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Carbon accounting and the climate politics of forestry
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- Ellison, David (författare)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Umeå universitet,Kulturgeografiska institutionen,Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary,Institutionen för skoglig resurshushållning,Department of Forest Resource Management
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- Lundblad, Mattias (författare)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för mark och miljö,Department of Soil and Environment
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- Petersson, Hans (författare)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för skoglig resurshushållning,Department of Forest Resource Management
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- Elsevier, 2011
- 2011
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Environmental Science and Policy. - : Elsevier. - 1462-9011 .- 1873-6416. ; 14:8, s. 1062-1078
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Abstract
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- Many proposals have been made for the more successful inclusion of LULUCF (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry) in the Kyoto framework. Though the positions of individual states or the goal of avoided deforestation guide many approaches, our model sets cost-effective strategies for climate change mitigation and the efficient and balanced use of forest resources at its center. Current approaches to forest resource-based carbon accounting consider only a fraction of its potential and fail to adequately mobilize the LULUCF sector for the successful stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations. The presence of a significantly large "incentive gap" justifies the urgency of reforming the current LULUCF carbon accounting framework. In addition to significantly broadening the scope of carbon pools accounted under LULUCF, we recommend paying far greater attention to the troika of competing but potentially compatible interests surrounding the promotion of standing forests (in particular for the purposes of carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection and ecosystem promotion/preservation), harvested wood products (HWP) and bioenergy use. The successful balancing of competing interests, the enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness and the balanced use of forest resources require an accounting mechanism that weighs and rewards each component according to its real climate mitigation potential. Further, our data suggest the benefits of such a broadly based carbon accounting strategy and the inclusion of LULUCF in national and international accounting and emission trading mechanisms far outweigh potential disadvantages. Political arguments suggesting countries could take advantage of LULUCF accounting to reduce their commitments are not supported by the evidence we present. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Social och ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Social and Economic Geography (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Annan lantbruksvetenskap -- Förnyelsebar bioenergi (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Other Agricultural Sciences -- Renewable Bioenergy Research (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Kyoto Protocol
- Carbon accounting
- LULUCF
- HWP
- Bioenergy
- Climate change mitigation
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