Land management plays a crucial role in addressing climate change, which makes transparent monitoring essential. Countries have considerable flexibility in setting targets, defining the scope of the land sector, and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from it. They are, however, required to do this in a manner that promotes transparency and provides sufficient accuracy, completeness, comparability, and consistency.
An unprecedent amount of data is currently generated globally. It is available for assessing how land use and land management change over time and what the implications for greenhouse gas emissions and removals are. This data richness can serve as a solid foundation for generating high-quality products and services for tracking carbon stock changes. However, this large amount of information is also leading to confusion, with competing definitions and misinterpretation.
The Transparent Monitoring project identified a set of criteria designed to overcome such challenges and strengthen the effectiveness of monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from the land sector. These criteria are introduced in this Book I. Transparent monitoring approaches refer to datasets, tools, and portals that support countries’ needs in the land sector, by providing complementary data to what is mandated by their own monitoring systems.
By taking advantage of transparent monitoring approaches, countries can increase their capacities for monitoring and reporting GHG emissions and removals from the land sector and advance in the implementation of the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). Book II includes a collection of case studies demonstrating successful implementation of transparent monitoring approaches.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor-icraf/009367Dimensions Nombre de citations:
Année de publication
2025
Auteurs
Böttcher, H.; Urrutia, C.; Benndorf, A.; Martius, C.; Atmadja, S.; Boissiere, M.; Hergoualc’h, K.; Larson, A.M.; Pratihast, A.; Malaga Duran, N.; Masolele, R.; Fritz, S.; McCallum, I.; Pirker, J.; Walker, N.; Cooper, L.; Kalman, R.
Langue
English
Mots clés
monitoring, greenhouse gas emissions, data analysis, deforestation, information, policy, land use, governance
Géographique
Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, Peru
