Course Details

This training will enable participants to build their capacity on
procedures and methods for estimating emission factors related to land use change and
and the establishment of a monitoring system.

Articulations of this module include :
*Carbon stock changes due to deforestation and forest degradation by different anthropogenic activities
*IPCC levels for estimating emission factors (EFs)
* Allometric equations
– Definition of allometric equations
– Determination of the allometric equations;
– Uses of allometric equations.
*Establishment of reference levels (FREL/FRL)
* Estimation of emission factors – stock difference method and gain-loss difference method
*Estimation of emission factors related to deforestation
– Stratification of vegetation cover types
– Carbon reservoirs
– Field measurements, carbon stock estimation and EF determination
– Estimating carbon stocks and determining EFs
– Sources of error and quality assurance/ control
*Estimation of emission factors related to forest degradation from different anthropogenic
activities
-Strategies
– Data collection to estimate EFs: field measurements
– Estimated EFs and total emissions
– How to estimate gains from regrowth in anthropogenic areas.