Integrating CBM into MRV activities of projects financed by the Alliance in the Early Action Areas of REDD+ in Mexico (2013)

Consultancy report prepared for The Nature Conservancy (TNC).

This document presents a basic approach to community based monitoring (CBM) in the
Mexican setting of REDD+. The objective is to present firstly, a brief description of the
projects  being  implemented  in the  early  action  areas  (EAA)  financed  by the  Alliance
Mexico REDD+ (Alliance), secondly a proposal for the integration of CBM into the projects’
activities and finally a discussion of the potential linkages to the MRV system. The Alliance
is providing resources for the implementation of REDD+ activities in 13 projects located
within the EAA of Chihuahua, Yucatan Peninsula, Chiapas, Cutzamala Basin and Oaxaca.
These projects are implementing different activities to mitigate climate change including a
wide variety of actors, strategies and scopes. The creation of a comparable and consistent
system to monitor, report  and  verify the  outcomes  of  implementation  will  allow the
Alliance to evaluate the potential contribution of the projects to reduce carbon emissions
and increase carbon removals in the EAA as part of REDD+; moreover the information to
be produced can be compatible with national MRV systems and be integrated later into
the monitoring systems for REDD+.

Part of this work was presented in Warsaw during COP 19.

Side event of community forest monitoring for REDD+.

The report can be accessed in the following link: http://alianza-mredd1.org/uploads/ckfinder_files/files/4_1_2_7%20Report%20CBM%20in%20Alliance%20REDD%2B%20Balderas%20vf%202013.pdf

Please cite as:
Balderas  Torres,  A.  2013.  Integrating  CBM  into  MRV activities of projects financed by the Alliance in the Early Action Areas of REDD+ in Mexico. The Nature Conservancy. Consultancy Report, Mexico, D.F.

White Paper: Opportunities and challenges for integrating CBM into MRV systems for REDD+ in Mexico (2013).

Consultancy report prepared for The Nature Conservancy (TNC).

Executive Summary Community based monitoring (CBM) can offer good options to engage
local communities in the management of natural resources and to help generating the
information necessary for REDD+. New technologies are being used to create flexible and
innovative on-line systems to monitor natural resources. It is necessary to create flexible
options to make the best use of these tools and include them into basic systems for the
representation of lands and the system to generate carbon stock change factors in REDD+.

Part of this work was presented in Warsaw during COP 19.

Side event of community forest monitoring for REDD+.

The report can be accessed in the following link:
http://alianzamredd.org.mx/uploads/ckfinder_files/files/4_1_2_7%20%20WhitePaper%20Community%20based%20monitoring%20Balderas%20vf%202013.pdf

Please cite as:
Balderas  Torres,  A.  2013.  Opportunities  and  challenges  for integrating CBM into MRV systems for REDD+ in Mexico. The Nature Conservancy. Consultancy Report, Mexico, D.F.

Utilizando el área basal para estimar carbono en biomasa aérea en bosques: La Primavera (Publicado en Forestry, Diciembre 2012)

Este artículo analiza el potencial de utilizar el área basal, que es una variable fácil de medir en campo, para estimar carbono forestal, con base en un inventario forestal.

Titulo: Using basal area to estimate aboveground carbon stocks in forests: La Primavera Biosphere’s Reserve, Mexico.

Increasing use of woody plants for greenhouse gas mitigation has led to demand for rapid, cost-effective estimation of forest carbon stocks. Bole diameter is readily measured and basal area can be correlated to biomass and carbon through application of allometric equations. We explore different forms of allometric equations and analyse the potential to use of equations for individual trees to derive stand-level equations, where the basal area and the average diameter are used as explanatory variables. To test the relationships derived from published allometric equations, we used data from a forest inventory in the oak–pine forests in La Primavera (Mexico). Results show that in two forests with the same species and basal area, there will be more carbon where trees are larger. Allometric equations for individual trees can be transformed into stand-level equations. The values of average diameter weighted by the basal area for these equations can be based on a small sample of large trees once the local relationship between tree size and tree density per hectare is known. This approach could considerably reduce field data requirements in comparison with inventory methods based on enumeration of all trees for estimation of biomass and carbon.

Referencia: Balderas Torres, A., Lovett, J.C. 2012. Using basal area to estimate aboveground carbon stocks in forests: La Primavera Biosphere’s Reserve, Mexico. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. doi: 10.1093/forestry/cps084

El artículo está disponible en:
http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/19/forestry.cps084

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