Abstract
In the context of REDD+, Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) is one way to manage forest change information. A national carbon and non-carbon database will be used in REDD+ to negotiate compensation schemes with the international community. Much of this data will be collected at the local level, thus a reporting system that can integrate these locally collected data into the national database is crucial. In this paper we compare and draw lessons from three existing local to national reporting systems that include the participation of local communities: 1) the government extension services, 2) the government owned forestry company, and 3) a private logging company in Indonesia, and provide recommendations for REDD+ reporting systems. The results suggest that the main desired conditions for effective data flow are: benefits to motivate local participation, based on contributions to reporting activities; simple data format and reporting procedures to allow local participation in the reporting process, and to support data aggregation at the national level; a facilitator to mediate data aggregation at the village level to ensure data consistency, completeness and accuracy; and a transparent and clear data flow. Under these conditions, continuous, accountable and consistent data flow from the local level will reach the national level where it can be fully utilized.
Highlights
Deforestation contributes between 6 and 17% to global anthropogenic CO2 emissions
Our aim was to answer these three questions: 1) how is various data exchanged across multiple sectoral institutions or government levels, 2) how is consistency and data quality throughout this process ensured, and 3) what lessons can we draw from these reporting systems that could be used in MRV for REDD+ in Indonesia
We looked at three crucial components of existing reporting systems: 1) the data: what type of data is collected and reported; 2) obtaining the data: how the data are acquired from the community; and 3) the data flow: how the data are collected and reported to higher levels
Summary
Deforestation contributes between 6 and 17% to global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation including conservation, sustainable management and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+) is an international climate change mitigation mechanism in which a quantified reduction in carbon emissions will be incentivized [1,2,3]. In the context of REDD+, this reduction in carbon emissions should be measured, reported and verified (MRV) in a consistent, comparable, transparent and accurate. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript
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