Comprehensive mitigation assessment process (COMAP) - Description and instruction manual
In order to prepare policies and plans to reduce GHG emissions, national policy-makers need information on the costs and benefits of different mitigation options in addition to their carbon implications. Policy-makers must weigh the costs, benefits, and impacts of climate change mitigation and adaptation options, in the face of competition for limited resources. The policy goal for mitigation options in the land use sector is to identify which mix of options is likely to best achieve the desired forestry service and production objectives at the least cost, while attempting to maximize economic and social benefits, and minimize negative environmental and social impacts. Improved national-level cost estimates of response options in the land use sector can be generated by estimating the costs and benefits of different forest management practices appropriate for specific country conditions which can be undertaken within the constraint of land availability and its opportunity cost. These co st and land use estimates can be combined to develop cost curves, which would assist policy-makers in constructing policies and programs to implement forest responses.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office Biological and Environmental Research (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 840208
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL/PUB-3163; R&D Project: 673201; TRN: US200509%%935
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 9 Nov 2001
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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