How to cook REDD-plus ?
- HOW TO MEASURE AND MONITOR FOREST CARBON -Yasumasa Hirata
REDD Research & Development Center
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute1

Recalling REDD(-plus)…
Forest degradation
Positive incentive
Deforestation

Conservation

MRV
RL/REL

Safeguards
Phased approach

Enhancement

Sustainable management
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Recalling REDD(-plus)…

Positive incentive

RL/REL

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MRV of Forest Monitoring
Measurement

MRV

Reporting

Verification
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MRV of Forest Monitoring
Measurement(d) To establish, according to national circumstances and capabilities,
robust and transparent national forest monitoring systems and, if
appropriate, sub-national systems as part of national monitoring
systems that:(i) Use a combination of remote sensing and ground-based forest
carbon inventory approaches for estimating, as appropriate,
anthropogenic forest-related greenhouse gas emissions bysources and removals by sinks, forest carbon stocks and forest
area changes;

FCCC/CP/2009/11/Add.1

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Why Cookbook is needed?
• Capacity building for every
stakeholders is crucial• REDD+ needs wide range oftechnical knowledge (satelliteimagery, ground-based survey…)• Many jargons (phased
approach, safeguards…)• Many good technicalmanuals are exist but
not always user-friendly
6Target of “Cookbook”
Introduction
Reference Guidefor the policy makers and their partnerorganizations

Planning

providing users with
useful information byproposing or showing
examplesfor the REDD-plus implementing
organizations/countries

Technicalfor the experts who work on the REDDplus activities

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Framework of “Cookbook”
Introduction
Chapter 1 - About REDD-plus
Chapter 2 - Designing a forest monitoring system

Planning
Chapter 3 - Basic knowledge needed for REDD+ implementation
Chapter 4 - Measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of forest carbon
Chapter 5 - Monitoring by the stock change method

Technical
Chapter 6 - Preparation of REDD+ implementation
Chapter 7 - Estimation of forest area using remote sensing
Chapter 8 - Permanent sample plot method
Chapter 9 - Estimation models for forest carbon stocks
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Unit and structure of the “Cookbook”• In the sections “Introduction”,“Planning”, and “Technical”,
knowledge and the sufficient skills
required to address REDD-plus arecompiled in units called “recipe”.
• Users can easily go throughthe items in each recipe toin-depth recipe orreferences in accordancewith the flow chart.
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IPCC method to estimate GHG gas emissions
from activities related with LULUCF sector

Danilo Mollicone, FAO
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Main flow of forest carbon monitoring
I03 MRV of forest monitoring

P04 Measurement
ACTIVITYDATA

P07 Stock Change method

P08 Area estimation using RS

EMISSION
FACTORS

P09 Estimation of carbon stocks per unit area

P12 Calculation of emissions and removals

P13 REL/RL

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Area estimation using remote sensing
P08 Area estimation using remote sensing
T05 Sensor types,data selection
T06 Clouds
and seasonality
T07 Definitionof a class

T10 Accuracy
evaluation
T09 Classification
methods

T08 Ground truth
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Estimation of carbon stocks per unit area
P09 Estimation of carbon stocks
per unit area
P10 Permanent sample plot
methodT12 Selecting the numberand arrangement
T13 Measurement of PSPs

T14 Analysis of PSP data

P11 Using a stand carbon stock
estimation model
T15 Model design
T16 Overstory
height method

T19 Backscattering
coefficient method
T18 Community agemethod

T17 Crown
diameter method

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Design of “Recipe”

14Structure of “Recipe”

Recipe number
Recipe title

SummaryMain text15

Reference Guide guide16

Contributors
Editors
Yasumasa Hirata, Gen Takao, Tamotsu Sato, Junpei Toriyama

Authors
Shinichi Aikawa, Satoshi Akahori, Yoshio Awaya, Makoto Ehara,
Naoyuki Furuya, Yasumasa Hirata, Kimihiko Hyakumura, Toshiro
Iehara, Eriko Ito, Tsuyosi Kajisa, Satoko Kawarasaki, Yoshiyuki
Kiyono, Mitsuo Matsumoto, Toshiya Matsuura, Nobuya Mizoue,
Yukako Monda, Tetsushi Ohta, Hideki Saito, Akinobu Sato, TamotsuSato, Kei Suzuki, Gen Takao, Shinya Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Tomo,Junpei Toriyama, Naoko Tsukada, Satoshi Tsuyuki, Yasuhiro Yokota

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Download it Now
And Let’s cook REDD+!
http://www.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/redd-rdc/en/reference/cookbook.html

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