Side event at the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC - Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute. REDD-plus and Forest-DRR Research and Development Center.

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What can National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) do? - Development of NFMS and MRV systems for REDD+

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The REDD Research and Development Center held a side-event entitled "What can National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) do? - Development of NFMS and MRV system for REDD+ -" at the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. In this side-event, possibilities and further challenges for the development of forest carbon monitoring systems will be presented and discussed based on the results and experiences from countries' ground-oriented activities. A technical manual on NFMS and MRV for REDD+, "REDD+ Cookbook", will be unveiled.

What can National Forest Monitoring Systems do?

REDD-plus COOKBOOK

Date: Nov. 28, 2012

Venue: Room 7, Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar

Presentations / Speakers

- What can National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) do? - Development of NFMS and MRV system for REDD+ [Dr. Mitsuo Matsumoto (FFPRI)]

- Potential of integrating Community Based Forest Monitoring into NFMS [Dr. Makino Yamanoshita (IGES)]

- Challenges of Vast Land and Inaccessibility: Development of PNG Forest Resource Information and Monitoring System? Combined approach of Ground-based Survey and Remote Sensing (Mr. Gewa Gamoga and Mr. Constin Otto Bigol (JICA/PNGFA Project))

- National Monitoring System for the Effective Conservation and Sustainable Management of Forest Resources in Thailand [Dr. Hwan-Ok Ma (ITTO)]

- Development of NFMS in Vietnam - Cooperation between Central and Region in MRV system [Mr. Kei Suzuki (JAFTA/JICA)]