Study on a Practical Forest Use Plan as a Sink measure under Kyoto Protocol

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This report addresses two issues. The first issue compares the approaches of the governmental of Japan, Canada, and the European Union member countries toward using forest carbon sinks to meet their respective Kyoto carbon reduction targets for the first compliance period 2008-2012. This paper examines and compares the approach of the governments of Japan, Canada and the European Union(EU) with respect to carbon sinks for meeting their respective Kyoto Protocol(KP) carbon reduction targets. The study examines various proposed government policies to stimulate the forest sector to achieve carbon sequestration by promoting afforestation, reforestation and deforestation(ARD) and forest management under Articles 3.3 and 3.4 of the KP. It also touches on the establishment of a reporting system for IPCC (UNFCCC) Inventory report under Article 5. In the second issue this report begins a speculation of the prospective ways that biological and forest carbon might be used to sequester carbon beyond the Kyoto compliance period 2008-2012. In the post Kyoto period approaches to addressing carbon sinks will need to be revisited. Three ranges of alternatives are possible. These are the KP system can continue, the system can be simplified, or new modalities can be developed. Also, there is the question of how once register Kyoto forests will be treated in the post Kyoto period. Although COP 9 indicated that once modified the forest would be modified indefinitely. However, it is not clear how binding the provisions of the current KP will be on activity and agreements in the post Kyoto period, which, after all. will almost surely be negotiated de novo. Obvious considerations for a 2^<nd> KP could involve a rethinking of both Articles 3.3 and 3.4.