Carbon accounting for sinks in the CDM after CoP-9
| Autor: | Lucio Pedroni |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
Atmospheric Science
Global and Planetary Change Carbon accounting Natural resource economics Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Management Monitoring Policy and Law Environmental integrity Clean Development Mechanism Conference of the parties Carbon storage Greenhouse gas Environmental science Operations management Baseline (configuration management) |
| Zdroj: | Climate Policy. 5:407-418 |
| ISSN: | 1752-7457 1469-3062 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14693062.2005.9685566 |
| Popis: | The role of sinks in the clean development mechanism (CDM) has been a subject of controversy for several reasons; one being that temporary carbon storage in forests appeared to prevent any opportunity to use them as an option to reduce permanent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In Milan (December 2003), the Conference of the Parties (CoP) decided to address this problem by introducing two types of expiring units: temporary CERs (tCERs) and long-term CERs (lCERs). Countries committed to emission reductions may acquire these units to temporarily offset their emissions and thus to postpone permanent emission reductions. As further decided by the CoP, baseline emissions of GHGs and the enhancement of sinks outside the project boundary will not be accounted for in the calculation of tCERs or lCERs. The contribution of CDM-sink projects to GHG emissions abatement will therefore be greater than what will be credited to them. On the other hand, permanent GHG emissions that may result as a consequence of t... |
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