Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry

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How the development of Good Practice Guidance for LULUCF fits into IPCC operations

The IPCC currently operates through three Working Groups and a Task Force. The development of the Good Practice Guidance for LULUCF falls under the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, within the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme (NGGIP). The objectives of the IPCC-NGGIP are:

• to develop and refine an internationally-agreed methodology and software for the calculation and reporting of national GHG emissions and removals; and
• to encourage the widespread use of this methodology by countries participating in the IPCC and by signatories of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The IPCC - NGGIP relevant to LULUCF has three tasks:

Task 1 - development of Good Practice Guidance for the LULUCF sector

Task 2 – development of definitions for direct human induced degradation of forests and devegetation of other vegetation types and methodological options to inventory and report on emissions from these activities (this task is being addressed in tandem with task 1)

Task 3 – development of practicable methodologies to factor out direct human-induced changes in carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks from those due to indirect human-induced and natural effects, and effects due to past practices in forests (this task is still in the scoping phase)

Links for More Information

Website links

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
IPCC - National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme

Important documents

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
The Kyoto Protocol (1997)
Good Practice Guidance (GPG2000)
Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (2000)
The Marrakesh Accords (p54)

For more information contact:

Beverley.Henry@greenhouse.crc.org.au
Karel.Mokany@greenhouse.crc.org.au

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