On the Durban COP17 outcome for LULUCF (Part II)

Since 2008, the AWG-KP (the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (KP)) has conducted discussions on how to revise carbon accounting rules for LULUCF (Land use, land use change and forestry). Several options to replace the current rules were proposed. For the most part, these concerned carbon accounting under Forest management (FM) (Art. 3.4 of the KP)—in particular strategies for replacing the gross-net accounting approach and the "cap" with an alternative rule—and whether FM should be mandatory. Up to Durban, the fallback position has been to keep the rules as they are.