Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & Forest Degradation (REDD+) Training REDD+ Measurement, Reporting & Verification

Forests are both source and sink of carbon and, therefore, are now integral component of international efforts dealing with climate change. Degradation and conversion of forests in general, and tropical forests in particular to other land uses are major causes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions besides fossil fuel burning. Therefore, it becomes imperative to address deforestation as part of an integrated strategy to reduce global GHG emissions.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) programs under Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries aims to achieve the climate change mitigation objectives

Main Training Modules.

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & Forest Degradation (REDD+)     

• Introduction to REDD+, IPCC, UNFCCC
• Climate Change and the Role of Forests
• Drivers for deforestation and degradation
• UNFCCC context and requirements
• REDD+ Safeguards under the UNFCCC
• Community based monitoring
• Carbon emission estimations
• GHG emission estimation from Biomass burning
• Current and evolving technologies
• Performance reporting for REDD+

Concept of REDD and REDD+

• Climate change
• Forest and Climate Change
• Evolution of REDD+ under UNFCCC
• Cancun Agreements on REDD+
• REDD+ safeguards

REDD+: Carbon Market and Financial Mechanism       

• Carbon: a new tradable commodity
• Voluntary Forest Carbon Offsetting Market
• REDD+ Financial Mechanism
• Green Climate Fund (GCF) 10
• Voluntary Carbon standards

Project Planning and Implementation      

• Orientation/Capacity Building Program for Local Community
• Provision for capacity building of women participants of the project areas

Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV)          

• Sample Plot Layout
• Field Measurement
• Above Ground Tree Biomass Measurement
• Above Ground Non-Tree Biomass Measurements
• Soil Organic Carbon
• Estimation of Total Biomass and Carbon Stock
• Estimation of Total Carbon Stocks from all the pools
• Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System in MRV
• Baseline
• Forest Stratification
• Sampling Design
• Permanent Sample Plot
• Identification of Drivers of Deforestation and Forest Degradation
• Leakage Analysis
• Estimation of Net Emission Reduction and Removals (NERs)
• Monitoring Plan
• Reporting
• Verification

Training Evaluation

Participants will undertake a simple assessment before the training to gauge knowledge & skills and another assessment will be done after the training in-order to demonstrate knowledge gained through the training.