The KP
Supplement:Salient features2013 Revised Supplementary
Methods and Good PracticeGuidance Arising from theKyoto Protocol (KPSupplement)

The KP Supplement has 2 chapters andan Overview Chapter. It broadly maintains
the structure and general content of Chapter 4 in GPG-LULUCF, while incorporatingsome important changes as mandated by
Decision 2/CMP.7 and other COP/CMPdecisions.

The preparation of the KP Supplement
involved experts from around the world
with expertise in inventory compilation, theIPCC Guidelines and LULUCF including inforests, harvested wood products andwetlands. There were 65 Lead Authors
and 9 Review Editors as well as 6 Contributing Authors to add expertise on specifictopics.

The review process included worldwide
participation, with hundreds of experts
reviewing the accuracy and completenessof

thesupplementary

methodologicalguidance contained in the drafts. A total of4490 review comments from 119 expert
reviewers and 20 governments were received over three rounds of review.

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Background
In December 2011, the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) invited the IPCC toreview and, if necessary, update supplementary
methodologies

forestimating

anthropogenic

greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removAdoption/acceptance of the KP Supplement atthe 37th Session of IPCC, 14-18 October 2013
in Batumi, Georgia

The KP Supplement

als by sinks resulting from land use, land-use
change and forestry (LULUCF) activities underWork on the production of the KP Supplement
was carried out in 2012-13 over four LeadAuthor meetings and two rounds of reviews
followed by a round of written comments bygovernments. The IPCC Expert Review of theFirst Order Draft (FOD) took placefrom 7January - 3 February 2013. Authors prepared
the Second Order Draft (SOD) considering all

Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4, of the Kyoto Proto-

the comments received in the Expert Review.

col (KP), related to the annex to decision 2/CMP.7,

The Government and Expert Review of theon the basis of, inter alia, Chapter 4 of IPCC’s

SOD took place from 22 April - 2 June 2013.

2003 Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Authors produced the Final Draft of the KP

Use Change and Forestry (GPG-LULUCF). The

Supplement considering the comments re-

The 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods andIPCC at its 35

Session in Geneva, 6 – 9 June

ceived from governments and experts in thisGood Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto

2012 decided to produce the 2013 Revised Sup-round of review that was distributed to govern-Protocol (KP Supplement) provides supplementary

plementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance

ments for submission of written comments

methods and good practice guidance for estimat-

Arising from the Kyoto Protocol (KP Supplement)from 2 – 29 September 2013. The Overview

ing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by

by the revised target date of October 2013. In

Chapter of the KP Supplement was adopted

sources and removals by sinks resulting from land

June 2012, the IPCC invited nomination of experts

and the entire report was accepted at the 37thuse, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) ac-for consideration as Coordinating Lead Authors,

Session of IPCC held in Batumi, Georgia, 14-tivities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4, of theLead Authors and Review Editors to contribute to18 October 2013. The KP Supplement was

Kyoto Protocol for the second commitment period.

this work from governments and international or-published on the TFI website on 28 February

It revises and updates Chapter 4 of the Good

ganizations . The Task Force Bureau (TFB) of the2014.

Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use

IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas

Change and Forestry (GPG-LULUCF) which pro-Inventories (TFI) selected the Authors and Review

vides supplementary methods and good practice

Editors based on the nominations aiming for aguidance related to LULUCF activities based on

range of views, expertise and geographical repre-

the TSU of the IPCC TFI for a DVD or printed

the general greenhouse gas inventory guidance

sentation.

version.

thThe

KP Supplement is available for freedownload at the TFI website:

nggip.iges.or.jp/public/kpsg/. Please contact

provided in its other chapters and the rules governing the treatment of LULUCF activities in thefirst commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

www.ipcc-Work on the production of the KP Supplement was carried out in2012-13 over four Lead Author meetings and two rounds of reviews
followed by a round of written comments by governments.