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    • The series highlights the role of forests in climate change mitigation and the role of measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) to ensure environmental integrity and access results-based payments or climate finance under REDD+ standards and programmes. In doing so, it demonstrates the need for rigorous activity data and details sample-based area estimation (SBAE) workflows, emphasizing good practices in forest change mapping, accuracy assessment, and confidence interval calculations to meet MRV requirements effectively.

      The series consists of:

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      Measurement, reporting and verification for environmental integrity

      This course highlights the importance of forests in climate change mitigation and how quality measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) is needed to ensure environmental integrity. It outlines the MRV requirements for jurisdictional REDD+ of different standards/programmes, in case countries are seeking to obtain results-based payments or climate finance.

      1 h

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      Measurement, reporting and verification for environmental integrity: Application

      Forests area change estimates are crucial for estimating forest-related emissions and removals in the REDD+ context. This two-lesson course emphasize that the use of rigorous activity data, produced according to good practices, is key to meeting monitoring, verification and reporting (MRV) requirements of REDD+ programmes and standards. 

      Following good practices in area estimation based on the stratification derived from a forest change map, the first lesson introduces the sample-based area estimation (SBAE) workflow. The second lesson advances the learner using a stepwise approach to conducting a SBAE. In doing so accuracy is assessed following good practices and confidence intervals (a common technical requirement in REDD+ Programmes and Standards) are calculated.

      3 h 45 m

    • Each course concludes with a final test. A digital badge certificate is issued upon successful completion of the test.

      Depending on the interest of learners, the self-paced course series can be completed as a whole (which is preferable), or as individual courses (or lessons), taken independently.

      Throughout the courses, references are made to specific courses or lessons where certain subjects are covered more extensively. Each course takes the learner step-by-step through the learning content using interactive screens and is complemented by exercises and links to additional material and websites for further reading.

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