Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emisions from Deforestation and Degradation in Developing Countries: A Sourcebook of Methods and Procedures for Monitoring, Measuring and Reporting

This sourcebook is the outcome of an ad-hoc REDD working group of "Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dinamics" (GOFC-GOLD), a technical panel of the Global Terrestrial Observing System. GOFC-GOLD provides an independent expert plataform for international cooperation to formulate scientific consensus and provide techinical input to the discussions. This first draft version provides a consensus perspective from de global community of earth observation and carbon experts on methodological issues relating to quantifying the green house gas impacts of implementing activities to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD). Based on the current status of negotiations and UNFCCC approved methodologies, this sourcebook aims to provide additional explanation, clarification and methodologies to support REDD early actions and readiness mechanisms for building national REDD monitoring systems. Respective communities are invited to provide comments and feeback to evolve a refined technical-guidelines document in the future.