The rules for land use, land use change and forestry under the Kyoto 
Protocol-lessons learned for the future climate negotiations

Hohne, N.; Wartmann, S.; Herold, A.; Freibauer, A.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2007.02.001

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The rules for land use, land use change and forestry under the Kyoto Protocol-lessons learned for the future climate negotiations

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Freibauer, A.
Department Biogeochemical Processes, Prof. E.-D. Schulze, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Hohne, N., Wartmann, S., Herold, A., & Freibauer, A. (2007). The rules for land use, land use change and forestry under the Kyoto Protocol-lessons learned for the future climate negotiations. Environmental Science and Policy, 10(4), 353-369. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2007.02.001.

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This paper provides an over-view of the rules for accounting emissions of land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) for the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. It first describes the rules in detail, it then provides an over-view of the history of negotiations that led to these rules and provides resulting conclusions for future international climate negotiations. We conclude that the current rules can be better understood in the light of the negotiation history. For the future, we conclude that first an agreement on the objectives of including LULUCF in the future climate regime should be developed, e.g. to contribute significantly to the ultimate objective of the convention. Further, a solid set of data should be developed that can assess the magnitude of possible options. The rules should be scientifically sound, complete and balanced as well as unambiguous before the quantitative targets are defined. They should further be simple and inclusive to include all carbon pools, i.e. provide incentives to avoid deforestation and unsustainable logging in all countries. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. [References: 23]