1. REDD+ FOR THE GUIANA SHIELD Technical Cooperation Project
Country Level Support - Guyana
Saba Loftus, ONF International
11th December 2013
2nd Steering Committee, Macapá

2. Ongoing projects in Guyana relevant to REDD+ for the Guiana Shield
Low Carbon Development Strategy (see snapshot or lcds.gov.gy for more information)
GIS Policy
MRV Roadmap approach (2010 for 3 years):
Aim to establish comprehensive, national system to monitor, report and verify forest carbon emissions.)

3. Next Steps in Guyana’s MRVS
Development/demonstration priorities
Better integration of the GFC log tracking system and the satellite imagery in order to monitor compliance
Real-time mining deforestation (using Landsat/Modis). To monitor compliance.
Temporal study of shifting cultivation using historical data to better understand land cover change dynamics
Improvement of the national forest cover map using the Geovantage aerial coverage as a reference layer to classify the RapidEye imagery
Integrated data sharing with other agencies to communicate mapping results to ensure improved enforcement
Ongoing - Overflights using the same system as trialed this year. This would be used again for the accuracy assessment in Year 4.

4. Wish-list for additional country support
Community MRV capacity building
Technical tools / open source software alternatives:
Remote sensing analysis methodologies and software to automatically and semi-automatically analyze land-use, land-cover and changes (GFC noted: Brazil advanced in mapping of forest, mostly automated or semi-automated. GFC see this as something the regions forestry services could benefit from)
How to capitalize on existing data and monitoring tools to feed the MRV system and the REL/RFL? (e.g Open source alternatives to ArcGIS (considering using open source alternatives such as TerraAmazon as licenses proving expensive to maintain).
Decision making tool that incorporates existing Economic data.

5. MERCI / THANK YOU / DANK U / OBRIGADO
Photo credit: ONF Guyane