Assessment for drivers for Guyana

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Assessment for drivers for Guyana
GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office, FSU Jena,
Germany www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de
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Issues to develop a REDD MRV system

• Requirements for national MRV system
• International principles and procedures
  specified by the IPCC Good Practice Guidelines
• National needs and priorities of the national
  REDD policy and implementation strategy
• Bridging the capacity gap
• Assessment of existing national forest
  monitoring technical capabilities versus the
  requirements for the MRV system
• Develop a roadmap to build sustained in-country
  capacities for MRV

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Drivers and processes of deforestation
Proximate causes
Underlying causes
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Moving ahead with REDD in Guyana

• Current understanding of Guyanas historical and
  current drivers and processes causing changes
  (/-) in forest carbon?
• On the level to develop policies for addressing
  them?
• What REDD opportunities maybe envisioned?
• Reduce emissions from deforestation?
• Reduce degradation? Any illegal activities?
• Foster sustainable forest management?
• Conservation of intact forests (multiple
  benefits)?
• Increase carbon sink capacity (plantations of
  non-forest land, enrichment planting)?
• Long-term stabilization of the terrestrial carbon
  reservoir and low carbon land use?

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Gap filling exercises for evolving MRV REDD
readiness
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Deforestation Drivers

• Quick Assessment Results from Guyana Forestry
  Commission study based on remote sensing imagery
  (Landsat)
• impact observed in period 2007/08
• deforestation 54,210 ha (24,044 ha in SFE)
• new forest roads 2626 km (2329 km in SFE)
• correlation of deforestation and road density
  confirmed
• major deforestation drivers (Quick Assessment
  Report, 2009/07/09)
• mining (24,428 ha)
• agriculture (21,902 ha)
• main area
• NW regions of Guyana (large concession lease
  areas)
• more detailed analysis and quantitative
  assessment for the impact on carbon stocks
  required

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Drivers of forest carbon change

• What are processes that effect forest carbon
  stocks (positive and negative)?
• Who is doing it and for what purpose (historical,
  current, future)?
• What are the effects on the forest (carbon) in
  the short and long-term?
• Are these changes monitored and how?
• How important is the process nationally?
• Are there any (climate friendly) alternatives to
  achieve the similar benefits for the people who
  own the forests?