Cambodia’s FREL/FRL
Chivin Leng (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,Cambodia)

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Cambodia’s FREL/FRL 1
Chivin Leng (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia)

I will be talking briefly on our national REDD+ strategies and move ahead to the specificobjective of the discussion today.
Overview of FRLThis is us, so everyone concerned.

I just would like to take this opportunity to say that among

those four components that we have to be submitted for results-based payment, Cambodia has
completed three.
Safeguard may be still in doubt.

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We are still in cooperation with JICA to produce this one.

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This is the country’s information. We have 181,000 square kilometers and a population of moreor less 15 million that is increasing very fast. We are a tropical rainforest country.
have more than 13 million hectares of forest.

From the past, we

The annual rainfall is between 2100 to 3000 mm.

You can imagine that from the image of vegetation where mostly it covers entire Cambodia, but now
let us see here.

This is one of the graphs showing that we are decreasing rapidly.
that you have been seeing just now, most of is gone.

More or less, the vegetation

Especially the recent assessment is showing

compared to the previous assessment, it is showing where it was, but this is according to our nationaldefinition.

I will talk more how it is different between national definition and the FREL definition

under the REDD+ Program.
I am touching on the national REDD+ strategy that we are establishing.

We have four technicalgroups plus a consultation group and the Cambodian REDD+ task force.

We build on readinessphase step-wise approach.

We are following steps one through four, and finally we have also intent tosubmit to COP, but now the focal point of doing this one is still in doubt.

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Chivin Leng (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,Cambodia)

This is how the national REDD+ strategy is moving.

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One out of four requirements underWarsaw Framework that is Cambodia has ambition to move rapidly from results-based payment toresults-based finance under the Warsaw Framework.

The existing government policy is there that weare following. Especially we are addressing drivers of deforestation.
This is the purpose of REDD+.

There are many so I will not go into detail.

The first thingthat has come in the first is this REDD+ is enhancement and implementation of domestic policy
especially to conserve our sustainable forest management by providing social support to local
livelihood.

This is the scope and scale of REDD+ development.
scopes.

We are especially considering only two

Those are deforestation and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks through afforestationand deforestation activity.

Among those five activities under REDD+, we are addressing two; one

mainly, but at this time we are considering another one, which is the forest degradation.
Our goal is that we are following the step-wise approach.

We have three steps, but now we cansay that we have passed this step, so we are moving to the piloting or testing our methodology andpractice.

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This is what we are talking about today.

How is the Cambodian FREL being developed?

This is the overall progress of Cambodian FREL. We have completed the document.

Thisdocument, because of a linkage between national forest monitoring system and this FREL, we arelikely completed.

What is the constraint is that we have already submitted for the government

approval, so we are waiting for this issue. We intend to submit next month also.
push on. We aim to participate from this year for the technical assessment.

This is what I will

The main reason fromFREL under UNFCCC, but the important last point is the country would like to assess results-based
payment.

This shows the composition of relevant institutes, as our friend from Myanmar said, one country
mapping.

Cambodia also uses the one country mapping. Comparing from the previous one, it iswhat we call separately or individual consideration reason, but now as you can see that ranging frominternational to national to this one is represented from indigenous group and research faculty, etcetera,so we are quite unique.

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Chivin Leng (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,Cambodia)

That is the purpose of establishment of FREL Cambodia.
climate change mitigation.

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The first is to assess performance ofFREL is developed both for domestic and international use. We arefocused more on our domestic consumption for sustainable forest management.
implementing for future REDD+ activity, this is very important.

To support

Therefore, FREL can be as thebenchmark step to have a measurement on implementing REDD+ activity.

To define the period todevelop and revise in FREL is according to cycle, so Cambodia considers a four-year cycle.

Todevelop FREL in Cambodia is primarily for UNFCCC, but we are also considering the climate financeexternal to UNFCCC for support.
The FRELs under development are what we consider as a national scale. We develop from thetop-down, but at the same time, many projects already started from the bottom.
availability.

Until now we still continue to collect those land-use data.

The biggest issue isAccording to step-wise

approach from now on until the next assessment, we will continue improving our accuracy mapping.
Institutional collaboration: the forest is under three institutions responsible for Cambodia.

Lastly, it

is because of immediate goal to submit to UNFCCC.

The activities: we are considering deforestation.
degradation.

This year we are also in the work plan of forestHow we can be testing forest degradation assessment?

The pool that we consider isaboveground biomass and belowground biomass. For the future, we will consider deadwood, litter,

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Session 1and soil. For the gas, we consider carbon dioxide because it is a major contribution to Cambodianemissions from the forest sector.
This is the overall view explaining the historical data that we are selecting in the construction of
the FREL approach. We consider three different map studies, but in comparing them, we just have
only two endpoints. From these three mappings, we already have the national assessment at thenational scale, but under REDD we are considering these three mappings and revising those threemappings by checking consistency, adjustments, and other things.

Therefore, we have a very niceresult for FREL construction.

This is the result for FREL under the REDD+ program for Cambodia.

We are following slightlydifferent from our national definition. We are considering a bit different.

What is different is that

we are excluded from the national definition.

It is the perennial crops, oil palm, rubber, and land withland-use function (example: economic land concessions).
the national definition.

In Cambodia we verify and subtract from

The minimum mapping unit is five hectares, so different, and also the classes.

Previously, we consider only eight classes, but under REDD+ we consider land cover and land use.
Therefore, it will become 22 classes.

That is the graph showing the result.

You can imagine thatfrom this year in 2006 to this year 2010, and comparing 2014, my goodness!
That is the result showing the carbon dioxide emission and removals in tons per year.

The minus

one is showing the emission part, so you can compare from 2006 to 2010 and 2010 to 2014. For
example, from the net total annual carbon dioxide emissions and removal, you can see from here andhere.

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Chivin Leng (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,Cambodia)

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This map is showing a new map that we have produced under consistency, accuracy, and otherthings. We have produced three new maps.

The first one is in 2006 under 22 classes; 2010, 2014,

last updated maps.
This is the map cover change.

That is the methodology we are considering, which is historical average.
selecting this methodology is because of conservativeness.
are thinking that eight years is more conservative.

The available data is still limited, so we

The adjustment to national circumstance will bereviewed, especially from memorandum of government policy in 2012.
projection.

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The reason we are

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Future Trends

This is the future trend.

There are a number of points that I am bringing.

number of trends for national context points continued at too high a level.
emission levels.

The first point isThat means the highYou can see the time from 2010 to 2014 rapidly drop down, so we are not expectedthat from 2015 it is stopping.
we would like to address.

We are thinking that it still continued to be too high.

This one issue

We would like to say that, if the government is feeling, doing wellgovernance and other things then we will conserve our forests.
future it is still considering high emissions.

However, for this reason for theThe historical emissions over this construction period

from 2006 to 2014 represented that it is conservativeness for construction of FREL.
This is showing the FRL validity comparing to our schedules to submit BUR and national
communications (NC).

I think the slide is in your hand, so just showing that Cambodians haveplanned to produce and submit it.

These are the constraints.

Forest definition is one.

considering the next activity, it is forest degradation.
Thank you.

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Data access everyone is facing and