6. Temporal Data are not sufficient to Data are only available coverage generate one year every 10 years and at a assessments but more data lower resolution than B1 will become available and at high resolution 7. Capacity for disaggregation 8. Transparency Disagreed with the options Disagreed with the options and soundness paper that the methodology paper and states that there published and peer are data available which reviewed; a peer review is in has been published in the progress but this has not peer-reviewed literature Methodology been published 9. Precision 10. Policy Disagreed with the options Indicator is an indirect Indicator is an indirect Disagreed with the option paper, relevance: progress paper that it relates directly to measure of the service but measure of the service but stating there is an indirect, rather towards progress towards 2020 targets, directly measures the target directly measures the than a direct, relationship to Biodiversity 2020 and felt instead that there is no delivered by the service target delivered by the progress towards 2020 targets. Adds targets (CBD, EU, relationship unless green spaces service that there is a lack of knowledge as UK, country) are taken into account in which to how much carbon is sequestered case there would be an indirect by different types of forests – native Characteristics relationship vs conifers or mixed vs monocultures for example; and that generally the more forest the better but the Indicator relationship needs to be fully understood
6. Temporal coverage Data are not sufficient to generate one year assessments but more data will become available and at high resolution Data are only available every 10 years and at a lower resolution than B1 7. Capacity for disaggregation Methodology 8. Transparency and soundness Disagreed with the options paper that the methodology published and peer reviewed; a peer review is in progress but this has not been published Disagreed with the options paper and states that there are data available which has been published in the peer-reviewed literature 9. Precision Indicator Characteristics 10. Policy relevance: progress towards Biodiversity 2020 targets (CBD, EU, UK, country) Disagreed with the options paper that it relates directly to progress towards 2020 targets, and felt instead that there is no relationship unless green spaces are taken into account in which case there would be an indirect relationship Indicator is an indirect measure of the service but directly measures the target delivered by the service Indicator is an indirect measure of the service but directly measures the target delivered by the service Disagreed with the option paper, stating there is an indirect, rather than a direct, relationship to progress towards 2020 targets. Adds that there is a lack of knowledge as to how much carbon is sequestered by different types of forests – native vs conifers or mixed vs monocultures for example; and that generally the more forest the better but the relationship needs to be fully understood
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