In its Letter of Intent with CAFI, the Republic of Congo committed to provide complete and consistent greenhouse gas emission calculations (provided by the Greenhouse Gas Inventory) as well as uncertainties on activity data and emissions factors – (provided respectively by the SSTS and National Forest Inventory). The project to operationalise the SYNA-MNV will enable the country to meet its commitment to CAFI and the UNFCCC by strengthening the consistency and completeness of its Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL).
Since 2012, the National Center for the Inventory and Management of Forest and Wildlife Resources of the Ministry of Forest Economy of the Republic of Congo (RoC) has been supported by the FAO and the World Bank to develop a National Measurement, Reporting and Verification System (SYNA-MNV in French). This system allows the country to evaluate, according to the Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL), the national performance in reducing emissions related to deforestation and forest degradation throughout the National Forest Estate.
The Republic of Congo launched its first National Forest Inventory (NFI) in 2010. The field work was completed in 2015, based on which the country developed and submitted its FREL to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2016. The FREL has been evaluated with technical recommendations for its next revision. The recommendations highlight improving and producing new specific emission factors (especially for flooded forests), improving activity data, especially for degradation, and updating/revising the entire adjustment, to reflect trends on investments in different economic areas (e.g. agricultural, mining, oil).
The project to operationalise the national system for MRV (SYNA MNV in French) is thus designed to monitor activities part of the National REDD+ Strategy and to estimate emissions and removals of greenhouse gas specific to the forest and land use sectors.
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