The guidelines have been published with the genuine notion of providing reference for measuring and monitoring of forest carbon stocks in participatory forest managment.
They further aim to provide a set of carbon measurement procedures applicable to the forestry and agroforestry land use system of Nepal. The guidelines are expected to meet international standards defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Voluntary Carbon Standards (VCS). They seek to offer a range of flexible forest carbon measuring, monitoring and estimating methodologies with several options applicable to forests of different ecological and management regimes. They are further intended to serve as user-friendly training material for forest users.
The guidelines describe methods, procedures and steps for measuring organic carbon stored by forestry land use system. They introduce globally
accepted equipments, instruments, methodologies, procedures and standards in forest carbon measurement and offer a detailed recipe to use them more efficiently and effectively. In other words, blended methods and procedures are presented coherently to make them applicable to a wide range of eco-regions and management regimes. The guidelines offer guidance on defining participatory boundaries with the help of Remote Sensing maps and tools, as well as a complete set of procedures on application of remote sensing, GIS and ground inventory. They provide, in short, precise, accurate, reliable and user-friendly forest carbon measurement methodologies adapted to Nepal's specificities.
This guideline can be downloaded by clicking here.
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