JRC technical workshop on LULUCF issuesunder the Kyoto Protocol

Brussels, 9-10 November 2010

13.11.2008 - 14.11.2008Technical workshop on LULUCF reporting issues under the Kyoto Protocol

27.11.2006 - 29.11.2006Technical meeting on specific forestry issues related to reporting and accounting under the Kyoto Protocol

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Share experiences and discuss problems encountered in first year of LULUCF reporting under Kyoto Protocol, including issues emerged during the UNFCCC review process

Assess the needs emerging from MS in the context of LULUCF KP reporting and the possible contribution that JRC could provide in coming years in terms of expertise/datasets/information

Objectives of this Workshop

9 November

10.00 – 11.00 Overview of MS’ LULUCF GHG inventories under the Convention, and common problems identified during the EU QA/QC (Viorel Blujdea, JRC)

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break11.20 - 12.00 Overview of MS’ LULUCF reporting under the KP (Giacomo Grassi, JRC)

Problems identified during the UNFCCC reviews: overview of issues in the EU and MS LULUCF submissions under KP and way forward (Giacomo Grassi, JRC)

12.00 - 13.00 Short presentations by MS on reporting and review issues under the KP, e.g.: -Challenges encountered in fulfilling KP LULUCF reporting requirements-Answers to problems identified in “Saturday papers” by UN review teams-Planned improvements Already announced presentations include AT, DK, FI, IE, IT, CZ, GR, FR – all the other MS are encouraged to present something possibly through power point presentation.

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch break14.30 - 16.20 Short presentations by MS or reporting and review issues under the KP (continued) 16.20 - 16.40 Coffee break16.40 - 18.30 Discussion on common reporting and review issues emerged during MS

presentations, e.g. land identification, C pools not reported (not a source), direct human-induced AR, harmonization in the use of notation keys, future EU QA/QC, etc.

Agenda

10 November 9.00 - 11.00 Presentations by UK, ROU (and others if needed)

Presentations on methodological issues

General methodological issues - Methodological issues under KP LULUCF: experiences from Hungary (Z.Somogyi, HU)- Historic representation and land use for reporting ARD (Kevin G. Black, IE)- Slovenian forest inventory data and LULUCF reporting (Gal Kusar and P. Simoncic, SI)

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break11.20 - 13.00 Discussion on reporting DOM and Soils

- Estimating soil carbon emission and sinks for ARD and FM lands of Kyoto protocol - case Finland (A. Lehtonen, FI)- Implications of using Tier 2 and Tier 3 modelling in reporting SOC change in soils under KP 3.4 (Steen Gyldenkærne, DK)- A methodology for estimating the C pool of stumps at a national scale (Hans Petersson, SE)

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch break14.30 – 16.30 Discussion on uncertainty assessment

- Uncertainties in and verification of soil organic C change estimates (E.Karltun, SE)- Uncertainty in the LULUCF sector (Hans Petersson, SE)- Assessment of LULUCF uncertainties at EU level (Viorel Blujdea, JRC)

Conclusions and way forward

The EU LULUCF inventory and the role of JRC

Checking of MS inventories for errors and inconsistencies, and interaction with national representatives.

Compilation of the LULUCF chapter of EU GHG inventory

Efforts for improving / harmonizing MS inventories (e.g. through workshops, databases), in cooperation with the research community