1. JRC technical workshop on LULUCF issues under the Kyoto Protocol Brussels, 9-10 November 2010

2. 13.11.2008 - 14.11.2008 Technical workshop on LULUCF reporting issues under the Kyoto Protocol 27.11.2006 - 29.11.2006 Technical meeting on specific forestry issues related to reporting and accounting under the Kyoto Protocol http://afoludata.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/public_area/events_policy

3. Share experiences and discuss problems encountered in first year of LULUCF reporting under Kyoto Protocol, including issues emerged during the UNFCCC review process Assess the needs emerging from MS in the context of LULUCF KP reporting and the possible contribution that JRC could provide in coming years in terms of expertise/datasets/information Objectives of this Workshop

4. 9 November 10.00 – 11.00 Overview of MS LULUCF GHG inventories under the Convention, and common problems identified during the EU QA/QC (Viorel Blujdea, JRC) 11.00 - 11.20Coffee break 11.20 - 12.00 Overview of MS LULUCF reporting under the KP (Giacomo Grassi, JRC) Problems identified during the UNFCCC reviews: overview of issues in the EU and MS LULUCF submissions under KP and way forward (Giacomo Grassi, JRC) 12.00 - 13.00Short presentations by MS on reporting and review issues under the KP, e.g.: -Challenges encountered in fulfilling KP LULUCF reporting requirements -Answers to problems identified in Saturday papers by UN review teams -Planned improvements Already announced presentations include AT, DK, FI, IE, IT, CZ, GR, FR – all the other MS are encouraged to present something possibly through power point presentation. 13.00 - 14.30Lunch break 14.30 - 16.20Short presentations by MS or reporting and review issues under the KP (continued) 16.20 - 16.40Coffee break 16.40 - 18.30Discussion on common reporting and review issues emerged during MS presentations, e.g. land identification, C pools not reported (not a source), direct human-induced AR, harmonization in the use of notation keys, future EU QA/QC, etc. Agenda

5. 10 November 9.00 - 11.00 Presentations by UK, ROU (and others if needed) Presentations on methodological issues General methodological issues - Methodological issues under KP LULUCF: experiences from Hungary (Z.Somogyi, HU) - Historic representation and land use for reporting ARD (Kevin G. Black, IE) - Slovenian forest inventory data and LULUCF reporting (Gal Kusar and P. Simoncic, SI) 11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break 11.20 - 13.00 Discussion on reporting DOM and Soils - Estimating soil carbon emission and sinks for ARD and FM lands of Kyoto protocol - case Finland (A. Lehtonen, FI) - Implications of using Tier 2 and Tier 3 modelling in reporting SOC change in soils under KP 3.4 (Steen Gyldenkærne, DK) - A methodology for estimating the C pool of stumps at a national scale (Hans Petersson, SE) 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch break 14.30 – 16.30 Discussion on uncertainty assessment - Uncertainties in and verification of soil organic C change estimates (E.Karltun, SE) - Uncertainty in the LULUCF sector (Hans Petersson, SE) - Assessment of LULUCF uncertainties at EU level (Viorel Blujdea, JRC) Conclusions and way forward

6. The EU LULUCF inventory and the role of JRC Checking of MS inventories for errors and inconsistencies, and interaction with national representatives. Compilation of the LULUCF chapter of EU GHG inventory Efforts for improving / harmonizing MS inventories (e.g. through workshops, databases), in cooperation with the research community