Deforestation monitoring A key issue for the REDD process Paraguay experience. UNFCCC REDD WORKSHOP Tokyo JUNE 2008

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1 Deforestation monitoring A key issue for the REDD process Paraguay experience UNFCCC REDD WORKSHOP Tokyo JUNE 2008

2 Presentation outline Paraguay situation Deforestation process Mechanism to address deforestation Implications for REDD

3 Paraguay

4 Main natural characteristics The Rio Paraguay bisects the country into two distinct ecological regions. To the west are the dry woodlands of the Gran Chaco, while the humid subtropical Atlantic Forest of the Upper Paraná is dominant in the east. The primary pattern of land use / land cover change in both regions is large scale conversion of forest agriculture.

5 Deforestation drivers Soya incomes 23% of the GDP Forest sector less than 2 % This situation has lead to. Lost of almost 92% of the original atlantic forest cover

6 8 mill ha in 1945 to 0,9mill in 2005

7 e Global Land Cover Facility Change in the Subtropical Forest Cover of Paraguay During the 1990s Alice Altstatt 1, Sunghee Kim 1, Oscar Rodas 4, Alberto Yanosky 4, John Townshend 1, Compton Tucker 1,2, Rob Clay 4 and John Musinsky 3 1University of Maryland, 2 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 3 Conservation International, 4 Guyra Paraguay BOLIVIA BRAZIL Deforestation rate ha yr (FRA, 2005) ARGENTINA Forest Nonforest Deforestation Water Cloud Kilometers

8 How Paraguay is addressing this problem Non deforestation law in 2004, for the eastern region A monitoring strategy was implement Monitoring of forest areas and digitalization of land use and forest management plans Environmental service law in order to promote the conservation of remaing forest areas

9 Available Tools (remote sensors ) Low resolution: MODIS 250 m Medium resolution : LANDSAT 30 m and CBERS 20 m High Resolution : IKONOS QUICKBIRD 5 a 0,5 m very costly

10 Available Tools in Internet. ain internet sites were the information could be ownloaded and used: lobal Land Cover Facility ttp://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml nstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciales (INPE) Brasil ensor CBERS II ttp:// omisión Nacional del Aire y del Espacio (CONAE) Argentina ensor SAC-C ttp:// gencia Espacial de los Estados Unidos (NASA) USGS ensores MODIS Aqua y Terra Sensor ASTER ttp://glovis.usgs.gov/ ttp://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/ / gencia Espacial Europea ensor SPOT ttp://sirius.spotimage.fr/anglais/welcome.htm pace Imaging Inc. ensor Ikonos ww.spaceimaging.com igital Globe Inc. ensor QuickBird ww.digitalglobe.com

11 First Step: Forest Management and Land Use planing were audited More than 600 land use and forest management plans were, evaluated, georeferenciated and put available in geospatial database GIS to be used for monitoring by the distric attourney

12 Very high resolution Monitoring Yaguarete Forest magen IKONOS Land Use planning georeferenciated

13 An innovative mechanism Those who have not comply with the legally required 25 % reserve has to piad to the one, who preserve more than the 25% Main challenge, give an economic value to the forest not only timber and land oportunity cost

14 Main achievements Deforestation rates significantly reduced Monitoring plan is costly effective Link with carbon stocks estimative will be initiated Easy to calculate when forest land converted to agriculture and pastures

15 How this initiatives will linked with REDD? Monitoring experience gained Linked with GHG Inventories for LULUCF, posible baseline? Gives an estimation on forest cover changes Ground base inventories are required This experience is suitable for sub national approach Need more investment, a greater capacity for national approach Nat Comunic has to be linked to REDD

16 Many constraints to start with a national approach Technical capacity Forest inventory and Monitoring Forest Monitoring Emission Financing National Inventory Capacity building program Legal Land tenure

17 Thank you