Projects "International Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services"
Team Forest Ecosystem
Links to ongoing project 
Links to finished project:
Water Management for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptive Development in the Lowlands
(Waclimad)
Information: P.J. (Peter) van der Meer Start: 2010 Finish: 2011
Location(s): Indonesia
Client: Worldbank
Main project features:
- WACLIMAD is designed to establish a policy dialogue between key-stakeholders and ministries involved in peat- and lowland management in Indonesia. It also wants to develop an integrated lowland database, and develop the national lowland strategy and action plan for Indonesian lowlands.
- Position(s) held: Peatland Forest REDD Expert
Activities performed:
- Develop framework to assess opportunities and risks in setting up REDD+;
- Establish the needs for Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV);
- Apply framework in workshop setting to data collected in step 1;
- Formulate and write recommendations and conclusions for each region.`(NB Planned for 2011)
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Objectives:
- Scenario and model development for the analysis of ecosystem services in China’s development within the high level Task Force on Ecosystems Services and Management under the China Council for international Cooperation on Environment and Development
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Carbon Pools Emissions Project Malaysia
Coordinator: P.J. (Peter) van der Meer Start: 2008 Finish: 2012
Location(s): Sarawak, Malaysia
Client: Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Netherlands
Malaysia – The Netherlands Joint Committee on Carbon Emissions
Main project features:
 Identify recent land use changes and peat land development in Malaysia;
- Measure the net ecosystem CO2 flux of undrained peat swamp forest, drained peat swamp forest and oil palm plantation on peat;
- Quantify the carbon content of forest and oil palm biomass on peat;
- Identify management measures that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from peatland cultivation; development of projects using the REDD mechanism to finance sustainable use of forested areas.
Activities performed: 
- Project formulation & Project management,
- Responsible for the overall coordination and implementation of the study on carbon pools in peat swamp forest areas in Sarawak
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Reports:
- Caspar Verwer , Peter van der Meer & Gert-Jan Nabuurs, 2008. Review of carbon flux estimates and other greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm cultivation on Tropical peatlands - Identifying the gaps in Knowledge. Wageningen, Alterra, Alterra-rapport 1731. 44 blz.; .8 figs.; 1 tables.; 66 refs. Verweretal2008_AlterraRapport1731.pdf
- C.C. Verwer , P.J.van der Meer, 2010. Carbon pools in the tropical peat forests - Towards a reference value for forest biomass carbon in relatively undisturbed peat swamp forest in Southeast Asia. Wageningen, Alterra, Alterra-report 2108. 64 p.; 12 fig.; 17 tables; 121 ref. VerwervdMeer2010_AlterraRapport2108.pdf
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