Land-use change in Australia and the Kyoto Protocol (original) (raw)

Abstract

In the dying hours of the Kyoto Climate Change Conference, the negotiators agreed to the insertion of the`Australia clause' in Article 3.7. The clause permits countries for which land-use change and forestry are a net source of greenhouse gas emissions to include net emissions from land-use change in their 1990 base year for the purpose of calculating assigned amounts or targets for the commitment period 2008±2010.

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