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The Challenge of REDD Design: Considerations on Uncertainty and its Implications on Policy Options, and Data Needs for Monitoring and Verification

The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC)

Location: 218, 2nd floor, Collegium Maius

The success of REDD will likely depend on a better understanding of the uncertainties faced when implementing a REDD program. WHRC experts will discuss different aspects of uncertainty relevant in REDD design. The objective of the session is to examine how the design of a comprehensive REDD program is affected by uncertainty in land use projections, forest measurements, and monitoring. Implications will be discussed for policy options, remote sensing, forest survey, and ancillary data needs.

Chair:
Tracy Johns, WHRC

Time

Title of presentation

Speaker & Institution

File(s)

14:30 – 14:45

The IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry – Reporting and Uncertainty: A review of the GPG approach

Tracy Johns, WHRC

 3.2 MB

14:45 – 15:05

How would existing REDD policy proposals perform under uncertainty?

Andrea Cattaneo, WHRC

 394 KB

15:05 – 15:25

How does uncertainty of biomass estimates vary with spatial aggregation?

Alessandro Baccini, WHRC

 3.6 MB

15:25 – 15:45

The Role of High-Resolution Radar Imagery to Reduce Uncertainties in Tropical Forest Mapping

Josef Kellndorfer, WHRC

 4 MB

15:45 – 16:00

Panel discussion

 

  
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