REDD+ and Carbon Accounting Training Course

Participants can define carbon accounting boundaries and select appropriate IPCC methods for forest emissions and removals.

• IPCC 2006 Guidelines and 2019 Refinement for AFOLU inventories
• Five IPCC carbon pools: biomass, deadwood, litter, soils, harvested wood
• Select emission factors, activity data and tier methods
• Stratify forest areas using land cover, age class and disturbance
• Build stock-difference calculations from field measurements and conversion factors
• Separate gross emissions, removals, leakage and reversals in accounting boundaries

Participants can specify measurement approaches that combine forest inventory, remote sensing and documented quality controls.

• Forest inventory design: sampling frames, strata, plots and plot allocation
• Apply allometric equations, wood density and expansion factors to trees
• Remote sensing classifications from Landsat, Sentinel-2 and high-resolution imagery
• Ground-truth map classes using confusion matrices and accuracy assessment
• Calculate biomass carbon, carbon dioxide equivalent and uncertainty estimates
• Document QA/QC procedures, version control and data lineage

Participants can develop and challenge baseline, additionality and leakage assumptions for REDD+ accounting.

• Construct historical baselines using deforestation rates, drivers and spatial allocation
• Assess additionality through regulatory surplus, common practice and investment tests
• Model planned deforestation with agents, accessibility and land-use suitability
• Set crediting baselines, monitoring periods and project area boundaries
• Quantify leakage from activity shifting and market effects
• Record baseline assumptions, evidence sources and parameter justification

Participants can calculate net emission reductions while applying uncertainty, conservativeness and permanence controls.

• Calculate avoided emissions from baseline, monitored change and emission factors
• Apply IPCC good practice guidance to uncertainty propagation
• Use Monte Carlo simulation for combined parameter uncertainty estimates
• Establish conservative deductions for uncertain data and methodological choices
• Quantify leakage deductions, buffer contributions and net credit volumes
• Prepare reproducible calculation workbooks with formula checks and audit trails

Participants can assess social and environmental safeguards evidence required for credible REDD+ programme governance.

• Apply Cancun Safeguards to biodiversity, communities, governance and natural forests
• Free, prior and informed consent procedures for affected Indigenous Peoples
• Assess land tenure, customary rights, grievances and benefit-sharing risks
• Screen conversion risk, biodiversity impacts and social displacement indicators
• Align stakeholder engagement records with verification evidence requirements
• Design grievance mechanisms, disclosure routes and corrective action registers

Participants can interpret major REDD+ standards and prepare evidence for validation, verification and credit issuance.

• Compare ART TREES, Verra JNR and project methodologies for REDD+ claims
• Interpret Verra VM0048 requirements for avoided unplanned deforestation projects
• Map jurisdictional nesting rules, allocation methods and double-counting controls
• Prepare project design documents, monitoring reports and evidence files
• Verification bodies, validation findings and corrective action response cycles
• Track issuance, retirement and registry serial numbers for credits

Participants can evaluate REDD+ credit quality, commercial terms and associated claims risks.

• Distinguish voluntary carbon credits, Article 6 units and results-based payments
• Evaluate vintage, methodology, jurisdiction, permanence and delivery risk
• Price carbon contracts using volume, quality, delivery and reversal terms
• Assess forward purchase agreements, ERPA clauses and payment milestones
• Apply ICVCM Core Carbon Principles to credit quality screening
• Identify claims risks under VCMI Claims Code and consumer protection rules

Participants can connect REDD+ credit records with financial accounting, emissions reporting and climate disclosures.

• Classify carbon credits as inventory, intangible assets or financial instruments
• Apply IFRS principles to purchased, generated and retired carbon credits
• Recognise liabilities from delivery obligations, reversals and contractual guarantees
• Reconcile registry balances, credit movements and general ledger records
• Report emissions using GHG Protocol land sector and removals guidance
• Connect REDD+ results to ISSB climate disclosures and transition plans

Participants can produce a practical implementation plan for REDD+ carbon accounting and assurance activities.

• Diagnose REDD+ programme readiness across data, governance, finance and safeguards
• Sequence baseline development, consultations, monitoring, validation and verification milestones
• Assign RACI accountabilities for forest agencies, communities, developers and buyers
• Set data governance controls for source files, approvals and retention
• Build risk registers covering fire, illegality, tenure disputes and reversals
• Draft a 90-day carbon accounting implementation plan with ownership