Introduction to NDCs and FREL
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The Philippines aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 75% from 2020 to 2030, with 2.17% being unconditional and the remaining 72.29% dependent on international assistance. The country is scheduled to submit its Forest Reference Emissions Level (FREL) in 2021, which will serve as a baseline for future mitigation actions and reflect improved methodologies. The document discusses the importance of transparency and consistency in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and developing FRELs that consider all anthropogenic emissions and removals.
Introduction to NDCs and FREL
- 1. Introduction to NDCs and FREL Richard A. MacKenzie Aquatic Ecologist, USFS 9/20/21
- 2. Paris Agreement at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the UNFCCC agreed to limit global average temperature increase to < 2oC above pre-industrial levels and within 1.5 oC. These goals are to be achieved through NDCs, which shall: • be transparent, accurate, complete, comparable and consistent (TACCC) • be in accordance with guidance adopted by the COPs serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Agreement. • guide the country’s long term development plans towards a climate resilient and low carbon pathway while promoting economic development and industrial goals • account for anthropogenic emissions and removals in accordance with IPCC methodologies and common metrics • include all categories of anthropogenic emissions or removals and to continue to include categories that were previously included in NDCs • provide explanations as to why anthropogenic emissions or removals have been excluded in NDCs. Nationally Determined Contributions
- 3. Development of Philippines NDCs
- 4. • Forest Reference Level (FRL) estimates the amount of emission reductions from deforestation and forest degradation, and also increased removals from enhanced forest carbon stocks. • Forest Reference Emissions Level (FREL), only estimates amount of emission reductions from deforestation and forest degradation from a geographical area (REDD).
- 5. • Be expressed in tonnes of CO2equivalent per year • Take into account historical data and understand forest change patterns and underlying causes – to take national circumstances into account, – to construct scenarios that deviate from historical trends • Maintain consistency with national GHG inventories • Be established transparently • Recognize step wise approaches Developing FREL/FRL
- 6. Mangroves are often not included in FRELs or NDCs despite the high carbon stocks they have, especially in their sediments.
- 7. Developing FRELs TopicD1.Slide11of16 Angelsen et al. (2011)
- 8. A step-wise approach to develop FRELs TopicD1.Slide12of16 Herold et al., 2012
- 10. ▪ FREL/FRL provide the benchmarks or baselines that can be used in NDCs, REDD+, etc. ▪ FREL/FRL may be developed through a step-wise approach ▪ Improvements from higher tier emission factors, the use of TACCC, and calculated uncertainty values should be promoted to encourage broad participation and increase confidence Concluding remarks TopicD1.Slide14of16
- 11. Philippines • The Philippines has committed to reduce its GHG emissions as much as 75% from 2020 to 2030 against the projected emissions during this period of 3,340.3 Mt CO2 eq. 2.17% is unconditional, 72.29% is conditional on international assistance • The Philippines is scheduled to submit its FREL 2021 by the end of this year • FREL 2021 will be used as a baseline to compare future mitigation actions and possibly to participate in REDD+ • FREL 2021 could be improved by incorporating missing sources/sinks such as wetlands
- 12. Workshop objectives 1. To familiarize with Chapter 4 of the 2013 IPCC Wetlands Supplement 2. To present the Transparency, Accuracy , Compatibility, Completeness and Consistency (TACCC) of the UNFCCC 3. Introduce methods for estimating uncertainty of FREL 2021
- 13. Participants • Forest Management Bureau • Climate Change Commission • Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau • Biodiversity Management Bureau • The University of the Philippines Diliman • The University of the Philippines BluesCARES Project • Conservation International Philippines • Climate Change Service • National Mapping and Resource Information Auth. • FREL Team
- 14. Dr Henry Adornado John Edgar Dr Richard MacKenzie Dr. Rupesh Bhomia Dr Sigit Sasmito Dr. Severino Salmo III Dr Oswaldo Carrillo Dr. Allan Castillo Dr Zuel Araujo Speakers and resource persons
- 15. Thank you