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Documents related to the LULUCF sector

under the UNFCCC, the KP and beyond

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I. First Commitment Period

General legal texts

  • UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), full text in various formats:    html,     pdf

  • Kyoto Protocol (KP), full text in various formats:     html,     pdf

  • Some Portions of Kyoto Protocol Articles that are Relevant to Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry issues

  • Full text of the Marrakech Accords (MA)

  • containing all decisions
  • The most important sections of the MA related to forestry:

  • Decision 11/CP.7: Land use, land-use change and forestry (from FCCC/CP/2001/13/Add.1)

  • Draft Decision -/CMP.1 (Land use, land-use change and forestry) (from FCCC/CP/2001/13/Add.1)

  • Decision 22/CP.7 Guidelines for the preparation of the information required under Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol: (from FCCC/CP/2001/13/Add.3)


  • Reporting, review and adjustment

  • Reporting and review in general

    • UNFCCC guidelines on reporting and review

    • KP guidelines: Guidance on reporting of supplementary information on land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) activities under Article 3.3 and 3.4 to be included in an annex to the national inventory report

     

  • CRF tables for LULUCF

  • UNFCCC CRF: Guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention, Part I: UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories (following incorporation of the provisions of decision 13/CP.9): (FCCC/SBSTA/2004/8 3 September 2004)

  • Kyoto CRF: Guidance on reporting of supplementary information on land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) activities under Article 3.3 and 3.4 to be included in an annex to the national inventory report:
     

  • "Adjustment": Draft text of Completion of the technical guidance on methodologies for adjustments under Article 5, paragraph 2, of the Kyoto Protocol: FCCC/SBSTA/2005/2


  • Summary of LULUCF accounting rules (as presented in the UNFCCC website)

            see also Draft Decision -/CMP.1 (Land use, land-use change and forestry) (from FCCC/CP/2001/13/Add.1)


    CDM issues

  • Decision 17/CP.7 Modalities and procedures for a clean development mechanism as defined in Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol

  • Decision 19/CP.9 Modalities and procedures for afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (from FCCC/CP/2003/6/Add.2)

  • Simplified modalities and procedures for small-scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and measures to facilitate their implementation

  • CDM Guidelines for completing the Project Design Document for A/R (CDM-AR-PDD), the proposed new methodology for A/R: baseline (CDM-AR-NMB), and the proposed new methodology for A/R: monitoring (CDM-AR-NMM)

  • CDM proposed new methodology for A/R: project design document (CDM-AR-PDD)

  • CDM proposed new methodology for A/R: baseline (CDM-AR-NMB)

  • CDM proposed new methodology for A/R: monitoring (CDM-AR-NMM)

  • CDM simplified project design document for small-scale project activities (SSC-PDD)

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    Good Practice Guidance for LULUCF (IPCC 2003)

        The most important sections on forest related issues:

  • Chapter 2

  • Chapter 3.0;     Chapter 3.1;     Chapter 3.2;    Chapter 3.3;     Chapter 3.4;     Annex81;     Annex82;     Annex9;     Ref.

  • Chapter 4.0;     Chapter 4.1,     Chapter 4.2.1-4.2.7,     Chapter 4.2.8-4.2.10,     Chapter 4.3    Annex;     Ref.


  • IPCC Special report on land use, land use change and forestry: Summary for policymakers (for the full report, see GRID Website)

     

     

    II. Issues related to the second commitment period

     

    III. Other