Monitoring, reporting and verification for national REDD + programmes: two proposals

By Martin Herold, M. Skutsch. 2011

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Different options have been suggested by Parties to the UNFCCC (United Framework Convention on Climate Change) for inclusion in national approaches to REDD and REDD + (reduced deforestation, reduced degradation, enhancement of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forest, and conservation of forest carbon stocks). This paper proposes that from the practical and technical points of view of designing action for REDD and REDD + at local and sub-national level, as well as from the point of view of the necessary MRV (monitoring, reporting and verification), these should be grouped into three categories: conservation, which is rewarded on the basis of no changes in forest stock, reduced deforestation, in which lowered rates of forest area loss are rewarded, and positive impacts on carbon stock changes in forests remaining forest, which includes reduced degradation, sustainable management of forest of various kinds, and forest enhancement. Thus we have moved degradation, which conventionally is grouped with deforestation, into the forest management group reported as areas remaining forest land, with which it has, in reality, and particularly as regards MRV, much more in common. Secondly, in the context of the fact that REDD/REDD + is to take the form of a national or near-national approach, we argue that while systematic national monitoring is important, it may not be necessary for REDD/REDD + activities, or for national MRV, to be started at equal levels of intensity all over the country. Rather, areas where interventions seem easiest to start may be targeted, and here data measurements may be more rigorous (Tier 3), for example based on stakeholder self-monitoring with independent verification, while in other, untreated areas, a lower level of monitoring may be pursued, at least in the first instance. Treated areas may be targeted for any of the three groups of activities (conservation, reduced deforestation, and positive impact on carbon stock increases in forest remaining forest).

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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”
Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change (2014, methodology): “One approach to quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from forests, an 50 important component of carbon accounting, is based on estimating the area of forest change and 51 then applying emissions factors associated with these changes to translate the area changes into 52 emissions (Herold and Skutsch”