Procedures for Expanding from Timber Volume to Carbon Stocks of Forests in MASCAREF Test Countries.

The aim of this report is to summarize the current use and availability of allometric function and factors used in five countries of sub-contracted partners of the MASCAREF project. They include Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia. For these countries, information on biomass parameters adopted in National inventory reports is provided, together with other available and potentially applicable resources. It is shown that the available data and its utilization in emission inventory largely differ among the countries reflecting the country specific conditions. Overall, it is evident that a further improvement in reporting CO2 emissions and removals in forestry can be expected once the results of statistical forest inventories become more readily available and countries would be able to adopt appropriate tree biomass and carbon estimation procedures.