Table 2 Data availability for RELs for community forestry and degradation
From: Dealing with locally-driven degradation: A quick start option under REDD+
Level | Data available | Data not usually available | |
|---|---|---|---|
Community forest management projects registered for REDD+ | Activity data | Area degraded at the start and at the end of the accounting period (derived from forest inventory and possibly modeling) | Historical rate of change of degraded area (not visible in medium resolution satellite images, high resolution images not available for earlier periods) |
Emissions factors | Stock change over the accounting period (monitored by forest inventory) Biophysical modeling Independently verified, qualitative assessment by experts that area had been degrading in the past. | Historical rate of biomass loss per hectare (not measurable from satellite imagery, no earlier forest inventories) | |
National level | Activity data | Would require geographic modeling over broad areas | Areas subjected to degradation by communities in the past, and rate of change of this area |
Emissions factors | Tier 2 level data on typical standing stock levels | Rate of change of standing stock |