Overview of mitigation policies and measures in the forestry sector
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)
In this paper the author addresses questions on how the forestry sector can make a contribution to the general problem of greenhouse gases in the environment. Primarily this is in the form of carbon conservation and sequestering. There is a potential land area for conservation and sequestration estimated to be 700 Mha. The total carbon that could be sequestered and conserved globally by 2050 on this land is 60 - 87 GtC. Slowing deforestation, assisting regeneration, forestation and agroforestry are the primary mitigation measures for carbon conservation and sequestration. For long term success, enforcement to halt deforestation has to be accompained by economic and/or other benefits to the deforesters that equal or exceed their current remuneration. Making plantations a significant fuel for utility electricity generation will require higher biomass yields and thermal efficiency matching that of conventional plants. Significant reduction of global carbon emissions requires national governments to institute measures that provide local, national, economic and other benefits while conserving and sequestering carbon.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 484429
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL--39686; CONF-9611151--; ON: DE97003750
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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