Overview to FRIM/FFPRI REDD-plus
Project in Peninsular Malaysia

Kaoru NIIYAMA (FFPRI) & Ismail bin Harun (FRIM)FFPRI: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan
FRIM: Forest Research Institute Malaysia

Background of collaboration
REDD+ is identified as one of the most effective means to reduce
GHG emission
 A reliable and credible system of measurement, reporting andverification (MRV) of forest carbon changes is a cornerstone of
any national REDD+activity.
 FFPRI and FRIM have had good experiences in forest monitoring
and assessment of deforestation.
 FFPRI established the REDD Research and Developing Centeron 2010Based on these background, we started
FRIM/FFPRI REDD-plus project in Peninsular
Malaysia from 2010

A structure of REDD project
Forestry agency

FFPRI
REDD center

Paraguay teamCambodia team

Malaysia team
Collaboration
FRIM, FD

“Research on Development ofCarbon Monitoring Methodology
for REDD+ in Malaysia”
Purpose
To develop a forest carbon change MRV systemthat can be implemented in REDD+ in Malaysia andother countries.
（Agreement ：MALAYSIAN FORESTRY RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT BOARD, MALAYSIA ＆ FFPRI, Japan)

Specific Objectives: 1) Monitoring land uses and land-use

changes using remote sensing techniques 2) Monitoring forest carbon stocks byground sampling 3) Social and economic analysis of forestchange 4) Development of practical guidelines forforest carbon monitoring for REDD+

Boundary for REDD+
 National or sub-national level
 FRIM/FFPRI REDD+ project study thearea of Peninsular Malaysia
 We chose four scenes ofLand sat

Proposed Project Area
•Preferably all plots will be selected from within 4 Land sat
scenes, namely 126/057, 126/058, 127/057 & 127/058, acommon area of interest with Remote Sensing Group.

•Plots can be supplementary selected from outside of theabove-mentioned area in case if enough plots are notavailable within the areaOutcomes
 This research will give forest maps,

estimation of forest carbon stockchanges and drivers of land use change.
 Results will be so informative tofacilitate a design of MRV system for
REDD+ in other countries
MRV: Measurement Reporting and Verification

Researchers from FRIM &FFPRI
Dr. M.Matsumoto
Director of REDD Research and Development Center
Malaysia

JapanTeam leader

Iamail Harun

Kaoru Niiyama

Remote sensing

Khali Aziz Hamzah
Hamdan Omar binMohd Azahari Faidi

Gen Takao
Yasumasa Hirata

Inventory (biomass) Wan Mohd Shukri
Nur Hajar bt Zamah Shari

Tamotsu Sato
Kaoru Niiyama

Socio/economic

Motoe Miyamoto
Tetsuya Michinaka

Mohd Farid bin Mamat
Noor Aini binti Zakaria

Schedules of REDD project2010(Apr.2010-March 2011)
Conclusion of agreement between FFPRI and FRIM
Funding from FFPRI to FRIMFirst report from FRIM
2011(Apr.2011-March 2012)
Remote sensing image analysis and ground truthe
Inventory ( biomass measurements) by FRIM and FFPRI
Analysis of socio/economic drivers by FRIM and FFPRI
2012(Apr.2012-March 2013)
Remote sensing image analysis and ground truthe
Inventory ( biomass measurements) by FRIM and FFPRI
Analysis of socio/economic drivers
To make a MRV guideline for REDD+
REDD work shop at KL
2013-2015: We continued above REDD+ project activities
Now a final seminar and workshop is opening

Terema kasih！