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

作者：Martin Herold, Margaret Skutsch · 发表于：Environmental Research Letters · 年份：2011 · DOI：10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014002 · 被引用次数：548 · 研究领域：Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management、Forest Management and Policy、Land Use and Ecosystem Services

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 intensi...