Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry - the IEA Bioenergy Task ...

4 IEA Bioenergy Task 25 Workshop, Joensuu, Finland: LULUCF: The Road to COP6SummaryConclusionsIn the whole EU• the area of the ARD lands 2 to 9 % of all forest area• trees on the ARD lands a sink, a source or neither• the sink or the source on the ARD lands at largest up to a few %of the carbon sink of trees in all forests and a few ‰ of the CO 2emissions• the carbon sink of trees in all forests 7 % of the CO 2 emissionsIn individual countries• where the carbon sink of all trees is small, much of it can be onthe AR lands• where the carbon sink of all trees is large, little of it is on the ARlandsThe carbon balance of trees on the ARD lands• the sink as large as the targeted emission reduction in a fewcountries, considerable source in a few others• Article 3.3 may be relevant in these few countries for themanagement of these lands, probably