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Qualitative and quantitative assessment of changes of forests in the framework of the Kyoto Protocoll (Articel 3.3, avoided deforestation) using the example of Madagascar (pilot study) and other tropical countries
Project
Project code: TI-WF-08-PID498
Contract period: 01.07.2007
- 30.09.2013
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Approximately 16% of the anthropogenic global greenhouse gas emissions originate from deforestation and forest degradation. Therefore, the reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) plays an important role in the international climate negotiations. On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture (BMEL) we develop in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation operational methods for the assessment of means of forest protection. On this, a two-year pilot study was carried out in Madagascar. The cooperation partners in Madagascar are inter alia local and national forest authorities and the forest institute of the University of Antananarivo (ESSA Forêts). In this project, we elaborated an inventory methodology for the objective and periodical quantitative determination of deforestation and its resulting release of carbon from a regional to national basis. The methodology is based on the use of satellite data in combination with terrestrial inventories. Furthermore we contributed to regional based studies on the causes of deforestation in Madagascar and their potential of reduction. The results of the project are the basis for the recommendations of the Thünen-Institute to the BMEL to the international negotiations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These recommendations show the possibilities but also highlight the difficulties in the implementation of the REDD mechanism as an instrument of international climate negotiations. For this we developed a basic understanding of the causes of deforestation, of the development of baselines and of inventories. In particular, the critical aspect of the accuracy of inventories (uncertainties) queries the operationality of political approaches in this regard. Countries should be rewarded if they destroy less forest. For this, changes in forest cover, degradation and biomass losses have to be accurately reported and verified. Furthermore, we worked on principles how natural forests in the tropics can be managed economically sustainable - an approach to forest conservation. The Thünen-Institute was able to elaborated bring these topics directly into the international negotiations.
Section overview
Subjects
- Forestry
- Agroeconomics
- Climate Change
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics (TI-IW)
