The IPCC method requires:

• Total area of savanna and the fraction burned annually, or the total area of savanna burned annually;
• Aboveground biomass density and the fraction burned;
• A value for the living and dead fractions of aboveground biomass;
• Values for the oxidized fraction after burning;
• Carbon content of living and dead biomass;
• The nitrogen/carbon released from savanna burning.

The IPCC Good Practice Guidance refers to the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for this category. Additional information is provided in Appendix 4A.1 of the IPCC Good Practice Guidance. This appendix describes some of the details of a possible future revision of the methodology. Note, however, that this method is not considered as good practice.