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International Sequestration Mitigation Estimates
This section of the Web site focuses on national- or global-scale mitigation
analyses for carbon sequestration and other greenhouse gas reduction activities
in agriculture and forestry.
Mitigation analyses found in this section of the Web site and elsewhere
for the same countries and regions will likely vary due to differences
in underlying methods, activities, carbon pools, land base and timeframe
included in the analyses.
Some of the documents below are PowerPoint presentations. These documents
will open if a left-click is done on the link and can be closed by striking
the escape key on your keyboard.
EPA and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
have been coordinating the F7 Tropical Forestry Climate Change Research
Network of forest-sector analysts in these countries since the early
1990s. The F7 network has been identifying which forestry mitigation
options are the most important for individual developing
countries and local communities; how much sequestration and emissions
reductions can be achieved through these options; and what costs are
associated with these options. The graph below summarizes major potential
mitigation activities, regions, and costs for the F7 countries.This
work uses the COMAP model.
The following papers and presentations summarize this work. Results for
the individual F7 countries are available in the specific country papers:
- Sathaye, J., W. Makundi and K. Andrasko
(2001) Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in
Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania.
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
for Global Change, 6 (3-4): 185-211 (PDF, 185 pp., 207 KB,
About PDF)
. Available for personal use only through the kind permission of Kluwer
Academic Publishers; please contact Kluwer for any reproduction and/or
distribution.
- Sathaye,
J., W. Makundi and K. Andrasko (2001) Forestry mitigation potential
and costs: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines
and Tanzania. Presented at 2001 EPA/USDA Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse
Gas Modeling Forum. (Powerpoint, 27 pp., 565 KB)
- FORCLIMIT-India
is a cooperative project of Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF),
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Indian Council for Forestry
Research and Education (ICFRE), on the Indian side; and EPA and Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory from the U.S. The objectives of the FORCLIMIT-India
research network are to: improve assessment of mitigation opportunities
and costs for India, and for two states in detail; develop village-level
case studies of mitigation potential and issues; initiate dialog among
government, private, NGO, academic, and local stakeholders on technical
issues; and disseminate findings.
- N.H.
Ravindranath, P. Sudha, Sandhya Rao (2001) Forestry for sustainable
biomass production and carbon sequesteration in India, Mitigation and
Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 6 (3-4): 233-256.
Some presentations at the EPA-co-sponsored Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse
Gas Modeling Forum:
A variety of estimates of sequestration mitigation potential in the
forestry sector have been performed, using a wide range of analytic
methods, data, and assumptions. For these reasons, the estimates generally
are difficult to compare. Relatively few such analyses have been performed
for global or country-level agricultural sector carbon sequestration
potential. Some representative estimates are provided below:
- IPCC (2001)
Climate Change 2001: Mitigation.
Contribution of Working Group III to the Third Assessment Report of
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. B. Metz et al. (eds.),
Cambridge University Press.
- IPCC
(2000) Special Report on Land Use,
Land-Use Change, and Forestry, R.T. Watson et al. (eds.), Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press. Chapters 3 and
4 in particular contain mitigation estimates.
- Sedjo,
R., B. Sohngen and R. Mendelsohn (2001) Estimating Carbon Supply Curves
for Global Forests and Other Land Uses. (PDF, 34 pp., 121 KB, About
PDF)
- Niles,
J.O., S. Brown, J. Pretty, A. Ball and J. Fay (2001) Potential Carbon
Mitigation and Income in Developing Countries from Changes in Use and
Management of Agricultural and Forest Lands, Centre for Environment
and Society Occasional Paper, 2001-04, University of Essex. (PDF,
26 pp., 69 KB, About PDF)
- Winrock International
provides a wide range of documents on international carbon sequestration
and emission estimates, biomass measurement, monitoring, and project
evaluation.
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