Swan CBP methods ws oct 2011

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CCFS Workshop 27 th 28 th October The Carbon Benefits Project Modelling Component Tools as applied at the Landscape Scale

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Presentation for CCAFS - FAO workshop Smallholder Mitigation: Whole Farm and Landscape Accounting
 27 - 28 October 2011


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CCFS Workshop

27th – 28th October

The Carbon Benefits Project Modelling Component Tools as applied

at the Landscape Scale

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Sustainable Land Management

Sustainable land management projects such as those supported by the GEF have potential to:

- reduce GHG emissions

- sequester C from the atmosphere

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Before the Carbon Benefits Project

• The GEF had no standardized way of tracking and reporting the impact of GEF land management projects on

- carbon stock changes

- greenhouse gas emissions

• GEF projects either not reporting or using different methods

• CBP toolkit developed for GEF projects to track and report in a standardized way

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Reporting Module

Measurement Module

Remote Sensing Ground-based

Measurement Protocol Module

Project Information

Module

Toolkit advisor Project Description

Module

Simple Assessment

Detailed Assessment

Dynamic Modelling

Guidance Module

Assessment Tools

MRV Module

REDD & A/R

Carbon Benefits Socioeconomic Tools

UNEP Colorado State University (Modelling Component)

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CSU Component, Plus Points for Smallholders

1. Online system

2. Easy to use

3. Options for projects with varying amounts of data including just activity data

4. Projects with varying emphasis

5. Economic and social tools

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Project Description

• Project activity areas large or as small as you like

• At landscape scale either define large areas or multiple areas grouped together

• Second option suitable for groups of smallholders spread over a a landscape

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Enter, Manage, and Delete a Polygon

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Guidance

Online questionnaire to help users decide how much time, effort and resources to put into tracking C benefits.

Provides recommendation on which C pools/GHG emissions to monitor.

Recommendation is based on length of report period, project goal, available expertise, facilities, personnel and funding.

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Guidance

Guidance on how to improve C stock/GHG estimates using targeted field and lab measurements

Set of questions to lead users to one of the three analysis tools a Simple Assessment, a Detailed Assessment or a Dynamic Modelling option

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Simple Assessment

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CBP Modelling System Data Requirements for Forestland

• Locations of native forest or plantations, extent of interventions (ha)

• Forest / Plantation System Type

• Age Range (<= 20 years or > 20 years)

• Natural Losses:

• Fire (%/year)

• Wind (%/year)

• Pest/Disease (%/year)

• Other (drought, etc.) (%/year)

• Timber Harvests (m3/year)

• Fuelwood Gathering (m3/year)

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Simple Assessment

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Simple Assessment

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Detailed Assessment & Dynamic Modeling

Detailed Assessment

Same as the simple assessment with capacity for users to:

1. Create their own cropping, grassland or forest systems

2. Modify emission factors to make them project or country specific

Dynamic Modelling

An option for users wishing to do an in depth analysis with a focus on soil C.

Requires some expertise in GIS and ecosystem modelling.

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Socio-Economic Component

• Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)

– Quantitative analysis to determine economic impacts of project activities

• DPSIR Framework (Driving Forces, Pressures, State, Impacts, Responses)

– Qualitative analysis to identify the drivers and barriers to carbon friendly practices

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Summary Report

PDF, 7 pages • Project attributes • Total and annual C balance in CO2e for baseline, project and incremental diff • Tables - C changes by land use classes and emission sources • Economic Impacts

• Social Impacts

Detailed Report • Excel spreadsheet • GHG emissions C stock changes by

source, activity area, land use, category • IPCC equation given • Uncertainty estimate

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Carbon Benefits Project Toolkit Web Site

www.unep.org/climatechange/carbon-benefits/

http://groups.google.com/group/cbp-users

User Group

Contact for more information

Dr Eleanor Milne [email protected]