Fires in Southeast Asia have negative impacts on biodiversity and climate, emitting CO2 and other greenhouse gases, while smoke and haze have health and economic impacts.
USAID LEAF is supporting villages in Lao PDR to make more sustainable use of their land, with the goal of reducing local deforestation and forest degradation. In partnership with the Lao Department of Forestry and the Provincial and District Agriculture and Forestry Offices, USAID LEAF has been introducing participatory land use planning (PLUP) to local communities in Laos.
Degradation affects up to 100 million hectares of forest every year, which is nearly 10 times greater than the area impacted by deforestation. However there is very little guidance on how to detect, measure and monitor forest degradation.
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To ensure economic expansion while also contributing to global efforts to combat climate change, many developing countries are adopting Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) among other initiatives. Because the agriculture, forestry and land use (AFOLU) sectors are key economic areas in many developing countries, they are a central focus of LEDS.
This tool is part of the LEAF-produced Terrestrial Carbon Assessment Toolkit, which provides step-by-step requirements to estimate terrestrial carbon stocks and emission factors from various land cover types; critical for any climate change mitigation effort. This toolkit provides the most up-to-date methods used to estimate carbon stocks and emissions, which will allow for a more seamless app
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Abstract:
This report discusses options for identifying and developing forest monitoring methodologies that can estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest degradation.
This report discusses options for identifying and developing forest monitoring methodologies that can estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest degradation.
This report discusses options for identifying and developing forest monitoring methodologies that can estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest degradation.
This brief was created as an outcome from the Reduced-Impact Logging: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies in the Emerging Forest Carbon Economy workshop, held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia in May 2012.
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