Achieving forest carbon information with higher certainty: A five-part plan |
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| Authors: | D James Baker Gary Richards Alan Grainger Patrick Gonzalez Sandra Brown Ruth DeFries Alexander Held Josef Kellndorfer Peter Ndunda Dennis Ojima Per-Erik Skrovseth Carlos Souza Fred Stolle |
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| Institution: | 1. The William J. Clinton Foundation, 8031 Seminole Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118, USA;2. Land Management Branch, Department of Climate Change, Government of Australia, GPO Box 854, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia;3. School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;4. Center for Forestry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA;5. Winrock International, 621 N Kent St., Suite 1200, Arlington, VA 22209, USA;6. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA;7. Environmental Earth Observation/CSIRO Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research & CSIRO-BoM Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, GPO Box 3023, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia;8. Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA 02540-1644, USA;10. The H John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, 900 17th Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006, USA;11. International Programmes, Earth Observation, Norwegian Space Centre, P.O. Box 113 Skoyen, N-0212 Oslo, Norway;12. Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (IMAZON), Rua Domingos Marreiros 2020, Fátima, Belém, Pará CEP 66060-160, Brazil;13. World Resources Institute (WRI), 10 G St. NE, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20002, USA |
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| Abstract: | International negotiations on the inclusion of land use activities into an emissions reduction system for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have been partially hindered by the technical challenges of measuring, reporting, and verifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the policy issues of leakage, additionality, and permanence. This paper outlines a five-part plan for estimating forest carbon stocks and emissions with the accuracy and certainty needed to support a policy for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, forest conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (the REDD-plus framework considered at the UNFCCC COP-15) in developing countries. The plan is aimed at UNFCCC non-Annex 1 developing countries, but the principles outlined are also applicable to developed (Annex 1) countries. The parts of the plan are: (1) Expand the number of national forest carbon Measuring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems with a priority on tropical developing countries; (2) Implement continuous global forest carbon assessments through the network of national systems; (3) Achieve commitments from national space agencies for the necessary satellite data; (4) Establish agreed-on standards and independent verification processes to ensure robust reporting; and (5) Enhance coordination among international and multilateral organizations. |
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