Developing an integrated forestry sector MRV system

Countries
Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Climate Objective
Mitigation
Planning and Implementation Activity
Monitoring and Evaluation
Sectors and Themes
Infrastructure and Industry
Transport
Barriers Overcome
Financial
Information
Institutional
Source
Global Good Practice Analysis (GIZ UNDP)
Language
English
French
Spanish
Case Summary

The National Forest Monitoring System is a national MRV system, currently under development, aimed at improving the coordination and organisation amongst different institutions involved in the forestry sector in Costa Rica, in order to generate quality and verifiable information for different purposes.

The National Forest Monitoring System builds on Costa Rica’s Payment for Environmental Services (PES) monitoring system to support significant forest sector-related national policy objectives and/or programmes, including: (i) the national 2021 carbon neutrality goal; (ii) participation in the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) and efforts to access its funds; (iii) compliance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; and (iv) pursuit of the Verified Carbon Standard Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (VCS JNR) Framework for accounting and crediting REDD+ programmes.

A coordination mechanism is in place where a group of specialists have come together to identify and solve technical and information gaps, in order to complete and adjust this new overarching MRV system that caters to various different requirements and needs. A series of completed, on-going and planned actions are developed under this process.

Further Information

Case study author(s)

Authors: Edwin Vega-Araya (INCAE)

Edited by: Nicholas Harrison (Ecofys)

Editorial support: Ana María Majano and María José Gutiérrez (INCAE) with support from: Frauke Röser, Thomas Day, Daniel Lafond, Niklas Höhne and Katja Eisbrenner (Ecofys).

Coordination by: Ecofys www.ecofys.com and CLACDS, INCAE Business School

Contact
Ing. Jorge Mario Rodríguez, CEO, FONAFIFO, jmrodriguez@fonafifo.go.cr