REDD - Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a climate change mitigation strategy employed by conservation organizations, project developers and governments in developing countries. The intent of REDD is the conservation of forests to sequester carbon and reduce climate change impacts.

A key task of a REDD project is the determination of historical deforestation rates and patterns, as well the proximate causes and underlying forces of such deforestation. This baseline mapping is critical for the identification of future REDD project scenarios to conserve carbon.

Clark Labs provides purpose-built software as well as consulting and advisory services to REDD practitioners that address conservation strategies such as forest protection (e.g., protecting rainforest areas and infrastructure management) or sustainable forest production (e.g., agroforestry projects).

The IDRISI software includes a complete land analysis toolkit, compatible with international requirements, for mapping historical baselines and modeling future scenarios, as well as a REDD modeling facility to estimate and monitor GHG emission reductions due to REDD project implementation. Its integrated and comprehensive features allow you to process your satellite data for the land cover mapping component as well as manage and conserve forest carbon, biodiversity, and related ecosystem services. The participation of local stakeholders is also possible since IDRISI includes a unique suite of decision support tools. 

Application areas include:

  • Land cover mapping and forest monitoring
  • Business-as-usual baseline projection
  • Projection and validation of future deforestation scenarios
  • REDD project GHG emission impact accounting
  • Modeling of biodiversity and habitat co-benefit analysis
  • Modeling ecosystem services impacts
  • Climate trend assessment

Learn more about how IDRISI and its Land Change Modeler application can be utilized to assess, measure and predict land cover change for REDD projects.

REDD Project Services

  • Consulting and project planning
  • Training and capacity building
  • Leakage zone assessment
  • REDD rapid assessment
  • Custom software development

Learn more about Consulting and Advisory Services offered by Clark Labs.

Analytical Examples: 

 
REDD Land Change Analysis in Madagascar

The first stage of a REDD project is the understanding of the historical trends in land use change. The Change Analysis tab in Land Change Modeler provides tools for the rapid assessment of change, allowing one to generate a series of evaluations of gains and losses, net change, persistence and specific transitions both in map and graphical form. This figure shows the historical pattern of change in the Ankeniheny-Mantadia Corridor in Madagascar.

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REDD Land Change Modeler

The REDD tab in LCM provides a full accounting of CO2 and non-CO2 baseline emissions for a REDD project area and the reductions that would be expected as a result of REDD project activities. A set of 19 tables are generated following the logic of the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund methodology.

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