Monitoring Interventions and GHG Emissions

Monitoring interventions and estimating emission reductions play a critical role in understanding the effectiveness of climate mitigation efforts. Forest monitoring, which involves tracking forest conditions, movement, and size, combined with monitoring other natural regions such as land-use and land-cover changes, can significantly enhance the bottom-up monitoring of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These efforts contribute to validating processed-based models like Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) and bookkeeping models, which are often used to estimate emissions. This validation is crucial for ensuring the accuracy and reliability of GHG emissions estimates, as the uncertainties in data availability and modelling techniques can affect their precision.