Soil carbon sequestration and the CDM: Opportunities and challenges for Africa

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dc.contributorUNEP Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environmenten
dc.contributor.authorRingius, L.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:56:20Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:56:20Zen
dc.date.issued2002en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines soil carbon sequestration in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa as part of regional and global attempts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and the possibility that the development of greenhouse gas mitigation projects will offer local ancillary benefits. The paper documents the improvements in agricultural practices and land-use management in sub-Saharan Africa that could increase agricultural productivity and sequester soil carbon. During the first five-year commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, only afforestation and reforestation projects will be eligible for crediting under the Clean Development Mechanism, but soil carbon sequestration and broader sink activities could become eligible during subsequent commitment periods. However, very few cost estimates of soil carbon sequestration strategies exist, and available data are not readily comparable. It is uncertain how large amounts of carbon could be sequestered, and it is unclear how well site-specific studies represent wider areas. It is concluded that there presently is a need to launch long-term (>10 years) field experiments and demonstration and pilot projects for soil carbon sequestration in Africa. It will be important to monitor all environmental effects and carbon "costs" as well as estimate all economic benefits and costs of projects.en
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dc.identifier1455en
dc.identifier.citationClimatic Change 54: 471-495en
dc.identifier.issn0165-0009en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66164en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishersen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishersen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCarbon sequestrationen
dc.subjectSoilen
dc.subjectReforestationen
dc.subjectAfforestationen
dc.subjectLand use managementen
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africaen
dc.subjectKyoto Protocolen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleSoil carbon sequestration and the CDM: Opportunities and challenges for Africaen
dc.typeAbstracten
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