14. Agriculture, Forestry, Land Use

This is a revision to VMD0007 (BL-UP), a module for estimating carbon stock changes and GHG emissions related to unplanned deforestation (not degradation) in the baseline scenario.

The revision updates the approach for analyzing uncertainty and incorporates the latest best practices for modeling.

Module VMD0017 (X-UNC) is concurrently under revision in association with this revision.

This is a revision of VM0009, a methodology that quantifies GHG removals generated from avoiding mosaic deforestation caused by subsistence agriculture. External drivers of deforestation can be used to inform the rate of deforestation for the baseline scenario.

The revision allows frontier deforestation and planned deforestation scenarios, while accounting for residual biomass in the baseline scenario. The revision also presents a new market leakage model.

This is a revision to VMD0017 (X-UNC), a module for estimating uncertainty in the baseline scenario, project scenario, GHG emissions and/or leakage when using methodology VM0007.

The revision updates the approach for analyzing uncertainty and incorporates the latest best practices for modeling.

Module VMD0007 (BL-UP) is concurrently under revision in association with this revision. 

REDD

This tool calculates historical deforestation rates using incomplete remote sensing imagery when complete scenes are not available. A remote sensing image may be incomplete due to (a) atmospheric conditions such as cloud and shadow cover, dust or smoke and/or (b) sensor-related errors such as anomalous speckles, data saturation, spatial offsets or missing data. This tool is intended to be used in regions where limited archival imagery exists such as regions that have persistent cloud cover or where existing complete archival imagery is too expensive.

PRC-RDP

This methodology outlines procedures for estimating the reduction of net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from project activities that rewet drained peatlands in temperate climatic regions. It allows for the estimation of GHG emissions from drained and rewetted peatlands and also accounts for changes in carbon stocks in selected non-peat carbon pools.

PRC-RDP

This methodology applies to project types that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from peat oxidation by rewetting previously drained tropical peatlands using technical means (eg, the establishment of dams in drainage canals).

This kind of project will have the following effects on greenhouse gas emissions:

ARR, IFM, REDD

This protocol focuses on enhancing sequestration of carbon dioxide by forests, reducing carbon dioxide emissions from forests and forestry operations and maintaining or increasing stores of carbon in forest and wood product carbon pools. Depending on project-specific circumstances, comparatively small changes (either increases or decreases) in the emission of methane and nitrous oxide may also be realized by eligible projects. Real GHG emission reductions and removal enhancements and increased forest carbon sequestration and maintenance r

ALM

This modular methodology is designed to be applicable to ALM projects, including changes to agricultural practices, grassland and rangeland restorations, soil carbon protection and accrual benefits from reductions in erosion, grassland protection projects and treatments designed to improve diversity and productivity of grassland and savanna plant communities. The associated modules provide methods for quantifying and montioring changes in carbon accrual in, and emissions from, soils as well as from other GHG pools and sources that may be affected by AFOLU projects.

ALM

The module provides the methods required to summarize the estimated atmospheric GHG flux associated with the project area under either the baseline or project scenario for a given time period.

This methodology was open for public comment from 5 October 2011 until 3 November 2011. Visit the Methodology for Soil Carbon to view comments.

ALM

The module provides a suite of methods and approaches for projecting future conditions of carbon pools and emissions, as well as decision criteria for choosing the correct method for the variable (X) examined.

This methodology was open for public comment from 5 October 2011 until 3 November 2011. Visit the Methodology for Soil Carbon to view comments.