1. Country Experiences with Reporting Forums The Brazilian Case
Dalton de Morisson Valeriano
INPE – Brazilian National Institute for Space Research
Earth Observation Coordination Area
Brazilian Biomes Environmental Monitoring Program
GFOI 2018 Plennary, Bogotá,Colombia, March 12-16, 2018

2. Major Forums
UNFCCC/IPCC
UNFCCC/REDD+
FAO

3. Major Reports UNFCCC/IPCC Green House Gases Emission Reports and BURs
UNFCCC/REDD+
Forest Reference Emission Level and MRVs for REDD+
FAO
Forest Resource Assessment

4. Major Source of Disharmony: Different folks for similar strokes
UNFCCC/IPCC
Green House Gases Emission Reports and BURs
UNFCCC/REDD+
Forest Reference Emission Level and MRVs for REDD+
FAO
Forest Resource Assessment

5. Major Source of Disharmony: Different folks for similar strokes
UNFCCC/IPCC
Green House Gases Emission Reports and BURs
Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC)
UNFCCC/REDD+
Forest Reference Emission Level and MRVs for REDD+
Ministry of Environment (MMA)
FAO
Forest Resource Assessment
Brazilian Forest Service (SFB/MMA)

6. MCTIC Attributions and Organization
Responsible for national policies on
Telecommunications
Science, Technology and Innovation
Informatics and Automation
Biosecurity
Space
Nuclear
Additional attributions
Postal Services, Telecommunication and Radio Broadcasting
Articulations with federal, state and municipal administrations and civil society for directives for policies on science, technology and innovation

7. MCTIC Attributions and Organization
Five Secretariats:
Radio diffusion
Policies and Programs for Research and Development
Technological and Innovation Development
Telecommunications
Policies for Informatics

8. Secretariat for Policies and Programs for Research and Development
Directory for
GHG emission
inventory

9. MMA Attributions and Organization
National policy for the environment and water resources
Policies for preservation, conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems, biodiversity and forests
Proposals of strategies, mechanisms and economic and social instruments for the improvement of the environmental quality and sustainable use of natural resources
Policies for the integration of environment and production
Policies and programs for the Amazon Region
Ecological-economic land zoning

10. MMA Attributions and Organization
Secretariats
Climate Change and Forests
Biodiversity
Water Resources and Environmental Quality
Extractivism and Sustainable Rural Development
Institutional Articulation and Environmental Citizenship
Secretariat for Climate Change and Forests
Department for Policies in Climate Change
Department for Monitoring, Support and Financing of Climate Change Actions
Department for Forest and Deforestation Control
General Coordination for Transparency and Finances for Forests (REDD+ Policies)

11. SFB/MMA Attributions and Organization
Among many forest and forest products management policies, SFB is responsible to mantain the National Forest Information System from which the National Forest Resource Assessment is retrieved to be conveyed to FAO.

12. Reporting History in a Nutshell
First GHG Inventory Report ( )
Full mapping of deforestation for Amazon, Atlantic Forest and Pantanal biomes
Pampa not considered
Regeneration not accounted
Emission Factor estimated by biome based on
experts reports and literature data
Only AGB cosnsidered

13. Reporting History in a Nutshell
Second GHG Inventory ( )
Full mapping of deforestation and regeneration for all biomes
Emission Factor estimated by vegetation types and
1: international cartographic tiling according to
RADAM (1972) Reports
AGB and BGB accounted
Consequence:
First report had to be redone to keep consistency over reports

14. Reporting History in a Nutshell
Third GHG Inventory ( )
Full mapping of deforestation and regeneration for all biomes
Emission Factor estimated by vegetation types and
1: international cartographic tiling according to
RADAM (1972) Reports and literature data smoothed by spline method.
All compartments but soil carbon were accounted
Consequence:
Previous reports had to be reviewed

15. Reporting History in a Nutshell
First REDD+ FREL Report
Only Amazon biome and only deforestation
Emission Factor estimated According to the Second GHG Emission Inventory
Commitment to attain all requirements for FREL and MRV, with priority to the Cerrado biome
Submitted and aproved in 2015

16. Reporting History in a Nutshell
Second REDD+ FREL Report
Cerrado Biome biome and only deforestation
Emission Factor estimated According to the Second GHG Emission Inventory
not accepted
Difficulty to retrieve emission fator from third GHG emission inventory for all
compartments are aggregated and spline function not
available
Submission still in course

17. Reporting History in a Nutshell
Issue with the FRA
Forest cover definition derived from the Official
Brazilian Vegetation Map not consistent with the
criteria adopted by MCTI and MMA
Task done independently and followed FAO criteria
for forest definition

18. Reporting History in a Nutshell
Further issue
Official Brazilian Vegetation Map is responsability of
another agency, Brazilian Institute for Geography
and Statistcs (IBGE/MPOG)
Map is based on 1972 RADAM map, reviewed in
1992 and 2012 with minor cartographic changes
and major vegetation classification changes

19. Brazil is not for amateurs (Tom Jobim)
In Short:
Brazil is not for amateurs
(Tom Jobim)
Thank you