Lessons learned from evaluations of greenhouse gas reports from forest mitigation Version 2.0

https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/3dca96af-6145-4a4f-bec9-b5da09e05a2e Evaluations play a critical role in building trust in greenhouse gas (GHG) reports, enabling them to underpin compliance with international commitments or voluntary climate goals. Often there are financial implications, and third-party evaluations are then designed to generate strong assurances. Other evaluations offer opportunities for feedback, learning, and capacity building in GHG quantification, monitoring and reporting. However, fully appreciating the value of different types of evaluations requires a stronger understanding of their processes than is common among forest monitoring experts. This paper aims to help address this gap through a comparative analysis of evaluations under various greenhouse gas programmes. This paper was produced by FAO under its Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests programme(AIM4Forests), thanks to financing from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero of theUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (DESNZ). Support was also provided by theUnited Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation(UN-REDD), made possible through support from the European Commission and the governments of:Denmark, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and United Kingdomof Great Britain and Northern Ireland.