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1. SOUTH-SOUTH JURISDICTIONAL AND NESTED
REDD+ EXCHANGE WORKSHOP
José Julián González Arenas
Thematic Coordinator
Reference Levels Construction
IDEAM
June 13-15 de 2013
Manaus - Brazil

2. CONTENTS
 General Institutional framework (and integration
with national processes).
Grandparenting of projects (and subnational jurisdictions in
future national frameworks).
Subnational (≈Jurisdictional) boundary definitions.
 Reference Levels construction pilot in the northern
part of the Colombian Amazon:

3. General institutional
framework (and integration
with national processes)

4. Source: MADS, 2012.
Institutional Framework
Climate Change Policy and REDD+
Colombian Climate Change Policy
Low Carbon Development Strategy Climate Change Adaptation National Plan
Financial strategy for Disasters protection
National REDD+ Strategy
Sectorial Mitigation actions
Adaptation based on Ecosystems
Sectorial / Territorials
Adaptation actions

5. Interoperability
Institutional Framework
Climate Change Policy and REDD+
Subnational Reference Levels Areas
Source: MADS, 2012.
 Recognizes regional differences that occur within the country
(deforestation, socio-economic and ecological dynamics)

6. National Carbon accounting
MRV Robust
•National
•Regional
•Local (Community Based)
National Forest
Inventory
- Permanent plot network for Carbon.
Reference levels
- Subnational reference levels development.
 Starting implentation of Forest and
Carbon monitoring system for
Colombia.
 Deforestation monitoring (1990-
2010-[2012])
 Carbon Stocks estimation in
Natural forests (2010-[2012])
Advance level
¿What are our advances?
 Conceptual and Geo-statistic
framework for NFI.
 26 permanent plots for Carbon
monitoring.
 Pilot study for Subnational
Reference levels development
(Northern Colombian Amazon).
Institutional Framework
Climate Change Policy and REDD+

7. Reference Levels construction
pilot in the northern part of the
Colombian Amazon

8. Pilot area: Boundary definitions
Delimitation criteria:
¿What limit should be
used?
1. Municipality limit.
2. Indigenous people
reserves (Resguardos)
limits.
Total area: 7,608,757 ha
Forest area (2010): 5,201,388 ha

9. .
Subnational approach: Boundary definitions
Pros and Cons assessment of existing subnational boundaries
Evaluation criteria: number, aggregation potential, governance,
deforestation dynamics representativeness, perverse incentives
from carbon benefits, etc.

10. • CAR are legally constituted and part of
the national government (respond to
the Ministry of Environment).
• CAR limits mostly respond to
environmental/ecosystem patterns.
• Manageable number after CAR’s
aggregation (33 to 9) using subnational
Climate Change Nodes.
• Diminished risk of perverse incentives
derived from carbon benefits.
• Nested approach: Reference levels
will be established for each one of
the subnational areas and will
eventually integrate to a national
reference level. Priority to Amazon
region.
Subnational approach: Boundary definitions

11. Pilot area: Articulation with local REDD+ initiatives and
national monitoring systems
Articulation criteria:
¿How to articulate with
local and national
levels?
1. National Monitoring
System (≈MRV)
interoperability
(feedback between
levels)
2. Joint work with REDD+
initiatives (Methods,
data) and regionalized
modeling approach
(grandparenting
issues).

12. REFERENCE
LEVEL
DRIVERS
EMISSION/REMOVAL
FACTORS
ACTIVITY DATA
Pilot area: Methodological approach and MRV
articulation
Satellite imagery
processing and analysis
Biomass-Carbon plots
establishment
Drivers assessment
SPATIAL
DEFORESTATION
MODELLING/SIMULATION
HISTORIAL INFORMATION
FUTURE TRENDS
NATIONAL FOREST AND CARBON MONITORING SYSTEM (IDEAM)
NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL STUDIES

13. Pilot area: spatial simulation
(deforestation)
IDRISI - LCM DINAMICA
Prediction
2012
Landcover
2012
Landcover
2005
VALIDATION
Landcover
2000
TRAINING

14. Jurisdictional and
Nested REDD+ (JNR) –
Subnational level
REDD VM0015
(Pedroni 2011) –
Project level
PILOT
REFERENCE
LEVEL
METHODS
Harmonization exercise
SPECIFICGENERAL
International guidelines and learned lessons
from other countries
INPUTS PROCEDURES
Pilot area: Methodological issues regarding
articulation with local initiatives

15. • Satellite imagery.
• baseline area boundaries definition.
• Types and carbon content of forests (tC ha-1).
• Definition of categories of use and land cover
(LULUCF classes).
• Classification of deforestation.
• Validation of land cover maps.
• Characterization of agents and drivers of
deforestation.
• Leakage assessment.
• Deforestation Projection.
Pilot area: Methodological issues regarding
articulation with local initiatives
Grandparentingissues
• Scale interoperability and
accepted uncertainty in
validation assessment.
• Subnational leakage
assessment.
• Projection approach (historical
average vs. modeled
scenarios).

16. Next steps
• Defining other Reference Levels specific feedbacks with MRV and local
REDD+ Initiatives.
• Pilot results by July of 2013.
• Solve specific technical issues regarding modeling (including leakage)
and validation processes.
• Methodological approach and REL for the Amazonian subnational area
by January of 2014. Order of other areas to be defined by feasibility
study.
• Replicability assessment for the proposed methodological approach.
• Improve national technical capabilities in Reference Levels construction
and updating.
• Obtain additional funding for the REL of the rest of the subnational areas.

17. 1. Memoria Técnica “Cuantificación de la tasa de
deforestación histórica nacional a escalas gruesa
y fina”
http://goo.gl/zLQUz
2. Protocolo de "Procesamiento Digital de
Imágenes, para la cuantificación de la
deforestación en Colombia. Nivel Nacional".
http://goo.gl/0YgFt
3. Protocolo de "Procesamiento Digital de
Imágenes de sensores remotos para la
cuantificación de la deforestación. Nivel
Subnacional".
http://goo.gl/kjhbv
Publications: Activity data

18. Publications: Emission/Removal factors
1. Estimación de las reservas potenciales de carbono
almacenadas en la biomasa aérea en los bosques naturales
de Colombia.
http://goo.gl/eORyh
2. Estimación de las reservas actuales (2010) de carbono
almacenadas en la biomasa aérea en los bosques naturales
de Colombia.
http://goo.gl/1q4WC
3. Selección y validación de modelos para la estimación de la
biomasa aérea en los bosques naturales de Colombia.
http://goo.gl/X1F1O
4. Protocolo para la estimación nacional y subnacional de
biomasa –carbono en Colombia.
http://goo.gl/1XrFl
5. Madera muerta: un reservorio de carbono de bosques
naturales de Colombia.
http://goo.gl/gEfr8
6. Estimación de las emisiones de dióxido de carbono
generadas por deforestación durante el período 2005-2010.
http://goo.gl/bKef8

19. Publications: Deforestation simulation,
Emission/Removal factors
"Análisis de tendencias y patrones espaciales de
deforestación en Colombia".
http://goo.gl/qTyN8
http://www.biogeosciences.net/9/2683/2012/bg-9-2683-
2012.pdf
“High-resolution mapping of forest carbon stocks in
the Colombian Amazon".

20. For more information:
jjgonzalez@ideam.gov.co
informacionredd@ideam.gov.co
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