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Meeting of Remote Sensing Task Force for FRA
2010 30 March - 3 April 2009 Danilo Mollicone,
FAO UN-REDD Programme
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Origin of UN-REDD

• In response to
• UNFCCC Decision in Bali 2/CP.13
• Requests from governments in the Coalition for
  Rainforest Nations
• Requests from other governments and UN
  Secretary General -- for joint UN action
  Delivering as One UN

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UN-REDD Programme Key Principles

• Institution strengthening, capacity building and
  local action
• Stakeholder participation
• Measurement, assessment, reporting verification
• Coordinated response
• Country-driven UN joint programmes Delivering
  as One"
• Contribution to UNFCCC process

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UN-REDD Programme Objective

• Help REDD see the light of day
• equitable, effective, efficient!
• Governance structure
• Quick Start
• Country actions (9 countries)
• Partnership with other countries
• Global Joint Programme
• 52m contributed by Norway for initial phase
• Implementation phase
• 2012 and beyond

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Global Joint Programme

1. Measurement, Assessment, Reporting Verification
   (MARV)
2. Civil Society Organizations / Indigenous Peoples
   engagement
3. Multiple Benefits
4. UN-coordination, knowledge management and
   outreach

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Coordination with other initiatives

• GEF
• World Bank FCPF and FIP
• Bilateral programmes
• Other CPF members

http//go.worldbank.org/57X9QKTON0
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Global Joint Programme MARV

• Data support
• National monitoring systems
• Training
• Independent review system

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MARV Data support

• - Collaboration with GEOSS-GEO on free RS data
  distribution
• Continuous submission of data to IPCC EFDB
• (Emission Factor Database) for default values

www.earthobservations.org/
www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/EFDB/main.php
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MARV National monitoring systems

• Report on the implementation of LULUCF Guidance
  and AFOLU Guidelines in non-Annex I Countries to
  meet UNFCCC reporting requirements and
  principles
• Inventories should be transparent, consistent,
  comparable, complete and accurate
• principle of conservativeness

To be delivered by Copenhagen 2009 and
complementary to Gofc-Gold REDD Sourcebook on
national monitoring systems
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MARV National monitoring systems

• Guidelines on National Forest Inventory to
  assess carbon stock and carbon stock changes
• compliance with IPCC AFOLU 2006 Guidelines
• analysis on sampling design
• analysis on plot design
• identifying and quantifying uncertainties
• operational implementation (e.g. continuous NFI)
• etc

To be delivered by Copenhagen 2009
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On NFI Sampling design

• Stratification increases efficiency in two main
  ways
• by improving the accuracy of the estimate for
  the entire population
• by ensuring that adequate results are obtained
  for certain subpopulations, e.g., for certain
  forest types. (IPCC GPG)
• Generally (but this will highly depend on
  national circumstances) forest land will be
  further stratified on the basis of biophysical
  characteristics and land-use practices in order
  to create more homogeneous spatial units and the
  intensity of field plots within a stratum will be
  fixed in relation to a chosen probability level
  and allowable sampling error (e.g. Malaysia).

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On NFI Sampling design
third forest stratification level based on forest
land-use practices. Over time strata may change
to follow land use processes
Forest land Lowland forest Managed Or Un-manag
ed
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On plot design
FAO-NFMA ITTO rev new concepts
Sweep sample point
100 m
Different plot design will be evaluated and NFI
may contain different plot design (e.g. Mexico)
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MARV training

• Series of technical workshops (e.g. Forest and
  GHGs Inventory, forest area assessment, SFM, REL
  RL, etc.) in collaboration with CfRN, GTZ, GEF,
  WB, INPE, ICFRE, etc.
• FAO in house capacity (e.g. FRA, FRA-RSS, NFMA,
  etc)
• Collaboration with Brazilian INPE on RS (Prodes,
  Deter, Detex, Degrad, TerraAmazon)
• Collaboration with INDIAN Council of Forestry
  Research and Education (ICFRE) on RS and forest
  inventory ?
• GHGs national inventory with EPA, GTZ, EC, etc..

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MARV Independent review system

• Institution of joint Roster of Expert under
  UN-REDD and FCPF
• Support to UNFCCC Roster of Expert (new experts
  from FAO)
• Independent review of each country REDD national
  monitoring and reporting systems