scholarly journals Reversals of Reforestation Across Latin America Limit Climate Mitigation Potential of Tropical Forests

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi B. Schwartz ◽  
T. Mitchell Aide ◽  
Jordan Graesser ◽  
H. Ricardo Grau ◽  
María Uriarte
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Potential

On the climate change mitigation potential of CO2 conversion to fuels

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2491-2499 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Carlos Abanades ◽  
Edward S. Rubin ◽  
Marco Mazzotti ◽  
Howard J. Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Liquid Fuels ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Co2 Conversion ◽  
Mitigation Potential ◽  
Alternative Systems ◽  
Change Mitigation

Proposed utilization schemes producing liquid fuels from captured CO2 offer fewer climate mitigation benefits at higher costs than alternative systems.

scholarly journals Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. eaax2546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean L. Maxwell ◽  
Tom Evans ◽  
James E. M. Watson ◽  
Alexandra Morel ◽  
Hedley Grantham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Selective Logging ◽  
Carbon Accounting ◽  
Carbon Equivalent ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
International Climate Policy ◽  
Global Land ◽  
International Climate

Intact tropical forests, free from substantial anthropogenic influence, store and sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon but are currently neglected in international climate policy. We show that between 2000 and 2013, direct clearance of intact tropical forest areas accounted for 3.2% of gross carbon emissions from all deforestation across the pantropics. However, full carbon accounting requires the consideration of forgone carbon sequestration, selective logging, edge effects, and defaunation. When these factors were considered, the net carbon impact resulting from intact tropical forest loss between 2000 and 2013 increased by a factor of 6 (626%), from 0.34 (0.37 to 0.21) to 2.12 (2.85 to 1.00) petagrams of carbon (equivalent to approximately 2 years of global land use change emissions). The climate mitigation value of conserving the 549 million ha of tropical forest that remains intact is therefore significant but will soon dwindle if their rate of loss continues to accelerate.

scholarly journals Energy-Water-Land Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Perspective from the Paris Agreement Climate Mitigation Pledges

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia R. Santos Da Silva ◽  
Haewon C. McJeon ◽  
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm ◽  
Raul Muñoz Castillo ◽  
Leon Clarke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Willingness to Pay for Crowdfunding Local Agricultural Climate Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9227
Author(s):  
Per Espen Stoknes ◽  
Olav B. Soldal ◽  
Sissel Hansen ◽  
Ingvar Kvande ◽  
Sylvia Weddegjerde Skjelderup
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Animal Manure ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Mitigation Potential ◽  
Funding Mechanism ◽  
Mitigation Projects

The recent rise in climate concern among citizens worldwide is coinciding with a rising interest in agricultural climate solutions. The future scaling-up of these solutions, however, requires more knowledge about the mitigation potential, costs and financing options, including crowdfunding (CF). Our objective is to explore the driving factors behind the public’s willingness to pay for crowdfunded climate mitigation projects at the farm level. In this study, four mitigation options from the perspective of farmers were identified: solar panels on the barn roof, biogas from animal manure, drag hoses for improved manure dispersal, and the addition of biochar to soils. The study investigates the optimal characteristics of crowdfunding campaigns to finance such mitigation measures. The most influential factors on the respondents’ WTP is neither climate concern nor proximity, but instead the knowledge regarding CF, combined with how comprehensible and salient the suggested measure is. The main implications are that future projects that aim to achieve broad participation in CF campaigns need to communicate well, to improve both public knowledge of the funding mechanism (CF) itself and the comprehensibility and salience of the agricultural measure.

scholarly journals Following the Leaders? How to Restore Progress in Global Climate Governance

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua W. Busby ◽  
Johannes Urpelainen
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
Mitigation Potential ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Feasible Action

The Paris Agreement is in trouble. Here we assess the potential for climate leaders to bring the global climate regime back on track by developing a strategic understanding of followership. In other words, leaders need to know how to encourage other actors to follow them. We develop a typology of follower types—Enthusiasts, Pliables, Reluctants, and Hard Nuts—distinguished based on motivation and capacity. We identify the scope for a participation cascade based on the distribution of follower types. We argue that achieving a participation cascade may be more likely if leaders appreciate three insights from theories of collective action. First, break down the climate mitigation problem into smaller, more manageable challenges, such as sectoral approaches. Second, prioritize major emitters and areas with high mitigation potential and politically feasible action. Finally, emphasize benefits to potential followers. Together, the strategies can help reduce the number of Hard Nut cases by making the cost/benefit calculus more attractive to prospective followers.

scholarly journals Maximising climate mitigation potential by carbon and radiative agricultural land management with cover crops

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 094075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Lugato ◽  
Alessandro Cescatti ◽  
Arwyn Jones ◽  
Guido Ceccherini ◽  
Gregory Duveiller
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Cover Crops ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Potential ◽  
Agricultural Land Management

scholarly journals Large carbon sink potential of Amazonian Secondary Forests to mitigate climate change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viola Heinrich ◽  
Ricardo Dalagnol ◽  
Henrique Cassol ◽  
Thais Rosan ◽  
Catherine Torres de Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Environmental Variability ◽  
Carbon Sink ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Mitigation Potential ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Abstract Secondary forests (SF) have a large climate mitigation potential, given their ability to sequester carbon up to 20 times faster than old-growth forests. Environmental variability and anthropogenic disturbances lead to uncertainties in estimating spatial patterns of SF carbon sequestration rates. Here we quantify the influence of environmental and disturbance drivers on the rate and spatial patterns of regrowth in the Brazilian Amazon, by integrating a 33-year land cover timeseries with a 2017 Aboveground Biomass dataset. Carbon sequestration rates of young Amazonian SF (<20 years old) are at least twice as high in the west (3.0±1.0 MgC ha-1 yr-1) than in the east (1.3±0.3 MgC ha-1 yr-1). Disturbances reduce SF regrowth rates by 8–50% (0.6 – 1.3 MgC ha-1 yr-1). We estimate the 2017 SF carbon stock to be 294 TgC, which could be 8% higher by avoiding fires and repeated deforestation. Maintaining the 2017 SF area has the potential to accumulate ~15 TgC yr-1 until 2030, contributing ~5% to Brazil’s 2030 net emissions reduction target. Supporting SF and old-growth forests conservation alongside the expansion of SF in deforested areas is therefore a viable nature-based climate mitigation solution.

scholarly journals Report: Status of Legal Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’, Local Communities’ and Afro-descendant Peoples’ Rights to Carbon Stored in Tropical Lands and Forests

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Subtropical Forest ◽  
Emissions Reductions ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
Carbon Offset ◽  
The Status ◽  
Natural Climate

This study reviews the status of the legal recognition of the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples to the carbon in their lands and territories across 31 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Together, these countries hold almost 70 percent of the world’s tropical forests and represent at least 62 percent of the total feasible natural climate solution potential, and thus the bulk of nature-based emissions reductions and carbon offset opportunities in tropical and subtropical forest countries.

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