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Stresa, 26-27 April 2017
- JRC LULUCF workshop 2017 -
Major issues facing Slovenia in LULUCF reporting and the establishment of a system for monitoring emissions and removals from
cropland and grazing land management
Boštjan Mali
Land-use structure and emission trends
Source: NIR 2017
LULUCF Decision
Art. 3(2):For the accounting period beginning on 1 January 2021, and thereafter, Member States shall prepare and maintain annual accounts that accurately reflect all emissions and removals resulting from cropland management and grazing land management
Table NIR1 – reporting to EU
Grassland remaining Grassland: NR
Cropland remaining Cropland: partly R
Key categories in LULUCF
Source: NIR 2017
Completeness
• „the problem of missing information“
• Art. 5: … MS shall ensure the accuracy, completeness, consistency, comparability, and transparency of their accounts …
• completeness can refer to a reporting or data
• data completeness:
activity data
emission factors
• notation keys are used to support completeness
Completeness of activity data
• Art. 2: The approach proposed discards the parallel Kyoto Protocol reporting framework and streamlines the system with the UNFCCC "land-based" reporting framework
• When activity data are complete?
IPCC 2006: „complete, which means that all land within a country should be included (without duplication), with increases in some areas balanced by decreases in others, recognizing the bio-physical stratification of land if needed …“
• Art. 16: From 2023, their emissions and removals covered by Article 2 of Regulation in accordance with the methodologies specified in Annex IIIa …
• Annex IIIa: Spatially-explicit land-use conversion data for the identification and tracking of land-use categories and conversions between land-use categories
Completeness of activity data
Approach 3 according to 2006 IPCC guidelines!
Completeness of activity data for CM and GM
„A prerequisite for any estimating/reporting of the emissions/removals due to CM and GM, even for Tier 1 estimations, …“ (Weiss et al. 2015)
Reporting under higher Tiers for CM and GM:
• complete land use and land-use change statistics
• spatially explicit data for the activities
• the sub-division of the land into different management types (stratification) and sub-categories
General issues related to CM & GM
• Consistency in activity data for period prior to 2006
• No available data for transition period before the base year (net-net accounting!)
• No information on management regimes explored until now (potential of LPIS!)
• There is no formal soil condition monitoring at country level
• NFI does not cover biomass monitoring on CM and GM areas
• emissions from CM are assumed to be underestimated
• Liming (Saturday paper!)
• Use of country-specific data on CSC from one year of grassland growth
• A default value of ABG biomass carbon stock at harvest for cropland (63 t C ha-1)
• CRF table 4 (III) Direct N2O emissions from N mineralization / immobilization
• CRF table 4 (IV).2 Nitrogen leaching and run-off
Major issues related to reporting
Making progress …
Decision 529/2013/EU
EU
MESPReporting of emissions
MAFFReporting of information
Targeted Research Projects
Methodology development
Public Tenders
Data collection
LPIS/ALUM system (2002- )
Improving the quality of activity data
LPIS/ALUM:- Land use- Digital vector layers- Polygons
Point sampling (1 x 1 km grid):- Land cover- Digital orthophotos- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2)
- Consistent activity data- Update on cca. every 3 years
Land use No. of sites
Arable land 22
Meadows and
pastures24
Extensive orchards 8
Intensive orchards 6
Vineyards 10
Total 70
Improving the quality of emission factors
Around 500-600 sites are assumed to be representative to determine country-specific (reference) soil C stocks, while 30-50 permanent agricultural experimental sites to determine/verify stock change factors and to allow for possible future modelling of soil organic carbon dynamics
SOC stocks from the pilot project
Land use Code
Arable land 1100
Vineyards 1211
Intensive orchards 1221
Extensive orchards 1222
Meadows and
pastures1300
79,4
69,8
64,494,5
97,7
Plan for 2017:
• Soil sampling on cca. 100 sites
• Inventory of woody above-ground biomass (cca. 700 sampling plots)
• Questionnaire on grazing land management (LPIS areas)
Improving the quality of emission factors
• renovation of Agricultural Act
• the proposal determines the responsibility for data collection needed for improved estimation of GHG emissions and removals in agriculture
• the proposal determines which data are to be collected
Improving the national legislation
Thank you!