The Cat Tien Landscape Pro Poor REDD Project. Tim Holland and Richard McNally

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1 The Cat Tien Landscape Pro Poor REDD Project Tim Holland and Richard McNally

2 Project Goal To assess drivers of deforestation and to provide an income source for households to arrest deforestation and forest degradation in the Cat Tien Landscape through linkage with the carbon markets

3 Outline Project overview. Defining project boundaries. Work in progress. Assessment of drivers. Forest mapping. Next steps. Timeline.

4 PROJECT OVERVIEW

5 The Project Pilot Pro Poor REDD mechanisms in the Project Area A three year project June 2009 to June 2012 supported by the DARWIN initiative (Government of UK) Partnership DARD [Department of Forestry REDD co-od], International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED), and Cat Tien National Park Budget is around GBP133,000 (~220,000USD)

6 REDD Methodologies Our work will be based on two methodologies: World Bank Biocarbon Methodology Terra Global Carbon (Tuv-Sud) methodology for Voluntary Carbon Standard validation Both include similar steps, but TGC tends to be more strict (e.g. being firm about most recent images within 12 months of start of project activities)

7 Initial steps Identify deforestation hotspots through remote sensing and discussion with local experts. Initially taking a technical focus; out of necessity in order to identify target areas. Priority is Pro-Poor aspect, development of benefit distribution systems. Define project boundaries.

8 Coarse (VCF) forest change Forest change 2000 to 2005

9 Potential project boundaries Cat Tien NP in 3 provinces and borders a 4 th. Activities in all 4 not practical. Idea to focus on two provinces: Lam Dong and Dong Nai. Project activities in all communes bordering park, and monitoring in communes bordering those

10 Potential project boundaries Alternately: Three communes suggested by Mr. Thanh; one each in Binh Phuoc, Lam Dong, Dong Nai.

11 Potential project area: primary and secondary bordering communes in Lam Dong and Dak Nong Total area (ha) Tree cover 2000 (%) Tree cover 2005 (%) Cover loss / yr (%) Cover loss / yr (ha) 271, Average carbon density 2000 (T/ha) 83.4 Annual emissions* ~350,000 *based on assumption that a ha deforested goes from 100T/ha to 50T/ha (probably conservative)

12 CURRENT ACTIVITIES

13 Work in progress Study of deforestation drivers and economic gains from agriculture / other drivers. Presently writing study with consultants from FIPI and FSIV to be finished by COP15. Forest cover, forest stratification, forest cover change mapping.

14 Preliminary assessment of drivers In conjunction with NORAD / IIED project. Which agricultural crops are expanding, and what are the costs and benefits of each (opportunity costs for REDD)? Identify non-agricultural drivers. Hydropower, roads. When project area defined, will be followed by more detailed assessment. Leakage assessment will require very high level of detail (espeially under TGC).

15 Forest cover and stratification mapping First map forest / non-forest for historical reference period; then refine into forest classes. Accuracy requirements (both methodologies): 90% for forest base map. 80% for forest strata. To what degree can this be improved with field data, vs. to what extent does it have to be on first pass?

16 Improving our resolution 500m 15m

17 Image choice

18 Data types considered VCF (500m) Interesting, but too course for anything but broad landscape planning ASTER (15m) No good cloud-free images available for the time frame we needed Landsat (30m with 15m pan) Sufficiently recent data not available SPOT (20-10m) Primary focus for Cat Tien REDD

19 SPOT Images Available from VN Remote Sensing Centre (RSC). Have Hanoi-based receiving station. SPOT 2 for 1995; SPOT ,2009 Space Technology Institute (STI) will process for us.

20 Spot images available More recent one is hazy at bottom. RSC has clear one, but older. TUV SUD methodology (VCS) requires that most recent image be within one year of project start date, which is the date of first project activities that generate reductions. Dashed blue line is one year before project launch date (if we say launch is Jan )

21 NEXT STEPS

22 Next steps (1 of 2) Finalize project boundaries. Preliminary drivers assessment end-nov. Forest mapping finished mid-december. Field-based carbon monitoring. Following forest cover and forest stratification mapping from remote sensing. Potentially developing community-based carbon monitoring program.

23 Next steps (2 of 2) Identification of priorities for project activities. E.g. crops to focus on. Discussion of best benefit distribution systems (e.g. arguments for / against cash) Plan more detailed drivers assessment to support leakage assessment. Continue to work closely with UN REDD focusing on Lam Dong province for its activities in Vietnam. Continue working with Lam Dong and government partners at national level.

24 Timeline Preliminary drivers assessment end Nov. Forest baseline mapping mid December. Finalize project area end December. Start writing PDD end December. Launch workshop early January. Identification of project activities early Initiation of field-based carbon measurement early 2010.

25 THANK YOU! Questions? Input?