TY - BOOK
T1 - A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation.
T2 - GOFC-GOLD Report version COP18-1
AU - Arino, Olivier
AU - Asner, Gregory P
AU - Boschetti, Luigi
AU - Braatz, Barbara
AU - Chiuvieco, Emilio
AU - Csiszar, Ivan
AU - Cutler, Mark
AU - Englhart, Sandra
AU - de Jong, Bernardus
AU - Falkowski, Michael
AU - Federici, Sandro
AU - Franke, Jonas
AU - Goetz, Scott
AU - Harris, Nancy
AU - Hirata, Yasumasa
AU - Hoffman, Anja
AU - Joosten, Hans
AU - Justice, Chris
AU - Kellndorfer, Josef
AU - Kull, Stephen
AU - Kurz, Werner
AU - Lambin, Eric
AU - McCall, Mike
AU - McRoberts, Ron
AU - Monni, Suvi
AU - Moore, Rebecca
AU - Naesset, Erik
AU - Nelson, Ross
AU - Shimabukuro, Yosio
AU - Paganini, Marc
AU - Pearson, Tim
AU - Richards, Gary
AU - Roy, David
AU - Russell-Smith, Jeremy
AU - Siegert, Florian
AU - Shoch, David
AU - Skutsch, Margaret
AU - Spessa, Allan
AU - Van Laake, Patrick
AU - Wulder, Michael
A2 - Achard, Frederic
A2 - Brown, Sandra
A2 - Brady, Michael
A2 - DeFries, Ruth
A2 - Grassi, Giacomo
A2 - Herold, Martin
A2 - Mollicone, Danilo
A2 - Mora, Brice
A2 - Pandey, Devendra
A2 - Souza, Carlos
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This sourcebook provides a consensus perspective from the global community of earth observation and carbon experts on methodological issues relating to quantifying the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of implementing mitigation activities related to the forest land use in developing countries (REDD+). At current status of negotiation five forest-related activities have been listed to be implemented as mitigation actions by developing countries, namely: reducing emissions from deforestation (which implies a land-use change) and reducing emissions from forest degradation, conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forest land, Enhancement of forest carbon stocks (all relating to carbon stock changes and GHG emissions within managed forest land use, including forest expansion on non-forest land). The UNFCCC negotiations and related country submissions on REDD+ have advocated that methodologies and tools become available for estimating emissions and removals from deforestation and forest land management, including forest expansion, with an acceptable level of certainty. Based on the current status of negotiations and UNFCCC approved methodologies, the Sourcebook aims to provide additional explanation, clarification, and methodologies to support REDD+ early actions and readiness mechanisms for building national REDD+ monitoring systems. It complements the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and it is aimed at being fully consistent with this IPCC Guidelines and with the UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual GHG inventories. The book emphasizes the role of satellite remote sensing as an important tool for monitoring changes in forest cover, provides guidance on how to obtain credible estimates of forest carbon stocks and related changes, and provides clarification on the use of IPCC Guidelines for estimating and reporting GHG emissions and removals from forest lands.The sourcebook is the outcome of an ad-hoc REDD+ working group of “Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics” (GOFC-GOLD, www.fao.org/gtos/gofc-gold/), a technical panel of the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS). The working group has been active since the initiation of the UNFCCC REDD+ process in 2005, has organized REDD+ expert workshops, and has contributed to related UNFCCC/SBSTA side events and GTOS submissions. GOFC-GOLD provides an independent expert platform for international cooperation and communication to formulate scientific consensus and provide technical input to the discussions and for implementation activities. A number of international experts in remote sensing, carbon measurement and reporting under the UNFCCC have contributed to the development of this sourcebook.With some REDD+ decisions already adopted, Dec. 4/CP.15, Dec. 1/CP.16 and Dec. 12/CP.17, but with political discussions and negotiations ongoing, the current document provides the starting point to support the development of national forest monitoring systems (par. 71, Dec. 1/CP.16) and forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels (section II, Dec. 12/CP.17) considering current technical capabilities to monitor GHG emissions and removals from deforestation, reforestation and activities in forest land remaining forest land. This sourcebook is a living document and further methods and technical details can be specified and added with evolving negotiations and science. Respective communities are invited to provide comments and feedback to evolve a more detailed and refined guidelines document in the future.
AB - This sourcebook provides a consensus perspective from the global community of earth observation and carbon experts on methodological issues relating to quantifying the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of implementing mitigation activities related to the forest land use in developing countries (REDD+). At current status of negotiation five forest-related activities have been listed to be implemented as mitigation actions by developing countries, namely: reducing emissions from deforestation (which implies a land-use change) and reducing emissions from forest degradation, conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forest land, Enhancement of forest carbon stocks (all relating to carbon stock changes and GHG emissions within managed forest land use, including forest expansion on non-forest land). The UNFCCC negotiations and related country submissions on REDD+ have advocated that methodologies and tools become available for estimating emissions and removals from deforestation and forest land management, including forest expansion, with an acceptable level of certainty. Based on the current status of negotiations and UNFCCC approved methodologies, the Sourcebook aims to provide additional explanation, clarification, and methodologies to support REDD+ early actions and readiness mechanisms for building national REDD+ monitoring systems. It complements the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and it is aimed at being fully consistent with this IPCC Guidelines and with the UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual GHG inventories. The book emphasizes the role of satellite remote sensing as an important tool for monitoring changes in forest cover, provides guidance on how to obtain credible estimates of forest carbon stocks and related changes, and provides clarification on the use of IPCC Guidelines for estimating and reporting GHG emissions and removals from forest lands.The sourcebook is the outcome of an ad-hoc REDD+ working group of “Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics” (GOFC-GOLD, www.fao.org/gtos/gofc-gold/), a technical panel of the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS). The working group has been active since the initiation of the UNFCCC REDD+ process in 2005, has organized REDD+ expert workshops, and has contributed to related UNFCCC/SBSTA side events and GTOS submissions. GOFC-GOLD provides an independent expert platform for international cooperation and communication to formulate scientific consensus and provide technical input to the discussions and for implementation activities. A number of international experts in remote sensing, carbon measurement and reporting under the UNFCCC have contributed to the development of this sourcebook.With some REDD+ decisions already adopted, Dec. 4/CP.15, Dec. 1/CP.16 and Dec. 12/CP.17, but with political discussions and negotiations ongoing, the current document provides the starting point to support the development of national forest monitoring systems (par. 71, Dec. 1/CP.16) and forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels (section II, Dec. 12/CP.17) considering current technical capabilities to monitor GHG emissions and removals from deforestation, reforestation and activities in forest land remaining forest land. This sourcebook is a living document and further methods and technical details can be specified and added with evolving negotiations and science. Respective communities are invited to provide comments and feedback to evolve a more detailed and refined guidelines document in the future.
M3 - Other report
VL - COP18-1
BT - A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation.
PB - Wageningen University
CY - Wageningen, Netherlands
ER -