Applying the conservativeness principle to REDD to deal with the uncertainties of the estimates

By G. Grassi, S. Monni, S. Federici, Frédéric Achard, D. Mollicone. 2008

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A common paradigm when the reduction of emissions from deforestations is estimated for the purpose of promoting it as a mitigation option in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is that high uncertainties in input data—i.e., area change and C stock change/area—may seriously undermine the credibility of the estimates and therefore of reduced deforestation as a mitigation option. In this paper, we show how a series of concepts and methodological tools—already existing in UNFCCC decisions and IPCC guidance documents—may greatly help to deal with the uncertainties of the estimates of reduced emissions from deforestation.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

• High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon (2010, background): “proach would likely yield increased investment per unit of carbon (15, 16).”
• Monitoring, reporting and verification for national REDD + programmes: two proposals (2011, unknown): “A useful concept providing flexibility in dealing with uncertain or incomplete data in the REDD+ process is conservativeness (Grassi et al 2008).”
• Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD): an options assessment report (2009, methodology): “The UNFCCC process for reviewing GHG inventories involves the intensive use of experts, and at present there are an insufficient number of experts on the UNFCCC 45 Grassi et al. 2008.”