How countries link forest monitoring into policy-making

Neeff, Till; Piazza, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102248

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“…Included within the concept of REDD+ is the provision of financial resources to developing countries that slow, halt, and reverse deforestation, referred to as "results-based finance". Such finance is dependent on National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) that are accessible, transparent, reliable, credible, and can support national processes [6], including providing data and information for REDD+ reporting. There are limited financial resources to reward REDD+ performance; therefore, accurate REDD+ data can promote the efficient use of such resources.…”

Section: The Important Role Of Forests In Climate Change Mitigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, there are many benefits to countries analyzing their own data and developing a NFMS for reporting as well as informing national decision-making processes. Accessible, transparent, reliable, credible, and relevant NFMS can result in better decision making for forests and have contributed, for example, to driving down deforestation in Brazil, and the implementation of sustainable forest management in Cameroon [6].…”

Section: The Value Of Global Forest Area Change Products In Redd+ Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Importance of High–Quality Data for REDD+ Monitoring and Reporting

Sandker

Carrillo²,

Leng

et al. 2021

Forests

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This article discusses the importance of quality deforestation area estimates for reliable and credible REDD+ monitoring and reporting. It discusses how countries can make use of global spatial tree cover change assessments, but how considerable additional efforts are required to translate these into national deforestation estimates. The article illustrates the relevance of countries’ continued efforts on improving data quality for REDD+ monitoring by looking at Mexico, Cambodia, and Ghana. The experience in these countries show differences between deforestation areas assessed directly from maps and improved sample-based deforestation area estimates, highlighting significant changes in both magnitude and trend of assessed deforestation from both methods. Forests play an important role in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, and therefore the ability of countries to accurately measure greenhouse gases from forests is critical. Continued efforts by countries are needed to produce credible and reliable data. Supporting countries to continually increase the quality of deforestation area estimates will also support more efficient allocation of finance that rewards REDD+ results-based payments.

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Section: The Important Role Of Forests In Climate Change Mitigationmentioning

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Section: The Value Of Global Forest Area Change Products In Redd+ Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of High–Quality Data for REDD+ Monitoring and Reporting

Sandker

Carrillo²,

Leng

et al. 2021

Forests

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“…The forest cover change estimates provide essential information to guide policy formulation and implementation in protecting forests with better decision making in government programmes and other forest protection fiscal incentive projects [62]-notably, for addressing issues such as the UN Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and Green House Gas (GHG) as international reporting commitments and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over fighting deforestation [16]. The result identified 157,204 ha of forest loss for 2019 in Tanzania, presenting 0.39% loss of intact forest, close to the global forest change analysis of Hansen et al [14] (version 1.7), which mapped 142,773 ha in the same period.…”

Section: Forest Change Area Estimatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Forest Monitoring System for Tanzania

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Tropical forests provide essential ecosystem services related to human livelihoods. However, the distribution and condition of tropical forests are under significant pressure, causing shrinkage and risking biodiversity loss across the tropics. Tanzania is currently undergoing significant forest cover changes, but monitoring is limited, in part due to a lack of remote sensing knowledge, tools and methods. This study has demonstrated a comprehensive approach to creating a national-scale forest monitoring system using Earth Observation data to inform decision making, policy formulation, and combat biodiversity loss. A systematically wall-to-wall forest baseline was created for 2018 through the application of Landsat 8 imagery. The classification was developed using the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) machine-learning algorithm, and achieved an accuracy of 89% and identified 45.76% of the country’s area to be covered with forest. Of those forested areas, 45% was found within nationally protected areas. Utilising an innovative methodology based on a forest habitat suitability analysis, the forest baseline was classified into forest types, with an overall accuracy of 85%. Woodlands (open and closed) were found to make up 79% of Tanzania’s forests. To map changes in forest extent, an automated system for downloading and processing of the Landsat imagery was used along with the XGBoost classifiers trained to define the national forest extent, where Landsat 8 scenes were individually downloaded and processed and the identified changes summarised on an annual basis. Forest loss identified for 2019 was found to be 157,204 hectares, with an overall accuracy of 82%. These forest losses within Tanzania have already triggered ecological problems and alterations in ecosystem types and species loss. Therefore, a forest monitoring system, such as the one presented in this study, will enhance conservation programmes and support efforts to save the last remnants of Tanzania’s pristine forests.

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“…We therefore urgently need to understand how tree species and forest communities respond to climate change in order to predict whether current reforestation efforts will meet climate targets. To this end, long-term forest monitoring programmes that coincide with and field experiments that test unusually strong or long periods of drought provide valuable data on the effects of climate change on tree performances and forest carbon dynamics (Anderson-Teixeira et al, 2015;Bonal et al, 2016), which in turn can improve dynamic vegetation models and facilitate data-driven policies on forest restoration (Neeff & Piazza, 2020).…”

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Species- and community-level demographic responses of saplings to drought during tropical secondary succession

Lai,

Cheeseman,

Hall

et al. 2024

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Naturally regenerating secondary vegetation dominates the tropical forest landscapes, showing a remarkable capacity to sequester carbon, but such a role is threatened by increasing drought predicted with climate change. To understand how secondary forest species and communities respond to drought, we leverage a long-term chronosequence of tropical successional forests from Central Panama that coincided with the 2015/16 El Niño extreme drought event to analyse the diameter growth and mortality of 113,505 saplings and 60 species under water stress. As expected, drought negatively impacted most species in either diameter growth, mortality, or both. However, we additionally found that neighbourhood basal area ameliorated or exacerbated the effect of drought on diameter growth of some species. These species-level demographic responses aggregated to a community-level shift from the dominance of drought-susceptible saplings to more drought-tolerant saplings during stand development. Our study highlights that sapling communities in older secondary forests were less sensitive to drought: they suffered less growth reduction possibly due to denser canopies that mitigated evapotranspiration, and they also experienced lower mortality due to a higher relative abundance of drought-resistant species. Saplings in young secondary forests were overall more susceptible to drought, but their responses were also highly variable, suggesting a potential in understanding why some young secondary forest communities are more drought-tolerant, a knowledge that can be leveraged to restore resilient forests necessary to withstand a future of increased drought frequency and severity under a changing climate.

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How countries link forest monitoring into policy-making

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

The Importance of High–Quality Data for REDD+ Monitoring and Reporting

The Importance of High–Quality Data for REDD+ Monitoring and Reporting

A Forest Monitoring System for Tanzania

Species- and community-level demographic responses of saplings to drought during tropical secondary succession

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