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Chapter 5: Project implementation: field work After identifying the baseline strata by visual characteristics and local knowledge, the project team will need to conduct a baseline inventory to calculate carbon stocks in 10-15 sample plots in each stratum. On the basis of these samples, the project developers can check if there is significant variation in carbon stock values between the plots within the same stratum. If so, then that stratum is not useful in the context of carbon stock measurement and the project developer must look for a different basis for stratification. A tool has been developed for A/R CDM to help project developers with the process of checking stratification. It is just as viable for forestry VCM projects and can be downloaded from the CDM website. 33 The Good Practice Guidelines (2003) provided by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 34 also provide good insights into the stratification processes. Involving local communities in this work is a great opportunity to train a field team on data collection methods, as demonstrated in the “Field guide for assessing and monitoring reduced forest degradation and carbon sequestration by local communities”, available from www. communitycarbonforestry.org, The number of sample plots required for accurate monitoring of carbon stock is dependent on the extent and type of forest categories. Permanent sample plots, established for such monitoring, must be of the same size and shape as those used in the pilot survey. Plots should be generated randomly using a basic outline map of the project area and strata. A tool has been developed for the determination of the appropriate number of sample plots: see http://cdm.unfccc.int/ methodologies/ARmethodologies/tools/ar-am-tool-03-v2.1.0.pdf 33 http://cdm.unfccc.int/methodologies/ARmethodologies/tools/ar-am-tool-03- v2.1.0.pdf 34 More details are available within IPCC methodologies, GPG (Good Practice Guidelines) including Uncertainty Information and how to use it and Quality Assurance and Control and CDM tools. UNFCCC also provides methodological tools for calculating number of sample plots. 123
Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets 5.2.3 Using default values Most VCM standards accept the use of default values. This can be quite a useful approach, especially when starting up a project: default values can be used to begin with, and more accurate, project-specific assessments can be made over time, as the project developers secure the necessary resources for the fieldwork. In some cases, however, the additional carbon benefits may not be sufficient to cover the costs of this fieldwork, and default values remain the benchmark for carbon stock estimates throughout the project’s duration. This will reduce the accuracy of predictions of carbon credit outputs from the project, and thus will affect the level of investment it will attract, but default values are particularly useful for community-based projects, where human resources and skill limitations increase the expense of the fieldwork required for carbon accounting. VCM standards will accept default values that are obtained from guidelines produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These are available from the IPCC’s own website (www.ipcc.ch) or from the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan: IPCC Inventory Guidelines (http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/ 2006gl/index.html) IPCC Good Practice Guidance (http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/ gpglulucf/gpglulucf.html). Alternatively, default values from peer-reviewed literature, appropriate to the project’s situation, are also considered acceptable. This will require the assistance of experienced, professional carbon project developers or academics (see section 7). 124
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