Consolidating the national monitoring capacity of the impact of forest and landscape restoration actions on CO2 sequestration
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Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) initiatives grew significantly in the past 10 years in Lebanon, highlighting the strong commitment of the Lebanese Government and stakeholders to restoration of forests and landscapes as attested by the National Afforestation/Reforestation Plan and the National Forest Program launched respectively in 2012 and 2015. ”The Paris agreement in action” project funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry of the Environment (BMU) offered the ministries of agriculture and environment the chance to analyze key national restoration actions and their impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reductions. A specialized tool that enables both ministries to estimate the past and future impact of restoration actions was developed. The ability to project the impact of restoration actions (e.g. afforestation, forest and rangeland management, etc.) on GHG emissions/reductions will be helpful to line ministries in planning their restoration actions and encouraging national stakeholders to adjust theirs. This work revealed the leading FLR activity was reforestation/afforestation (5228 ha), whereas forest (1389 ha) and rangeland (1755 ha) management did not receive the attention they warrant. The management of forests and
rangelands urgently needs to gain prominence as a lower cost option that favors a wide range of ecosystem services. Finally, the effort done to assess the role of FLR on GHG emissions/reductions allowed for appropriate integration of FLR activities in Lebanon’s National Determined Contribution (NDC).
Keywords: Forest and Landscape Restoration, GHG emissions/reductions, National Determined Contribution, Monitoring and data collection, Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
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