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Carbon Inventory 2017
Project
Project code: TI-WO-08-PID1736
Contract period: 01.01.2015
- 31.12.2020
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Forests are important carbon pools. The aim of the Carbon Inventory 2017 is to determine the carbon stocks changes in living biomass and dead wood in the forests during the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol for the whole of Germany. Germany is legally oligated to provide annually the National Inventory Report for the German Greenhouse Gas Inventory due to the convention on climate change, the Kyoto protocol and the EU decision 280/2004/EC. The reporting includes among the other sectors Energy, Industrial Processes, Solvent, Agriculture and Waste, the bilances for carbon sinks and sources for the sector Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry too. The calculation of carbon sinks and sources in German forest are based on data from the National Forest Inventory (NFI) and the German Soil Condition Survey in Forest. To meet the good practice guidelines Carbon Inventories are conducted in addition to the regular NFI, which will repeated every 10 years . These Carbon Inventories are identical to the NFI in Methodology but are concentrated on relevant pools for the reporting only, like above-ground and below-ground living biomass and dead wood. The carbon inventory 2017 aims at: 1. the survey of storages and their changes in the relavant carbon pools 2. the tracking of geographic explicit land use changes 3. the development of survey methods for the next NFI and acts as an inventory on a sub-sample between two regular NFI.
Section overview
Subjects
- Silviculture
- Climate Change
- Computer science
