Greenhouse Gas Inventory (GHGI)

Switzerland prepares annually a greenhouse gas inventory for reporting under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. The Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry sector of the Swiss inventory includes, inter alia, data for the forest sector, encompassing carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in above- and belowground living and dead biomass and in the soil. On behalf of the Federal Office for the Environment, the WSL research group Resource Analysis prepares annually data on the carbon balance of the Swiss forest and carries out updates and, if necessary, improvements of the methodology based on expert reviews, new data and new guidelines. Carbon stocks in living biomass, and changes due to growth, harvest and mortality are derived from current national forest inventory data. Carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in dead wood, litter, and forest soil are estimated with the Yasso07 model.

Project details

Project duration

2011 - 2019

FURTHER INFORMATION

Links

further information on the Swiss Greenhouse Gas Inventory:www.climatereporting.ch

further information on the Swiss National Forest Inventory: lfi.ch

Publications

Didion, M., V. Blujdea, G. Grassi, L. Hernández, R. Jandl, K. Kriiska, A. Lehtonen, and L. Saint-André. 2016. Models for reporting forest litter and soil C pools in national greenhouse gas inventories: methodological considerations and requirements. Carbon Management 7:79-92.

Didion, M., B. Frey, N. Rogiers, and E. Thürig. 2014. Validating tree litter decomposition in the Yasso07 carbon model. Ecological Modelling 291:58-68.

FOEN (Federal Office for the Environment). 2017. Switzerland’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2015. National Inventory Report including reporting elements under the Kyoto Protocol. Submission of April 2017 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and under the Kyoto Protocol. Federal Office for the Environment, Bern. avl. online at www.bafu.admin.ch/climatereporting.

Hernández, L., R. Jandl, V. N. B. Blujdea, A. Lehtonen, K. Kriiska, I. Alberdi, V. Adermann, I. Cañellas, G. Marin, D. Moreno-Fernández, I. Ostonen, M. Varik, and M. Didion. 2017. Towards complete and harmonized assessment of soil carbon stocks and balance in forests: The ability of the Yasso07 model across a wide gradient of climatic and forest conditions in Europe. Science of The Total Environment 599–600:1171-1180.