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Department of Climate Change
August 2003
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Land Use Change emissions constitute a significant component of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions profile. This report draws on the resource inventories, field studies, modelling and extensive multi-temporal remote sensing methods developed and assembled by the NCAS program to estimate Australia's Land Use Change emissions from 1988-2001.
The fact sheet summaries CO2-equivalent emissions for Land Use Change on a National and on an Australian State and Territory basis, with total emissions from all carbon pools (below- and above-ground biomass, soil carbon and litter) from 1988-2001 accounted for. Annual rates of forest conversion and reclearing are presented for each State and Territory, along with a breakdown of the CO2 emissions from Land Use Change by soil type and vegetation type.
