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Table 2 The treatment of forest, harvesting and HWP in the INDCs

From: Assessing the contribution of harvested wood products under greenhouse gas estimation: accounting under the Paris Agreement and the potential for double-counting among the choice of approaches

INDC includes forest

Forest contribution is expressed as GHG

All wood harvesting is considered/could be included

HWP contribution is considered/could be estimated

Number of countries

The share of wood harvesting volume in 2017 based on FASTAT (%)

Countries

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

51

60.3

Case A: EU countries (including Croatia, Cyprus, Malta), Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Andorra, Brazil, Brunei, Burundi, Chad, Columbia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, DPR Korea, DRC, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Grenada, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mali, Mexico, Namibia, Niger, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, R-Moldova, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Solomon Island, South Africa, Tajikistan, Togo, Uganda, Tanzania, Vietnam, Zambia

No

14

2.2

Case B: Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cambodia, Guinea, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Monaco, Paraguay, Peru, Timor

No

28

18.3

Case C: Algeria, Armenia, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Panama, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tunisia, Uruguay, Venezuela

No

19

14.0

Case D: Bhutan, Bolivia, Carbo Verde, Chili, China, El Salvador, Eritrea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Lao, Lesotho, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nepal, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname

No

53

5.0

Case E: Afghanistan, Albania, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Fiji, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Kiribati, Kuwait, Liberia, Maldives, Micronesia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nauru, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Qatar, South Korea, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, St. Lucia, St Vincent Grenadine, Samoa, Sao Tome Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, St. Kitts and Nevis, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, UAE, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zimbabwe

No INDC submission

3

0.2

Case F: Libya, Nicaragua, Syrian Arab Republic