Category: reference levels
LEAF Decision Support Tool for Developing Reference Levels for REDD+
The LEAF (Lowering Emissions in Asia's Forests) website includes a variety of resources (by topic, type or country) and tools related to technical capacity building focused on REDD+, climate change mitigation, gender mainstreaming, and policy and market incentives for improved forest management and land-use planning in Asia. This document is a draft methodological framework to help FCPF countries enhance their near term capacity for producing RLs/RELs as part of their eventual REDD+...
Report on the Expert Meeting on Forest Reference Emission Levels and Forest Reference Levels for Implementation of REDD+ Activities
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice requested the secretariat to organize meetings of technical experts on methodological issues referred to in document FCCC/SBSTA/2011/2, paragraphs 28 and 29, including a meeting before its thirty-fifth session. A second meeting of technical experts, on forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels for implementation of REDD-plus activities, took place in Bonn, Germany, from 14 to 15 November 2011...
Estimating Reference Emission Level and Project Emission Level for REDD Projects in Tropical Forests
The REDD scheme of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a carbon-based compensation for projects that resulted in reducing carbon emissions or enhancing carbon sinks or both in tropical forests. However, estimating such emissions and sinks remains challenging, and thus making it impossible to estimate carbon revenues from managing tropical forests. Here, we estimated the reduced emissions and sinks by developing models for setting Reference Emission Level (REL) and...
Moving ahead with REDD: Issues, options and implications
This book highlights the fact that countries differ widely in terms of their MRV infrastructure, institutional capacity to implement REDD policies and measures, drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and so on. This heterogeneity needs to be reflected in the global REDD architecture. The mechanisms must be flexible enough to ensure broad country participation from the beginning. At the same time, they should also include incentives ‘to move on’, for...
