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Acronyms, links and references

Acronym	Meaning and link
CFCA	Canadian Forest Carbon Accounting
CP1	Commitment Period 1 (2008-2012) of Kyoto Protocol
DOC	Department of Conservation
ETS	Emissions Trading Scheme
FAO	Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations; relevant here is the Montreal Process
GPG	Good Practice Guidance
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Kyoto	[A city in Japan, where the Kyoto Protocol was signed] Article 3.3 is of particular relevance to LUCAS
LCDB	Land Cover Data Base
LiDAR	Light Detection and Ranging, sometimes called Laser Scanning
LUCAS	Land Use and Carbon Analysis System
LULUCF	Land Use and Land Use Change and Forestry
MAF	Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
MED	Ministry of Economic Development
MfE	Ministry for the Environment
MoT	Ministry of Transport
NCAS	National Carbon Accounting System (Australia)
PFSI	Permanent Forest Sinks Initiative
Soil CMS	Soil Carbon Monitoring System
Treasury	The Treasury New Zealand
SPOT	Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre
UNFCCC	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Carbon pools

definitions of carbon pools are tabled on a separate page

Glossary

refer to New Zealand Climate Change Solutions glossary page

References cited

Davis M, Wilde RH, Garrett L, Oliver G 2004, New Zealand Carbon Monitoring System Soil Data Collection Manual. Wellington, Ministry for the Environment.

IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 2003, Chapter 3 LUCF Sector Good Practice Guidance, in: Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry, Edited by: J Penman, M Gytarsky, T Hiraishi, T Krug, D Kruger, R Pipatti, L Buendia, K Miwa, T Ngara, K Tanabe and F Wagner, IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme, Published by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) for the IPCC, http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gpglulucf/gpglulucf.htm

Lawton M, Barton J 2002. Framework Report on the Development of the National Carbon Monitoring System (PDF 290 KB); also on LUCAS site in HTML format.

Ministry for the Environment 1999, International Review of New Zealand's Carbon Monitoring project (PDF 235 KB).

Ministry for the Environment 2009, New Zealand’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2007.

Payton I J, Newell CL, Beets PN 2004. New Zealand carbon monitoring system indigenous forest and shrubland data collection manual (PDF 2.0 MB). Christchurch, Caxton Press for New Zealand Climate Change Office, Ministry for the Environment. 68 p.

Tate KR, Wilde RH, Giltrap DJ, Baisden WT, Saggar S, Trustrum NA, Scott NA, Barton JP 2005. Soil organic carbon stocks and flows in New Zealand: system development, measurement and modelling, Canadian Journal of Soil Science 85: 481-491 http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/aic-journals/2005ab/cjss05/special05/cjss04-082.html

Wilde RH, Davis M, Tate KR, Giltrap DJ 2004. Testing the representativeness of soil carbon data held in databases underpinning the New Zealand Soil Carbon Monitoring System. Supersoil 2004: Proceedings of the 3rd Australian New Zealand Soils Conference, University of Sydney, Australia, 5 – 9 December 2004, 4 p. http://www.regional.org.au/au/asssi/supersoil2004/s10/poster/1438_wildeh.htm

Last updated: 3 August 2009