1. Introduction
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its fifteenth session, invited Parties to submit, by 15 January 2003, their views on the implications of harvested wood products accounting, including views on different approaches and methodologies, for consideration at its eighteenth session. It requested the secretariat to prepare, based on submissions from Parties, a technical paper on harvested wood products accounting, taking into account socio-economic and environmental impacts, including impacts on developing countries, for consideration at its nineteenth session.
FCCC/SBSTA/2001/MISC.1 contained submissions from Parties on "Issues related to emissions from forest harvesting and wood products". Even though the scope was wider than the current submissions, many submissions did relate primarily to the wood products component, with little reference to emissions from forest harvesting.
This report primarily addresses aspects of the ten submissions received in 2003 (available in FCCC/SBSTA/2003/MISC.1 and FCCC/SBSTA/2003/MISC.1/Add.1) from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark (on behalf of European Community), Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Samoa (on behalf of Alliance of Small Island States), USA and Uruguay. It highlights key issues surrounding HWP accounting and discusses the position of Parties expressed in their submissions.
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