The manual aims to help those responsible for the design and implementation of land-based carbon projects to monitor the ways in which their projects affect the local biodiversity and the livelihoods... read more
Guidebook
The Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) Guidance for GHG Project Accounting
This guidance details approaches for quantifying and reporting GHG reductions from LULUCF project activities (see chapters 3, 4, and 9 which cover “Defining the GHG Assessment Boundary,”... read more
FIP Monitoring and Reporting Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to support the implementation of the document, “Results Monitoring and Reporting in the Forest Investment Program (FIP)”; together, they set out the framework for annual... read more
Designing Mitigation Measures: National Planning for GHG Mitigation in Agriculture: A Guidance Document
This guidance document describes two of the main approaches to GHG mitigation planning in the agricultural sector in developing countries—LEDS and NAMAs—as well as the possible relationships... read more
REDD+ Opportunity Costs Training Manual
This manual shares hands-on experiences from field programs and presents the essential practical and theoretical steps, methods, and tools for conducting an opportunity cost analysis for REDD+ at the... read more
AFOLU Carbon Calculator: The Effectiveness Guide
This guidebook describes the “Effectiveness Guide”, which is built into the AFOLU Carbon Calculator’s Tools. The Effectiveness Guide generates an effectiveness rating for project activities,... read more
GHG Protocol Agricultural Guidance: Interpreting the Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Agricultural Sector
The guidebook is a supplement to GHG Protocol’s Corporate Standard for the reporting of GHG emissions from the agricultural sector. It covers all agricultural subsectors, including livestock, crop... read more
Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Agriculture: A Manual to Address Data Requirements for Developing Countries
This manual helps users identify, build, and access the minimum set of activity data needed for GHG estimation in the agricultural... read more
Technical Guidance on Development of a REDD+ Reference Level
This guidebook focuses on the design and implementation of the technical components of a national and subnational REDD+... read more
Guidance on Low Emission Land Use Planning: Version 1.1
This guidebook provides a general framework that is flexible, scalable and adaptable to a variety of different contexts with the goal of producing a low emission land use plan. Users will find a... read more