Forest Monitoring

Emission Reductions

Quantifying the contribution of forests to climate change mitigation involves assessing forest-related emission reductions and increases in carbon removal. Emission reduction (ER) assessments are crucial for country access to results-based payments, climate finance, or incorporating these reductions into country’s nationally determined contribution (NDC). ERs are assessed against the reference level. Countries report REDD+ emission reductions to the UNFCCC in the technical annex of the biennial update report or biennial transparency report (BUR/BTR). Jurisdictional carbon standards (national or subnational in scale, excluding REDD+ projects) do not use UNFCCC reports but have their own reporting schemes, including ERs submissions in monitoring reports. This section gives an overview of both UNFCCC reported ERs and ERs reported to the jurisdictional REDD+ schemes Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART-TREES) and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Carbon Fund (FCPF-CF).

ERs Reported to the UNFCCC

REDD+ technical annex submissions

This section shows the​ BUR/BTR technical annexes submitted per year, as part of their efforts to receive results-based payments.

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Emission reductions reported

​This section shows the total annual forest-related ERs estimates. It does not include all ERs from the forest sector, as reporting is voluntary.​

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ERs Reported to Jurisdictional Schemes

Monitoring report submissions

This section shows the monitoring reports submitted per year by countries to the FCPF-CF and the ART-TREES Program.

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Emission reductions reported

This section shows the total annual forest-related ERs achieved by countries under the FCPF-CF and ART-TREES programs. ​

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E-Learning

Measurement, reporting and verification for environmental integrity: Introduction
15/11/2024

This course highlights the importance of forests in climate change mitigation and how quality measurement, verification and reporting (MRV) is needed...

Events

25/ 11

2024

Hybrid Event, 25/11/2024

The international community will gather in Rome, Italy, from 25 to 28 November 2024 for the global forum "Enhancing forest monitoring through global collaboration: A south-south knowledge exchange".

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Publications
21/03/2024

This paper reviews how countries are benefiting from technical innovations in their monitoring and reporting of forest-related emissions and removals to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

16/11/2022

This report provides an overview of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) modalities for REDD+ reporting and additional technical Measurement, Reporting and Verification requirements from different standards...

28/12/2020

The aim of this paper is to inform countries about recent developments in the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of REDD+ activities under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...

Videos
21/03/2024

How innovation is driving change in forestry. More info https://bit.ly/49QPPWf #ForestDay