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From: Wildfire national carbon accounting: how natural and anthropogenic landscape fires emissions are treated in the 2020 Australian government greenhouse gas accounts report to the UNFCCC

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Conceptual model of how landscape fire is represented in Australian Government greenhouse gas accounts reported to the UNFCCC. The report presents GHG emissions and removals across five land categories (Forest Land, Cropland, Grassland, Wetland, Settlements that are classified as being under anthropogenic management). It excludes unproductive, arid Other Lands category. Fire is understood to occur in all fire management lands. It is assumed carbon emissions are balanced by regrowth over time, albeit varying spatially, temporally, and among vegetation types. The report also includes consideration of wood harvests, post-fire salvage logging, and fuelwood collection in native and non-native plantations. Fire can be used in activities that convert one land category to another category (resulting in carbon losses, black arrows), for example clearing of forest, noting some of these deforestation emissions can be sequestered by afforestation or reforestation (green arrows)

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Carbon Balance and Management

ISSN: 1750-0680

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