Avoided deforestation with sustainable benefits: reducing carbon emmissions from deforestation and land degradation
Although the clean development mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol makes some allowance for afforestation and reforestation, it has so far excluded “avoided deforestation”—for good rea- sons. However, the global climate change community increasingly recognizes that it must address the challenge of reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). Besides the obvious magnitude of the potential for REDD to reduce climate change, the current situation is cre- ating perverse incentives and disincentives affecting other dimensions of climate change mitigation. The current Inter- governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) good prac- tice guidelines for national greenhouse gas (GHG) invento- ries provide a coherent framework for dealing with aboveground as well as belowground carbon effects of agri- culture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU).
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Authors
Swallow B M,Verchot L,Kasyoki J M,van Noordwijk, M.
Publication year
2022
