Net carbon accounting and reporting are a barrier to understanding the mitigation value of forest protection in developed countries
Author: Brendan Mackey, William Moomaw, David Lindenmayer and Heather Keith
Date: 2022
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Language: English
Type of resource: Academic article
Topics: Climate
Meeting the Paris Agreement global warming target requires deep and rapid cuts in CO2 emissions as well as removals from the atmosphere into land sinks, especially forests. While international climate policy in the land sector does now recognize forest protection as a mitigation strategy, it is not receiving sufficient attention in developed countries even though they experience emissions from deforestation as well as from logging of managed forests.
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