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Land-use rules
The role of forestry and changes in land-use in reducing greenhouse- gas emissions and tackling climate change was recognised in the Kyoto protocol. The EU has identified land-use, land-use change and forestry – known by the acronym LULUCF – as an important element in the Durban negotiations. In October, national environment ministers agreed that LULUCF was a crucial element in preserving the environmental integrity of the Kyoto protocol if it is going to be extended beyond 2012.
Ministers said that the Durban conference should approve a “robust LULUCF accounting framework”. In practice, the EU wants to have a reliable methodology for measuring the effects of LULUCF. “We need to have clear rules coming out of Durban,” said one official.
The EU has not put forward its own methodology and is waiting to see what proposals are presented by other parties in Durban.
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