Background
The project “Enabling the Implementation of Georgia’s Forest Sector Reform – ECO.Georgia” funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) with GIZ being the project’s accredited entity, supports the Government of Georgia to adapt to a new forest code and to implement its transformational Forest Sector Reform to reduce GHG emissions from forest degradation and enhancing carbon stock. The Project aims to establish sustainable forest management (SFM) in Georgia, to introduce energy efficient and climate-friendly technologies and to improve forest management.
A key component of this project is the development and implementation of a Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system tailored for the forest sector. This system is instrumental in tracking and reporting on the forest sector reform’s progress and impacts, monitoring GHG emission reductions in line with Georgia’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), and providing necessary information for all forestry-related reporting under the UNFCCC.
Activities
HEAT, in consortium with Aether Limited, provides a variety of services:
- Developing and applying methodologies for the annual assessment of carbon stock changes in Georgia’s forests
- Identifying and specifying necessary research activities for the accurate assessment of carbon stock changes
- Supporting the development of an institutional framework and relevant processes for the MRV system
- Building the capacity of stakeholders involved in the MRV system
- Designing a FIMS module on carbon stock changes.
- Providing annual calculations of carbon stock changes (based on modelling and a constantly improving data basis)-
- Supporting the Georgia mid-term review (2024/2025) with additional methodological information on the calculation of carbon stock changes.
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