FCCC/SBSTA/2003/8

Methodological issues. Land use, land-use change and forestry: definitions and modalities for including afforestation and reforestation activities under Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol. Workshop on definitions and modalities for including afforestation and reforestation project activities under Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol in the first commitment period. Note by the Chair of the SBSTA.

The secretariat was requested to organize a workshop to facilitate an exchange of views on issues relating to modalities for including afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism (CDM) in the first commitment period. The workshop took place in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, from 12 to 14 February 2003. Participants at the workshop exchanged views on non-permanence, baselines, additionality and leakage, socio-economic and environmental impacts, including impacts on biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and cross-cutting and additional issues. The SBSTA may wish to take note of the information contained in this report

Item 4 (d) of the provisional agenda

Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), Eighteenth session, 4-13 June 2003, Bonn, Germany

workshop documents

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