Science-based approach for credible accounting of mitigation in managed forests

Comparison of historical and projected harvest (a) and forest sink without harvested wood products (b) as included in the forest management reference level (FMRL) submitted under the KP by EU countries in 2011 (blue lines) vs. analyses based on recent country data (black lines: FAO and other country statistics for harvest in a), 2018 GHG inventories for the sink in ‘forest remaining forest’ (F–F) up to 2016 in b. The red line in b is the sum of EU countries’ FMRLs (average for 2013–2020). Since ‘forest management’ (FM) is reported under KP only after 2013, to have a longer time series in b we used F–F for 1990–2016 (from 2018 GHG inventories) as proxy for FM. Following [10], the sink is expressed as negative number, i.e. more negative means a greater sin