Establishing a National Forest Monitoring System to Enhance Transparency and Build REDD+ Readiness in Cambodia - UNFA/CMB/041/UND
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Cambodia has approximately 9.45 million ha of forest cover (53 percent of total land area), yet it lost 3 million ha to deforestation between 2000 and 2010 alone. Rapid deforestation and increased risks to slow and quick-onset weather events disproportionately affect Cambodia’s rural and forest-dependent populations. Forests, however, historically served as natural sinks of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). Therefore, the Royal Government of Cambodia called for a holistic approach to natural resource management and climate change mitigation, paying special attention to deforestation, landscape degradation and GHG emissions from forestry. The project worked to establish the National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS), enabling Cambodian authorities to better collect, analyze, monitor and report data on forest cover, land use, resource management and GHG emissions. To this end, geographic information systems (GIS) and information and communication technologies (ICTs) were used in building national REDD+ readiness capacities.