Australia’s National Carbon Accounting System

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Australia’sNational CarbonAccounting SystemDr Gary RichardsDirector and Principal Scientist

national carbon accounting system

Government Commitment The Australian Government has committedto a 10 year, 3 phase, 35M program for anational, comprehensive (all pools, gasesand processes) and integrated (massbalance, process driven) capability to:––––account for all land based emissions (C & N)singular multi-scale (bottom-up) project to nationalsub-hectare monthly reportingprovide projections and scenario capabilitynational carbon accounting system

Ten Year 3 Stage Plan Phase 1 (1998-2002)– Establish comprehensive framework– Provide Land Use Change 1990 baseline – primarily CO2 Transitional (2002-2004)– Consolidate Phase 1– Development Activities for Phase 2 (particularly n-cycle) Phase 2 (2004-2008)– Develop comprehensive capability (all pools, gases and activities)– Public tools and data disseminationnational carbon accounting system

Key Characteristics Centralised and integrated national programs tosupport a spatially based, mass balance processmodel (FullCAM)– Based around CO2Fix, RothC, Gendec, Century, 3PG, Gorcam,Boundary Line, Palisade @Risk Founded on key national datasets––––13 Landsat coverages 1972-2004Monthly climate surfacesPhysical inventoriesLand management, land use datanational carbon accounting system

Implementation Critical mass and coordination– Remote sensing at 20% of benchmark costs– Structured programs for verification, continuous improvement anduncertainty management Systems of relationships for data and humanresources Focus on extending applications and thereforepartnerships Public accessibility to support individual actionnational carbon accounting system

Barriers Data availabilityModel capabilitySystems and business modelsSkills – technical and administrativeGovernance issues – largely around whole ofgovernment support and usagenational carbon accounting system

National Carbon AccountingSystem – the processnational carbon accounting system

Time Series Change (02 backdrop)national carbon accounting system

Forest Conversion1995conversionnational carbon accounting system2000

Resource Inventory (eg SoilCarbon)Initial Soil Cinventory fromavailable datanational carbon accounting system

Climate (eg Rainfall)national carbon accounting system

Average Temperaturenational carbon accounting system

NDVICloudHighLownational carbon accounting system

Model subroutines (eg ForestProductivity Index)national carbon accounting system

Land Use Currently by regional survey of agriculturaland forestry management practices –mapped to soil types Proposed move from regional survey tospatially relevant ‘mapping’ using historic(remote sensing) AVHRR and currentMODIS datanational carbon accounting system

Land Use & Managementnational carbon accounting system

FullCAM Modelnational carbon accounting system

Carbon Stock Change Outputnational carbon accounting system

Verification Principles Physically measurableTransparent and visibleContribute to continuous improvementProgressively reduce uncertaintyProvide input to sensitivity analysisTop-down & bottom-upnational carbon accounting system

Remote Sensing - VerificationRecent clearingnational carbon accounting system

Biomass Verificationnational carbon accounting system

Soil Model Verificationnational carbon accounting system

Current Developments a non-CO2 national account coupled to current carbonaccounts provide a publicly available carbon accounting toolboxrepresenting full NCAS capability further develop the Image Viewer product as the primaryvehicle for general dissemination of NCAS data; andprovide ready access to the NCAS data library integrate carbon accounting and economic scenarios toprovide a sound biophysical and economic basis forgreenhouse emissions projections review, maintain and enhance system hardware andsoftware capability and systematize and catalogue therecording and access to data holdingsnational carbon accounting system

Product Releases Base natural resource and satellite data viaGeoscience AustraliaIn 2005 (March): –NCAT –FullCAM model and webserver and database access to the NCASdata holdingsNCAS Technical support documentation in a searchable formatImage Viewer vers. 2.0 13 time series of satellite data 1972-2004Select spatial dataRegionalised statistics (natural resource and economic)national carbon accounting system

Australia’s National Carbon Accounting System Dr Gary Richards Director and Principal Scientist. national carbon accounting system. national carbon accounting system Government Commitment The Australian Government has committed to a 10 year, 3 phase, 35M program for a

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