Chapter 4: Supplementary Methods and GPG Arising from the Kyoto Protocol Sections 4'1

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Chapter 4 Supplementary Methods and GPG Arising
from the Kyoto Protocol (Sections 4.1 4.2)

• CLA Bernhard Schlamadinger (Austria), Henry
  Janzen (Canada), Werner Kurz (Canada), Rodel
  Lasco (Philippines), Kansri Boonpragob
  (Thailand), and Pete Smith (UK)
• LAPascale Collas (Canada), El Nur Abdalla El
  Siddig (Sudan), Andreas Fischlin (Switzerland),
  Mitsuo Matsumoto (Japan), Alexander Nakhutin
  (Russia), Ian Noble (Australia), Gerome Pignard
  (France), Zoltan Somogyi (Hungary), and Xiao-Quan
  Zhang (China)
• CA Mark Easter (USA), Genevieve Patenaude
  (Canada), Keith Paustian (USA, and Yoshiki
  Yamagata (Japan)
• Presented by
• Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

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Objective

• To describe the information requirements, methods
  and good practice guidance for the reporting of
  CO2 and non-CO2 emissions by sources and removals
  by sinks as required by the Kyoto Protocol
  (Articles 3.3, 3.4, 6 and 12) that are
  supplementary to those for National Greenhouse
  Gas Inventories.

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General approach

• Identify lands (definitional and temporal
  constraints) - eligible after human actions
  provide supplementary methods to chapter 2
• Establish estimate of C stock changes and non-CO2
  GHG emissions on these lands provide
  supplementary methods to chapter 3

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Table of Contents

• 4.1 General overview
• 4.1.1 Roadmap to estimating and reporting
  supplementary information for activities under
  articles 3.3, 3.4, 6 and 12
• 4.1.2 General rules for categorisation of land
  areas under articles 3.3 and 3.4
• 4.1.3 Relationship between annex I parties
  national inventories and article 6 projects
• 4.2 Methods for estimation, measurement,
  monitoring and reporting of LULUCF activities
  under articles 3.3 and 3.4
• 4.2.1 Relationship between UNFCCC land categories
  and Kyoto Protocol (articles 3.3 and 3.4) land
  categories
• 4.2.2 Generic methodologies for area
  identification, stratification and reporting
• 4.2.3 Generic methodological issues for
  estimating C stock change and greenhouse gas
  emissions
• 4.2.4 Other generic methodological issues
• 4.2.5 Afforestation and reforestation
• 4.2.6 Deforestation
• 4.2.7 Forest management
• 4.2.8 Cropland management
• 4.2.9 Grazing land management
• 4.2.10 Revegetation

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4.1.1. Roadmap

• STEP 1. Defining forest, application of
  definitions to national circumstances,
  establishing a hierarchy among selected Article
  3.4 activities
• STEP 2. Identify lands subject to activities
  under Article 3.3 and any elected activities
  under Article 3.4
• STEP 3. Estimate carbon stock changes and non-CO2
  greenhouse gas emissions on the lands identified
  under Step 2 above
• STEP 4. Identify areas and estimate carbon stock
  changes and non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions in
  Article 12 projects.

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Demonstration of classification of a unit of land
under Article 3.3 (ARD) or land under Article 3.4
(FM, CM, GM and RV) as of year X of the
Commitment Period (2008, 20092012)
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Relationship between Article 3.3 and 3.4
activities and basic land-use categories
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Land Classification in the national inventories
under the UNFCCC of a Hypothetical Country in
Year X of the Commitment Period
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Land classification for Kyoto Protocol reporting
for a hypothetical country in year X of the
commitment period.
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Two Reporting Methods for Land Subject to
Articles 3.3 and 3.4 Activities
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Relationship between Approaches in Chapter 2 and
Reporting methods in Chapter 4.
(statistical only)
(land-use transitions)
(full tracking of all land)
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Decision Tree for Choosing Reporting Method for
Land Subject to Activities under Articles 3.3 and
3.4
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Common subsections for AR, D, FM, CM, GM and RV

• Definitional and Methodological issues
• 1990 BASE YEAR (CM, GM, RV)
• Choice of methods for identifying lands
• Choice of methods for estimating C stock changes
• Choice of activity data and emission factors
• Completeness
• Developing a consistent time series
• Reporting and documentation
• QA/QC
• For CM, GM RV the following sections
• Mineral soils
• CO2 emissions/removals from organic soils
• CO2 emissions from liming
• Choice of methods for estimating non-CO2
  emissions

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Decision tree to determine whether a land
qualifies as forest management
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Decision tree to select the tier for estimating
for carbon emissions/removals from mineral soils
under the Kyoto Protocol
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Summary table of greenhouse gas emissions by
sources and removals by sinks by articles 3.3 and
3.4 activities for the inventory year y
Reporting is annual but measurements might be
less frequent
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Status

• Meeting in KL - mainly to deal with comments from
  first government review
• Focus in KL was on addressing comments,
  rationalisation and some major restructuring
• Translation of statement of the scientific
  problem to practical GPG
• Draft for Second Review submitted