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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations UN-REDD ProgrammeUnited Nations Development Programme Working Paper 3United Nations Environment Programme 2008
UN-REDD Programme
REDD-WorkshopMONITORING, ASSESSMENT AND
VERIFICATION
16 - 17 September 2008
REDD Monitoring and Verification Roadmap to UNFCCCCOP-15 Copenhagen and Beyond
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The UN-REDD Programme, implemented by FAO, UNDP and UNEP, has twocomponents: (i) assisting developing countries prepare and implement national REDDstrategies and mechanisms; (ii) supporting the development of normative solutions andstandardized approaches based on sound science for a REDD instrument linked withthe UNFCCC. The programme helps empower countries to manage their REDDprocesses and will facilitate access to financial and technical assistance tailored to thespecific needs of the countries.
The application of UNDP, UNEP and FAO rights-based and participatory approacheswill also help ensure the rights of indigenous and forest-dwelling people are protected
and the active involvement of local communities and relevant stakeholders andinstitutions in the design and implementation of REDD plans.
The programme is implemented through the UN Joint Programmes modalities, enablingrapid initiation of programme implementation and channeling of funds for REDD efforts,building on the in-country presence of UN agencies as a crucial support structure forcountries. The UN-REDD Programme encourage coordinated and collaborative UNsupport to countries, thus maximizing efficiencies and effectiveness of the organizations’collective input, consistent with the “One UN” approach advocated by UN members.
UN-REDD Programme contacts:
Peter HolmgrenEnvironment, Climate Change and Bioenergy DivisionFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)[email protected]
Tim ClairsBureau for Development Policy, Environment GroupUnited Nations Development Programme (UNDP)[email protected]
Tim KastenDivision of Environmental Policy ImplementationUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)[email protected]
Website: www.undp.org/mdtf/un-redd (www.unredd.net under construction)
Disclaimer
The UN-REDD Programme Working Paper Series is designed to reflect the activities
and progress related to the Programme. These Working Papers are not authoritativeinformation sources – they do not reflect the official position of FAO, UNDP or UNEPand should not be used for official purposes.The Working Paper Series provides an important forum for the rapid release ofinformation related to the UN-REDD Programme. Should readers find any errors in thedocuments or would like to provide comments for improving their quality, they areencouraged to get in touch with one of the above contacts.
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REDD Monitoring and Verification Roadmap to UNBeyond
The following Roadmap is current result of the Washington meeting. The latest ver
Wiki page and it will be also linked from the UN-REDD Programme web site.
• The purpose of the Roadmap is to provide an overview of the monitoring an
international community, as well as activities planned and needed to make R
• The Roadmap was set up by the UN-REDD Programme but is intended to s
Programme facilitates the processes and community participation, and every
• The Roadmap is a living document and anyone can edit the Roadmap. Plea
Roadmap.
• Please add your activities, meetings, and initiatives that correspond to each
event/meeting, please also add it to the REDD event calendar (available ath
The Roadmap is separated into the following broad categories.
• Data
• Tools
• Capacity building
• Coordination
• Infrastructure
• Co-benefits
• Field sampling
• Historical deforestation trends
• Historical degradation
• Future monitoring of degradation
• Verification
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Available methodologies,
approaches and initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
Data: Access to remote sensing data for developing countries
Make access to Landsat data easier to all users
Make all Landsat data available for free1
Make access to Landsat data easier through GoogleEarth
Create comprehensive website with links to existing
databases and link it to UNFCCC REDD data page.
Support access and use of China-Brazil Earth Resources
Satellite (CBERS2), data at least as interim solution until
new Landsat data is available
GEO Forest Monitoring Symposium3 with dataproviders for carbon estimates to discuss constraints,access schemes and cost implications
Identify and aggregate data needs of many countries for
higher resolution data for negotiation with data providers.
Enhance process to ensure international coordination of
data supply, requirements and standards
• South-south cooperation
• others?
Identify availability of historical data periods for trends
analysis and make data available
1 http://landsat.usgs.gov/products_data_at_no_charge.php
2 http://www.cbers.inpe.br/en/index_en.htm3 http://www.dpi.inpe.br/geoforest/
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Available methodologies, approaches
and initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
TOOLS: Access to tools and development of tools for REDD monitoring and verification
Compile existing methodologies, manuals and standards,for making better use of the existing informationAccess to tools
No currently available approaches?
Simplify access to tools: create free remote sensing REDD
monitoring toolbox.
Tools for historical trendsImplement tools and methods for interpretation ofhistorical trends with particular attention to monitoring ofdrivers.
Tools for degradation assessments(historical)
Estimate past levels of degradation at national level bycombining remote sensing areas affected by human
activities and ground observation of carbon density.
Explore applicability of existing methodologies to estimatcarbon stock changes from degradation
Develop new tools, if necessary
Develop and disseminate disturbance monitoring toolbox
Tools for future monitoring ofdegradation
• UNFCCC Tokyo methodologyworkshop4 presentations and
report
• GOFC-GOLD Sourcebook
• others?
Submit available tools to UNFCCC secretariat
4 http://unfccc.int/methods_and_science/lulucf/items/4289.php
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Expert meeting on forest degradation
GEO Forest Monitoring Symposium5
Coordinate degradation monitoring protocols
Provide input to the UNFCCC workshop and follow-upactions to address needs and opportunities identified
during the UNFCCC workshop on degradation (Oct 2008)
e.g. second expert meeting if necessary
Tools for uncertainties assessments Develop tools and methods or estimating uncertainties on
monitoring and forest degradation.
Disseminate Landsat-based deforestation and forest
disturbance monitoring program to NGO, government and
academic institutions located in rainforest nations.
Future ALOS7 missions on ecosystem structureplanned (incl. Woods Hole)
Facilitate/engage research institutions on identification of
relevant topics for assessing carbon stock changes fromdegradation for various forest types and support them
Tools for disturbance emission factors
Submit above degradation research report to UNFCCC
secretariat
Conduct studies on options to monitor co-benefits, ways to
incorporate on reporting process.Tools and methods to evaluate co-
benefitsDevelop methods and tools for monitor co-benefits.
Expand sections on degradation in IPCC Guidelines • Methodology guidelines IPCC2003 GPG and 2006Guidelines Elaborate further GOFC-GOLD sourcebook and feed later
into IPCC GPG and Guidelines
5 http://www.dpi.inpe.br/geoforest/
6 http://asnerlab.stanford.edu/7 http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/alos/index_e.html
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Available methodologies, approaches
and initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
Capacity building: Coordinated approach for capacity building /technology transfer at nationa
Raise REDD awareness and motivate countries
CD-REDD initiative, global workshop
Organize similar workshops as global CD-REDD
workshop at regional and national level to motivatecountries
Assemble and disseminate information about ongoingtraining programs, their purpose and timing
Develop national strategies and multi-stakeholder
consultation process for monitoring in the REDD context
Assess national-level training needs
CB general
• GOFC-GOLD Sourcebook 8
• FAO
• IPCC GPG9 and Guidelines10
and training materials
• UNDP-UNEP Capacity
building project (CM)
• CfRN
• Brazil, South-South
cooperation• others?
Define a planning schedule and process for countries’
national needs
CB on IPCC GPG and Guidelines and
training materials
No currently available approaches?Provide dedicated, consistent REDD training programme
linking science with technology transfer
8 http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/redd/index.php
9 http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gpglulucf/gpglulucf.html10
http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/index.html
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Provide formal academic trainings in developing countries(e.g. USAID)
Training of trainers for GHG inventories
Strengthen regional centres in the application of RS for
REDD
Develop manual/tutorials/standards for data collection,
monitoring, use of remote sensing, estimating carbonstocks with regard to REL and future monitoring for
REDD
Implement training on software usage for data processing,
data collection/processing/management fornational/international monitoring
Draw lessons from existing experiences
CB on remote sensing for REDD
• Regional network initiative
from GOFC-GOLD11
(e.g.data harmonization)
• FRA201012: 30-40 countries
involved in RS approach willalso get CB
• South-south collaboration,
strengthen partnerships
• others?
Brazil Amazon Fund from Norway – 20% (about 20mil $) for transferring Brazilian REDD monitoringsystem to other countries
Develop cost-effective and simple methodologies that
provide credible field data available
CB for field sampling for REDD
• CDM methodologies
(UNFCCC),
• CDM experiences at projectlevel
• community level inventories Promote south-south cooperation
11 http://www.fao.org/gtos/gofc-gold/networks.html12
http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/en/
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Assess CDM to gather information and lessons learned • The Nature Conservancy
(TNC) forest carbon projects• others? Provide contributions to LULUCF Sourcebook
(Winrock)13
Provide legal support for monitoring systems to speed up
the processCB on legal support
No currently available approaches? Organize trainings on legal support based on needs
assessment
CB on GIS
No currently available approaches?
Provide GIS trainings at national level (carbon inventory
as starting point, also useful for integrating cobenefits
etc.)
South-south cooperationConvene follow-up meeting to focus on south-south
dialogue, exchange of experience and collaboration
Indigenous people
Provide training for governments on implementation of th
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples(UNDRIP) (e.g., prior informed consent, resource rights,
etc)
Establish carbon accounting system
Set up policies for REDD
Strengthen institutional capacity for REDD
Strengthen law enforcement and cooperation and
coordination between national agencies and links to
regional and international enforcement bodies, local
communities, indigenous groups, and NGOs.
CB at national level (general)
Carry out remote sensing and field inventories,
information management and analysis, and statistics
services, for both national and sub-regional levels.
13http://carbonfinance.org/Router.cfm?Page=News&ItemID=24669&NewsID=25
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Available methodologies, approachesand initiatives Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
Coordination: General coordination of REDD work internationally and within country
Strengthen coordination and communication amongexisting and future REDD projects within country, e.g.,
Country level REDD coordination teams and strategy
Strengthen coordination and communication amongstexisting and future REDD projects between countries,
including south-south cooperation.
Build on existing facilities to serve clearinghouse functionfor M&V (e.g., Program for National Reporting under
UNFCCC?)
International and national coordination
• Program for NationalReporting under UNFCCC?
• Other currently available
approaches?
Create master calendar that tracks overall activities
planned for REDD from UN-REDD Programme and
related initiatives to best inform national engagement
Incremental changes in carbon stockClarification of proposals on how to include incrementalchanges in carbon stocks in a future regime
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Available methodologies, approachesand initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national levelimplementation in italic)
Infrastructure: Infrastructure including data, models, GIS, knowledge sharing system
Improve access to hardware, software, internet
Build infrastructure for RS, e.g., set up RS labs in each
country or create/strengthen regional RS centres
• GEO-Netcast (*) system inplace (radio transmissions
where no internet connection)
• others?
Put in place infrastructure for communication with local
communities
(*) GEO-Netcast uses existing commercial telecommunications infrastructure to allow for the broad
observation data upon user request, as well as for the collection of data from isolated sites and obser
Available methodologies, approachesand initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
Co-benefits: Create synergies with other monitoring needs; co-benefits. See also tools section
Synthesize lessons from existing monitoring effortsrelevant for REDD
Review possibilities to include co-benefits (principles,
monitoring, standards) (see tools and methods)Any available initiatives?
Start with simple and flexible carbon monitoring system
and then later add more parameters (outside legallybinding agreement)
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Available methodologies, approaches
and initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
Field sampling: Field sampling including uncertainties, conversion factors, compatibility with
Raise funding for field sampling
Develop mechanism to prioritize funding for differentkinds of field sampling
Quantification of field samplinguncertainty and need for local
conversion factors (allometric equation,
etc)
• IPCC 2006 Guidelines asdefault
• Site specific scientific research
• National government efforts
• others?
Support national field programme to quantify uncertainty
Assess initiatives on field sampling towards synergy (e.g.,sample plot size)
Optimize compatibility where new inventories are going t
be established
Expert meeting to develop guidelines for inventory design(statistics needs, RS needs, permanent sample plot system
Complementarities of national datafrom field sampling and remote sensing
• GEO, remote sensingcommunity
• Stratification of forest land
(with the help of RS) is key for
cost-efficient sampling
• others?
National REDD teams should look at the issue of
complementarities of national data
14 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/flegt.htm15
http://www.un.org/esa/forests/index.html
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Available methodologies,
approaches and initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
Historical deforestation trends: Interpreting historical trends including identification and mon
Commission report from credibleinternational experts on current options
for various REL periods and pros/cons
learned from current activities, includingexamples of applying options at pilot
country level.
Workshop on Remote sensing sensorsand systems available to measure andmonitor tropical deforestation anddegradation
Continue research on implications ofdifferent methods for RELs
• World Bank report "At Loggerheads?"16
• CIFOR experiences "Do trees grow on
money?"17
• Indonesia Forest Climate Alliance (IFCA)
study18
• Project experiences from voluntary markets
• Global land project19, Bibliography20
• others?
Address drivers of deforestation and , e.g.other sectors such as agriculture and
infrastructure policies and effect on
deforestation; consider inclusion of
demographic factors such as population
growth, trends, post-conflict rebounds
16
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EX
pagePK:64168092~piPK:64168088~theSitePK:2463874,00.html17
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/Publications/Detail?pid=234718
http://www.dephut.go.id/INFORMASI/LITBANG/IFCA/ifca.htm19 http://www.globallandproject.org/documents.shtml20
http://www.globallandproject.org/documents.shtml and http://resweb.llu.edu/rfo
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Available methodologies, approaches
and initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
Historical degradation: Establishing historic degradation emission factors including cost impli
Commission methodology report by recognized experts
about the current knowledge on forest degradations
Special Study on Forest Degradation (planned)
Review and synthesize existing studies of field/pilot cases
Conduct case studies to quantify emission factors fordifferent types of human intervention detectable by remotesensing or other means (logging, shifting cultivation, fires
pests/diseases), test the IPCC Guidelines and suggest
enhancements as needed (explore ways to include in pilot
country activities, e.g., FCPF/UN-REDD Programme)
• WRI (Bolivia, DRC,
Indonesia pilot project, GregAsner and Carlos Souza)
• Brazil
• ASB, ICRAF21
• GOFC/GOLD-Fire22
• IPCC GPG and
• GOFC-GOLD Sourcebook
• others?
Conduct demonstration projects for establishing historicdegradation emission factors including cost implications,accuracy, and causes
21 http://www.asb.cgiar.org/22
http://gofc-fire.umd.edu/
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Available methodologies, approaches
and initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
Future monitoring of degradation: Projects and methods for future monitoring of degradationbiomass changes. See also tools section.
Explore applicability of existing methodologies in the fiel
more broadly
Conduct feasibility studies of estimating past degradation
Facilitate North-South and South-South cooperation
• Carnegie Institution for
Science
• Imazon
• Woods Hole Research Centre
• Japan (Forest Carbon Density
mapping, CB through Asia-Pacific Network for Global
Change Research (APN))
• WRI
• South Dakota State Univ23
• Research programme funded
by NASA (e.g., SAFARI 2000
(The Southern AfricanRegional Science Initiative))
• GEO
• Australia National CarbonAccounting System (NCAS)24
• others?Improve complementarities between field sampling and
burned area estimates by RS
23 http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/
24 http://www.climatechange.gov.au/ncas/index.html
25 http://www.inpe.br/ingles/index.php26
http://sentinel.ga.gov.au/acres/sentinel/index.shtml
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Available methodologies, approaches
and initiatives
Actions (already planned item in bold, national level
implementation in italic)
Verification: Verification includes independent, apolitical review process, transparent methodssystems
Review existing experiences with CDM and Annex 1
countries for lessons learned to inform the development ofan international review process.
Identify ways how to incorporate REDD needs in
UNFCCC independent review process for GHG
inventories
Establish and use independent data sets for verification anmake them available to countries (requires CB, welldocumentation of methods and data, uncertainty estimates
and also to NGOs, local communities
Establish independent, transparent verification
group/committee/team on national emissions and carbonstocks.
Convene international meeting on issues of governance,
transparency to provide NGOs and other institutions
meaningful input into process (possibly not limited to
monitoring)
Independent verification
Country-level case study on verification
Access by NGOs and local
communities to verification process
No currently available approaches?
Improve communication with NGOs, local communities
and indigenous people through a national stakeholderprocess
27 http://www.ciel.org/
28 http://www.field.org.uk/29
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/eedp/
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Political support Ensure political commitment, and legislative mandate, and
institutional arrangements.
Establish forest carbon/terrestrial accounting system
infrastructure
National registry links?
Link national data management infrastructure to forest law
enforcement including legal and regulatory instruments.
Ensure transparency in accountability
National level
Strengthen public access to data and mainstream forest
monitoring information in national statistics services.
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