think climate. think change.
Department of Climate Change
May 2001
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The Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO) was established as the world's first dedicated national greenhouse agency to drive Australia's progressive agenda on greenhouse response. Its tasks include providing the comprehensive framework and scientific services necessary to account to an internationally credible level for Australia's emissions reduction and sink enhancement activities connected with land-based sources and sinks - to develop a robust, rigorous and credible land-based National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS).
As about 30 per cent of Australia's greenhouse-gas emissions arise from the land-based sectors, the NCAS is critical to determining the role of sinks in Australia's emissions reduction efforts. The system will assist in developing an optimum greenhouse policy response and in fulfilling the reporting requirements of the Kyoto Protocol and any future international protocols, agreements or commitments.
