REDD+ FOR THE GUIANA SHIELDTechnical Cooperation Project

Initiatives around REDD+ in French Guiana

Fanny MISS, ONF6th August 2013

1st Steering Committee, Paramaribo

The forest in French Guiana

8 Mha of forest 2,4 Mha of permanent forest

estate (developed or in progress)

1,8Mha of intermediary forest 1,4 Mha PAG (French Guiana

Amazonian Park)-ONF 2Mha PAG Reserves Forests managed by

indigenous communities

Context Research in French Guiana

Good implantation Know forest resources to manage them Continuous improvement of forest management

Why carbon? Climate policy obligations: Kyoto commitment- inventories 2008-2012-… Humid tropical forests = green lung of the planet Only European tropical forest

Carbon context of French Guiana

Kyoto Deforestation in French Guiana France = Annex 1 country

3.3 land use change 3.4 forest management

REDD+ in French Guiana REDD+ mechanism : unclear “REDD+ Inspired” or voluntary carbon market: to develop Pass from a “flux” logic to a “stock” logic: to investigate Regulatory framework to value sustainable forest management For ONF: integrate the carbon issue in forest management Sharing progress on REDD+ strategies

Activity 1: Assessment of forest cover and stocks

GUYAFORGUYAFOR (2000) CIRAD + ONF : Estimation of above ground forest biomass, network of plots

CARPAGCARPAG (2009) CIRAD : Carbon from the pastures of French Guyana and greenhouse gas emissions Evaluation of CO2 fluxes in grasslands

GUYAFLUXGUYAFLUX Context:

Project started in 2003, INRA FTH: carbon sequestration dynamics

Objective Measurement of forest-atmosphere gas

exchanges Tower of 55m height

Results: Zero carbon storage or low stock Continue the analysis: relations

between compartments, stock/flux and factors of influence

Activity 1: Assessment of forest cover and stocks

SEAS:SEAS: Satellite based monitoring of the Amazonian biomeSatellite based monitoring of the Amazonian biome

Context: Platform for the direct acquisition and processing of SPOT and

ENVISAT data IRD (and other partners, including French Guiana Region, CNES),

2006-2011 Objectives: satellite data Results:

Kyoto project Identification and quantification of drivers of deforestation Statistics to comply with the Kyoto Protocol Data use

Activity 2: Improve the deforestation/degradation dynamic understanding

SEASSEAS To come:

Cessation of satellites SPOT 1 to 4 and ANVISAT

Reception of SPOT 5 (end of life at the end of 2014)

SPOT 6 and Pléiades images being tested

Covering for Antilles-French Guiana

Acquiring of additional images on demand and depending on additional funding

Activity 2: Improve the deforestation/degradation dynamic understanding

GuyasimGuyasim: Simulator to explore the environmental impact of different development scenarios in French Guiana

Context Strong socio-economic development = plan adequate and

sustainable infrastructure Find a compromise between territorial development and forest

preservation Objective: «French Guiana simulator» allowing the quantification and

mapping of the likely evolution of indicators of environmental services Results

Decision making tool to support land use planning Quantify the services provided by the ecosystems REDD component : reference scenarios/ alternative scenarios

Activity 3: Improve modeling capacities to help decision-making process

Guyasim: example of a development scenario

Guyasim: example of a development scenario

Guyasim: example of a development scenario

Before After Balance

Aboveground biomass

150 0 -150

Below ground Biomass

30 15 -15

Deadwood and litter carbon

10 0 -0

Soil Carbon 70 70 0

Total Carbon Stock

260 85 -175

Quantify and identify reduction or compensation modalities

Dr.guyane@onf.fr

www.onf.fr/guyane

MERCI / THANK YOU / DANK U / OBRIGADO

Photo credit: ONF Guyane