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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Biological Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Trading Re-Visited
Autores: | van Kooten,   G. Cornelis.
Data: | 2008-10-15
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Carbon offset credits; Climate change; Duration of carbon sinks; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Resumo: | Under Kyoto, biological activities that sequester carbon can be used to create CO2 offset credits that could obviate the need for lifestyle-changing reductions in fossil fuel use. Credits are earned by storing carbon in terrestrial ecosystems and wood products, although CO2 emissions are also mitigated by delaying deforestation, which accounts for one-quarter of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, nonpermanent carbon offsets from biological activities are difficult to compare with each other and with emissions reduction because they differ in how long they prevent CO2 from entering the atmosphere. This is the duration problem; it results in uncertainty and makes it difficult to determine the legitimacy of biological activities in mitigating climate change. While there is not doubt that biological sink activities help mitigate climate change and should not be neglected, in this paper we demonstrate that these activities cannot be included in carbon trading schemes.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/44262
Relação: | European Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
Formato: | 11