Linking requirements with capabilities for deforestation monitoring in the context of the UNFCCC-REDD process

By Martin Herold, T. Johns. 2007

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As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change nears the end of a two-year period of evaluation of the issue of reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries, participating countries have agreed on the need to address this globally important source of greenhouse gas emissions. Negotiations on policy frameworks to monitor and reduce deforestation rely on an understanding of the scientific and technical capacity to support these efforts. Current UNFCCC programs to improve observation of land and forest cover change can provide valuable input to a future policy mechanism focusing on deforestation emissions from developing countries. Countries participating in the current debate have officially referenced the value of remote sensing tools and methods for deforestation monitoring, and have identified specific needs and goals related to their implementation. Based on these identified needs, this paper outlines recommendations for a monitoring framework that can be globally applied with sufficient levels of accuracy and certainty. This framework can serve as a starting point for monitoring programs, and can be modified in response to expected progress in establishing an international policy framework for reducing emissions from deforestation.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change

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Automated mapping of tropical deforestation and forest degradation: CLASlite (2009, background): “As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) moves to implement the program for Reduced Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) [1, 2], the scientific community is tasked with providing concrete methodologies to monitor forest cover and to estimate changes in carbon stocks over”
The potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study from the Amazon region (2009, methodology): “The monitoring protocols that will be used in REDD are still under discussion (Herold & Johns, 2007; GOFC-GOLD, 2009), and are benefiting from technological breakthroughs, including high-resolution, cloud- and smoke-free imaging of forests using new radar and laser sensors (Kellndorfer et al.,…”
Monitoring and estimating tropical forest carbon stocks: making REDD a reality (2007, methodology): “Methods to assess tropical deforestation are described elsewhere (DeFries et al 2005, 2007, Herold and Johns 2007, Olander et al 2007, Achard et al 2007).”
Envisioning REDD+ in a post‐Paris era: between evolving expectations and current practice (2017, background): “Carbon accounting has thus been centre stage in policy and scholarly debates, on-the-ground interventions, and REDD+ readiness activities.(47,48) Data and methods need to be robust for countries to report REDD+ performance since REDD+ result based payments will only be granted on the basis of the ad”