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Agriculture and Land Use National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
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Quantifying the influence of human activity on greenhouse gas emissions and removals at a national scale is a challenge for countries engaged in development of climate change policy. Quantification is important for informing policy decisions and also required for signatory countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The goal of this project is to provide a software program that guides an inventory compiler through the process of estimating emissions and removals related to agricultural and forestry activities. Countries with the goal of mitigating emissions from agricultural and forestry activities need a reasonably accurate estimation of current emission trends, and an understanding of the influence of land use and management alternatives on future emissions. Our inventory software program is intended to support this need. The program has been developed through a capacity-building project for countries in Central America, which was funded by USAID and US-EPA. Developers at Colorado State University have designed the program to be consistent with guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), with the intention of making the inventory process more transparent and easier to implement. Please contact us if you interested in learning more about this program. |
