Stakeholders and landowners present at the launch of the Fiji National REDD-plus policy were in a collective agreement that significant progress had been made towards the establishment of a national MRV (measuring, reporting, and verification) system. The two main considerations for forest carbon monitoring were forest area change and forest carbon change. Forest area change is undertaken by remote sensing whereas forest carbon stock measurement is undertaken by means of forest inventory on the ground combined with detailed maps commonly generated through remote sensing. Read More