Latvia's National Forestry Accounting Plan and Proposed Forest Reference Level 2021-2025
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Abstract
The Latvia's National Forestry Accounting Plan and Proposed Forest Reference Level 2021-2025 (NFAP) is a sectoral plan of Latvia. Its main objective is to support the implementation of the Regulation 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry (further in the text –LULUCF Regulation 2018/841) in the 2030 climate and energy framework, and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 and Decision No 529/2013/EU.
The structure of Latvia’s NFAP is based on the Annex IV of the LULUCF Regulation 2018/841 Latvia’s NFAP takes account unbalanced age structure of forest with the aim of maintaining or strengthening long-term carbon sink. The projected future sink is based on an extrapolation of forest management practices and intensity from a reference period (2000-2009). Latvia's Forest Reference Level (FRL) takes in account the future impact of dynamic age-related forest characteristics in order to avoid unduly constraining the forest management intensity as a core element of sustainable forest management practice, with the aim of maintaining or strengthening long-term carbon sinks.
Further, the document provides for balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of GHG in the second half of this century; approaches applied to guarantee that emissions and removals resulting from biomass use are properly accounted; inclusion of the carbon pool of harvested wood products; a constant ratio between solid and energy use of forest biomass as documented in the period from 2000 to 2009; contribution to the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of natural resources; integrity with the national projections of anthropogenic GHG emissions by sources and removals by sinks reported under Regulation (EU) No 525/2013; integrity of applied models with the historical data from the national GHG inventory; forest thinning; early tending; pre commercial thinning; commercial thinning; final felling; sanitary felling; forest reference level and detailed description of the development of the carbon pools; forest management activities under ‘business as usual’; forest regeneration; thinning of forest stand; consistency between the forest reference level and the latest national inventory report; projections of future climate conditions; and calculated carbon pools and greenhouse gases for the forest reference level.
The structure of Latvia’s NFAP is based on the Annex IV of the LULUCF Regulation 2018/841 Latvia’s NFAP takes account unbalanced age structure of forest with the aim of maintaining or strengthening long-term carbon sink. The projected future sink is based on an extrapolation of forest management practices and intensity from a reference period (2000-2009). Latvia's Forest Reference Level (FRL) takes in account the future impact of dynamic age-related forest characteristics in order to avoid unduly constraining the forest management intensity as a core element of sustainable forest management practice, with the aim of maintaining or strengthening long-term carbon sinks.
Further, the document provides for balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of GHG in the second half of this century; approaches applied to guarantee that emissions and removals resulting from biomass use are properly accounted; inclusion of the carbon pool of harvested wood products; a constant ratio between solid and energy use of forest biomass as documented in the period from 2000 to 2009; contribution to the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of natural resources; integrity with the national projections of anthropogenic GHG emissions by sources and removals by sinks reported under Regulation (EU) No 525/2013; integrity of applied models with the historical data from the national GHG inventory; forest thinning; early tending; pre commercial thinning; commercial thinning; final felling; sanitary felling; forest reference level and detailed description of the development of the carbon pools; forest management activities under ‘business as usual’; forest regeneration; thinning of forest stand; consistency between the forest reference level and the latest national inventory report; projections of future climate conditions; and calculated carbon pools and greenhouse gases for the forest reference level.
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2021-2025
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No
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English
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No