PROGRESS REPORT STAKEHOLDERS

Progress Report Stakeholders

Progress Report Stakeholders

To,

The Director,

Background

The LUCAS (Land Use and Carbon investigation scheme) events was established to enable New Zealand to encounters its describing and accounting obligations under Article 3.3 of the Kyoto Protocol for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) activities. LUCAS tasks are being undertaken in a kind conceived to meet Intergovernmental Panel on weather Change Good perform Guidance (IPCC GPG) - (IPCC 2003).

The LUCAS programme engages mapping land use at 1990, and then mapping land-use alterations for the time time span 1990-2007 and 2008-2012 (the first firm pledge Period). All mapping has engaged the comprehensive use of satellite imagery, some aerial taking photos and other spatial data.

The 2008 nationwide Inventory Report, which is due for submission in April 2010, will be the first time LULUCF sector facts and figures has arrive from LUCAS.

preceding Inventory Reports have utilised the nationwide bizare plantation Description (NEFD) - evolved and administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) - which has verified to be a good proxy until the LUCAS facts and figures was delivered.

outcomes of the LUCAS mapping

LUCAS has mapped post-1989 plantation (Kyoto plantation) locality as 566,106 hectares. This is 18,000 hectares lower than the approximate of eligible Kyoto plantation locality utilised in the 2009 snare place Report based on the NEFD.

The new LUCAS Kyoto plantation locality numbers would reduce the estimated uptake by the post-1989 timber plantations by roughly 3 million tonnes CO2 over the time span 2008 to 2012. Everything else being identical this would decrease the Kyoto surplus from 9.6 million flats to about 6.6 million flats.

The outcomes of the LUCAS mapping are shown in Table 1 below:

Class

Description

1990

2008

Difference

71

Natural Forest (key category)

8,141,990

8,087,091

-0.7%

72

Planted Forest - pre-1990 (key category)

1,478,847

1,451,900

38%

73

Post-1989 Forest (key class) Kyoto-eligible forest

566,106

74

Grassland - with woody biomass (key category)

1,151,909

1,029,415

-10.6%

>74

Non key ...