Partnering to Measure Forest Carbon

March, 2014

Harnessing the Technical Capacities of the United States

• U.S. Agency for International Development• U.S. State Department• U.S. Geological Survey• U.S. Forest Service• NASA• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency• NOAA• Smithsonian Institution

As well as U.S. universities, NGOs, donors and industry

Areas and Regions• Globally

– SilvaCarbon is the US contribution to the Group on Earth Observations - Global Forest Observation Initiative (GEO –GFOI) to enhance global capacities for forest carbon monitoring

– Improving coordination of USG assistance to developing countries on forest carbon – Improving technical knowledge through research and technology development and

dissemination. • Regionally

– Regional training activities– Coordination of regional information sharing and capacity building with developing

and other donor country partners• Bi-Lateral

– Detailed programs of work to address key needs identified by the partner country– Flexible approach to work with multiple partners and adapt to each countries

needs and situation.

SilvaCarbon coordination with other USG support

• The US supports a number of different bi-lateral, regional, and global programs that work on forest monitoring in addition to SilvaCarbon

• Examples – Global:

• Forest, Carbon, Markets, and communities program (FCMC); • WRI Global Forest Watch• SERVIR (NASA)• Governors’ Climate and Forest Fund • Land Cover for Climate (LC4Climate)

– Regional: • Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) • the Initiative for Conservation in the Andean Amazon (ICAA)

– Bilateral• Mexico’s Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation Program(M-REDD)• BIOREDD (Colombia)

• SilvaCarbon has collaborative activities with a number of programs and works ad-hoc to ensure collaboration with other programs working in the same countries.

REDD+ Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) Manual

REDD+ Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) Manual: Summary for Policymakers

The SERVIR Program

SERVIR is a flagship initiative of USAID and NASA with the Objective to:

Strengthen the capacity of government decision-makers and other key stakeholders to integrate earth

observation information and geospatial technologies into development decision-making

Lower Mekong

Hub

RCMRD – Host of SERVIR-East Africa

ICIMOD – Host of SERVIR-Himalaya

CATHALAC – Host of SERVIR-Mesoamerica

The SERVIR Network

West Africa Hub

Joining in 2014: Lower Mekong and West Africa

What SERVIR Does

• Improves access to data, models, maps• Strengthens the capacity of regional

institutions, stakeholders, and youth• Creates user-tailored decision support

tools and services with local partners• Raises awareness of the value of user-

tailored earth observation information• Builds partnerships

• More than 40 decision-support tools and products developed:

Agriculture: Crop yield forecasting, Drought forecasting

Water: Streamflow forecasting, Flood early warning

Health: Malaria early warning, Red tide monitoring

Disasters: Post disaster assessment, Fire monitoring and alerts

Land use and land cover: Land cover mapping, GHG inventory

See: https://servirglobal.net/Africa.aspx

SERVIR Applications