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Department of Climate Change
July 2003
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Australia's National Carbon Accounting System provides a complete accounting capability for sources and sinks of greenhouse gases from Australian land based systems. The system underpins National Greenhouse Gas Inventory reporting, and provides a basis for emissions projections to assess progress towards meeting Australia's emissions reduction target.
Land based sources and sinks form a major part of Australia's emissions profile - around 30% of Australia's human - induced greenhouse gas emissions come from activities like cropping, grazing, land clearing and forestry. Accurate data are needed to underpin policies for greenhouse and natural resource management.
Some key questions asked of the National Carbon Accounting System are:
