Commitment Period
The period of time in a regulatory greenhouse gas mitigation scheme during which countries are required to reduce emissions by a specific amount. The five-year Kyoto Protocol Commitment Period is scheduled to run from calendar year 2008 to calendar year-end 2012 ("First Commitment Period").
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If emissions from harvesting during a commitment period are counted, then during the first and subsequent commitment periods a net debit could arise from a managed forest estate that is approximately in carbon balance.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2010 (http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/sres/land_use/004.htm)
