoring (VGNFM). The guidelines provide principles, elements and best practices for the establishment and implementation of a multipurpose National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS). The aim of this paper is to strengthen the elements and guidelines provided in the VGNFM in the context of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). It also includes a deeper analysis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change decisions and the most recent methodological recommendations provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, focusing on the three pillars of an NFMS for REDD+: a Satellite Land Monitoring System, a National Forest Inventory, and REDD+ reporting, including the combination of remote-sensing and ground-based forest inventory to estimate anthropogenic forest related Greenhouse Gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks. -
Book (stand-alone)Ten years of capacity development on national forest monitoring for REDD+
Much achieved yet much more to do
2018Also available in:
No results found.Over the last ten years, the governments of developing countries and their donors around the world have invested heavily in national forest monitoring systems. This paper investigates how capacities have developed and where gaps remain. For a group of 16 countries, the national forest monitoring systems were assessed at three points in time (2008–2015–2018), using a scorecard with 28 indicators for satellite land monitoring systems, national forest inventories, forest reference (emission) levels and national greenhouse gas inventory systems. Overall, as of 2018, a number of countries have established significant forest monitoring capacities. Progress is uneven, however, and room for improvement remains among countries. It varies between the pillars of national forest monitoring systems, as well as between technical and functional capacities, although progress has gained momentum over time. To advance further, governments will need to pay more attention to building up system maintenance and to improving data collection and methodologies.
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