A Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) for the Evaluation of Forestry Mitigation Options
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Carbon emissions from land-use change in the tropics contribute significantly to the global greenhouse gas emissions. The evaluation of carbon flows from land-use change and the associated socioeconomic impacts are just beginning for the tropical countries. This paper presents a comprehensive mitigation assessment process (COMAP) for the evaluation of forest sector mitigation options COMAP is a bottom-up methodological framework which was used in the assessment of carbon sequestration potential by the F7 countries and is recommended in the IPCC 1995 Working Group II chapter. COMAP helps to account for carbon and monetary flows and to develop scenarios and cost-effectiveness indicators of alternative mitigation options. The COMAP calculation method is coded in a spreadsheet format.
- Research Organization:
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director, Office of Science (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 809882
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL--49127; B& R 400408000
- Journal Information:
- Biomass and Bioenergy, Journal Name: Biomass and Bioenergy Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 8; ISSN BMSBEO; ISSN 0961-9534
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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