To identify areas to implement measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Vietnam

To identify areas to implement measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Vietnam

- Measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions include:

+ Protect natural forests;

+ Protect coastal forests;

+ Planting new protection forests, special-use forests, and production forests on non-forest land;

+ Zoning to promote natural regeneration, zoning to promote natural regeneration with additional planting, enriching forests, and nurturing natural forests;

+ Develop large timber plantations;

+ Develop agroforestry models;

+ Sustainable forest management.

- Identifying areas to implement mitigation measures:

+ Identify information and data to determine mitigation measures, including: a map of forest status at the time of determining the implementation area; a boundary map of 3 forest types; a map of payments for forest environmental services; Topographic maps include layers of administrative boundaries, contour lines, elevation points, residential areas, and roads;

+ Develop thematic information layers to determine the boundaries of each mitigation measure, including: the forest status boundary layer from the forest status map; the functional zoning layer of special-use forests from the boundary map of 3 forest types; the boundary layer of the area covered by payments for forest environmental services from the map of payments for forest environmental services; the digital elevation model layer from the topographic map; the slope layer from the digital elevation model; the distance layer to residential areas from the residential area layer of the topographic map; the distance layer to main roads from the roads layer of the topographic map;

+ Determine the boundaries of each mitigation measure: Perform a spatial overlay of thematic information layers using geographic information system software into a general information layer; Analyze and select boundaries for each mitigation measure.

Circular 23/2023/TT-BNNPTNT takes effect on February 1, 2024.

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