Introduction

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Reporting Guidelines on Annual Inventories require Parties to provide annual national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories covering emissions and removals of direct GHGs from six sectors, and for all years from the base year to the most recent year.

The six Sectors are 1. Energy, 2. Industrial processes, 3.Solvent & Other Product Use, 4. Agriculture, 5. Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry and 6. Waste.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and, more recently, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) take the lead in preparing the annual inventory of greenhouse gas emissions for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology has been responsible for preparing the Sector 5 tables relating to Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) .

Sector 5: Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Reports, Inventory data and related publications can be downloaded from this site.

Links - Further Information

• IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme
• UNFCCC - Background Information
• UNFCCC - Latest submission, National Inventory Submission 2009
• Statistics about Climate Change from DECC
• UK Greenhouse Gas Statistics (enter 'greenhouse' as keyword search term)
• IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

Links - Related Research

• Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Biogeochemistry Programme
• National Soil Carbon Modelling Project
• NERC Open Research Archive

Contact:

Heath Malcolm
hmm@ceh.ac.uk

Dr Amanda Thomson
amath@ceh.ac.uk