The National Forest Monitoring System as part of the National Strategy on Climate Change and Vegetation Resources in Chile

For more than a decade, Chile has been committed to reducing emissions related to deforestation and forest degradation, as well as to enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+). As part of these efforts, the country’s National Forestry Corporation (Corporación Nacional Forestal, CONAF), published the Monitoring and Measurement System (Sistema de Medición y Monitoreo, SMM) in 2018. The SMM, encompasses the NFMS and provides relevant stakeholders with transparent, accurate data, helps monitor reporting of forestry and land use for the Paris Agreement, strengthens the country’s National Greenhouse Gases Inventory, and much more. The system has struggled with uncertain greenhouse gas reporting, low quality data, and inadequate institutional capacities. However, it has also increased collaboration, with the establishment of the Inter-ministerial Technical Committee on Climate Change in Chile, with consultation workshops for actors from various sectors.