Strategic plan: measurement, reporting and verification: AFOLU sector, 2016 to 2020

The Strategic plan: measurement, reporting and verification: AFOLU sector, 2016 to 2020 "sets out the proposed approach and actions required to develop a Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) approach for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector. The MRV of AFOLU is intended to consistently track, quantify and report both the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and impacts, and non-GHG impacts of emission reduction responses over a long-term period. This will enable South Africa to analyse, interrogate and combine data and inputs to generate the desired outputs (e.g. emissions profiles, management scenarios, (inter-)national reports). The ultimate intention is to develop a system as a full approach (spatially explicit) Tier 3 (country-specific disaggregated information) carbon system that can account for emissions and removals (to include other significant GHGs). Better GHG inventories for AFOLU mean better sink-source regulations and adaptation-mitigation connection."