The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) in response to a request from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The report examines the global carbon cycle and how different land use and forestry activities affect carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions. It also looks at future carbon uptake and emissions based on different definitional scenarios and carbon accounting strategies linked to the Kyoto Protocol. The report discusses the scientific and technical aspects of carbon sequestration in agricultural and forestry sectors, as well as the implications of land use, land-use change, and forestry activities on environmental and socioeconomic issues, conservation, and sustainable resource management. It also identifies questions that Parties to the Protocol may wish to consider regarding definitions and accounting rules. The report highlights the importance of defining terms such as forests, afforestation, reforestation, and deforestation clearly to ensure effective sequestration strategies are planned and implemented. It also addresses the challenges of measuring and monitoring changes in carbon stocks in Annex I and non-Annex I countries, the applicability of the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, and the implications of Articles 3.3 and 3.4. The report also estimates potential carbon yields from ARD and additional activities by evaluating changes in carbon stocks for different ecosystems, current land area converted per year, and total land available for two different time periods. It provides project experience for several projects, primarily in tropical countries. The report emphasizes the need for mutually acceptable definitions to ensure that effective sequestration strategies are planned and implemented. It also addresses the challenges of distinguishing between direct and indirect human-induced activities and natural environmental variability that affects carbon uptake and release. The report also discusses the importance of transparency and verifiability in measuring changes in carbon stocks and flows over time. The report concludes that the SR-LULUCF is written with a variety of questions in mind that examine the scientific and technical aspects of carbon sequestration in agricultural and forestry sectors as well as the implications of land use, land-use change, and forestry activities on environmental and socioeconomic issues, conservation, and sustainable resource management and development issues.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) in response to a request from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The report examines the global carbon cycle and how different land use and forestry activities affect carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions. It also looks at future carbon uptake and emissions based on different definitional scenarios and carbon accounting strategies linked to the Kyoto Protocol. The report discusses the scientific and technical aspects of carbon sequestration in agricultural and forestry sectors, as well as the implications of land use, land-use change, and forestry activities on environmental and socioeconomic issues, conservation, and sustainable resource management. It also identifies questions that Parties to the Protocol may wish to consider regarding definitions and accounting rules. The report highlights the importance of defining terms such as forests, afforestation, reforestation, and deforestation clearly to ensure effective sequestration strategies are planned and implemented. It also addresses the challenges of measuring and monitoring changes in carbon stocks in Annex I and non-Annex I countries, the applicability of the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, and the implications of Articles 3.3 and 3.4. The report also estimates potential carbon yields from ARD and additional activities by evaluating changes in carbon stocks for different ecosystems, current land area converted per year, and total land available for two different time periods. It provides project experience for several projects, primarily in tropical countries. The report emphasizes the need for mutually acceptable definitions to ensure that effective sequestration strategies are planned and implemented. It also addresses the challenges of distinguishing between direct and indirect human-induced activities and natural environmental variability that affects carbon uptake and release. The report also discusses the importance of transparency and verifiability in measuring changes in carbon stocks and flows over time. The report concludes that the SR-LULUCF is written with a variety of questions in mind that examine the scientific and technical aspects of carbon sequestration in agricultural and forestry sectors as well as the implications of land use, land-use change, and forestry activities on environmental and socioeconomic issues, conservation, and sustainable resource management and development issues.