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Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions and REDD+

The landmark REDD+ agreement reached at Cancun has significant potential to protect and restore the world’s forests. This ECA paper argues that Parties should not allow the extensive work put into REDD+ to now be undermined by the use of alternative and less stringent provisions relating to Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Activities (NAMAs).

Humane Society International's Special Bulletin, Part 1.

It is time for developed countries to get real about the real impact of land and forestry sector emissions on their economy wide emission reduction targets. Action in the Land use, land use change and forestry(LULUCF) sector can – and should - strengthen ambition in setting higher targets. Instead, current accounting rules, and proposed changes to them, actually improperly inflate the targets of Annex 1 Parties.

Forests in Exhaustion

At the upcoming climate change talks in Cancun, Mexico, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) will consider a controversial proposal from Brazil to amend the Clean Development Mechanism to include “Forests in Exhaustion”. "Forests in Exhaustion: An ECA Guide for the Perplexed" explains the proposal and sets out the key issues.

This Question & Answer booklet aims to give insight into the opportunities and obstacles with regard to reporting and accounting for changes in carbon stores in, and anthropogenic greenhouse gas fluxes from, terrestrial ecosystems. Special attention is paid to ‘wetland management’, a proposed new accounting activity under LULUCF for which huge emissions reduction potentials are readily available.

The Global Peatland CO2 Picture

The report presents the first overview ever of peatland carbon data for all countries and regions of the world. This overview has been produced to facilitate the UNFCCC climate negotiations in response to a call by countries for emission data caused by the Land Use Change and Forestry sector. For every country/area information is given on extent and status of peatlands, volume of the peat resource and on CO2 emissions from different types of land use, both for the year 1990 as well as for the year 2008.

The post-Kyoto United Nations climate agreement is at risk of subsidising industrial scale logging of primary forests, according to Trick or Treat?: REDD, Development and Sustainable Forest Management, a briefing paper released October 2^nd by Global Witness. Without good governance and a focus on protecting intact natural forests rather than the forest industry, any climate agreement has little chance of addressing the nearly 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions that stem from the destruction of tropical forests and peatlands.

Vested Interests - industrial logging and carbon in tropical forests

A review of the immediate and substantial carbon emissions caused by industrial logging practices. Even "best practice" logging (often carried out under the guise of "sustainable forest management") has serious adverse climate change implications.

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Are emission reductions from peatlands MRV-able?

Globally very significant GHG benefits can accrue by avoiding peatland degradation and by actively restoring peatlands. This report, produced for the UNFCCC Climate Change Talks in Bonn, June 2009, addresses the question whether the results of such actions are measurable, reportable and verifiable.

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Emission factors for managed peat soils - An analysis of IPCC default values

This paper evaluates IPCC approaches to greenhouse gas emissions from managed organic (peat) soils and notices that the IPCC Guidelines 2006. This report was produced for the UNFCCC Climate Change Talks in Bonn, June 2009.

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HOW ANNEX I PARTIES AVOID THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES IN LULUCF
(RULES MADE BY LOGGERS FOR LOGGERS)

The rules, definitions and guidelines on land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) under the Kyoto Protocol contain what are routinely referred to as the LULUCF perversities, since their application results in perverse outcomes in relation to climate change. This brief guide explains the complexities of land use change and forestry components of LULUCF and identifies the key problems in the LULUCF rules and definitions.

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