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IAMs with the complex dynamic structure of forests and forest supply is a daunting intertemporal task. This study examines … the market for woody biomass by combining the integrated assessment model WITCH with the global dynamic forestry model GTM … biomass program. Forest area will expand by 70-95% leading to increased storage of 685-1,279 GtCO2 in forest by 2100. Overall …
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Nowadays, as stressed by important strategic documents like for instance the 2009 EU White Paper on Adaptation or the recent 2009 “Copenhagen Accord”, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to combat climate change. This paper enriches the rapidly...
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Agricultural and forestry activities cover the majority of the EU territory: in particular agriculture is the main lad … between 30 and 60 %, whereas forestry is the second. The role of agriculture as both a source of and as a sink of greenhouse … conditions in Europe. The effectiveness of the policy measures adopted so far in the agro-forestry sector to meet the Kyoto …
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forestry practices. Results show that including forest carbon in the compliance strategy decreases European policy costs and … mitigation potential if compared with other forest biomes around the world. A much higher forest mitigation would require other … forestry sector within climate mitigation. Improvements on database and modelling frameworks allow accounting for land …
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a Computable General Equilibrium framework, the ICES model, it is inferred how forest carbon sequestration fits within … Sohngen (2005), which describe the average annual cost of sequestration for selected world regions. Results show that …
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Deforestation is a major source of CO2 emissions, accounting for around 17% of total annual anthropogenic carbon release. While the cost estimates of reducing deforestation rates vary considerably depending on model assumptions, it is widely accepted that emissions reductions from avoided...
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affecting agriculture and forestry: they are strongly dependent on climate phenomena, but also contribute to climate evolution … forestry sectors. The specific focus is on European Countries. Different methodological approaches, research questions … addressed and results are examined. The main finding is that agriculture and forestry can potentially provide GHG reduction at a …
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security policy is integrated with optimal climate change and air pollution policy, the world’s oil reserves will not be …
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Bio-energy has the potential to be a key mitigation option if combined with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS …
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The latest round of international negotiations in Copenhagen led to a set of commitments on emission reductions which are unlikely to stabilise global warming below or around 2°C. As a consequence, in the absence of additional ambitious policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address...
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