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Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD): a climate change mitigation strategy on a critical track

BACKGROUND: Following recent discussions, there is hope that a mechanism for reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) will be agreed by the Parties of the UNFCCC at their 15th meeting in Copenhagen in 2009 as an eligible action to prevent climate changes and global war...

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Autores principales: Köhl, Michael, Baldauf, Thomas, Plugge, Daniel, Krug, Joachim
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2786908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19909557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-0680-4-10
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author Köhl, Michael
Baldauf, Thomas
Plugge, Daniel
Krug, Joachim
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Plugge, Daniel
Krug, Joachim
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description BACKGROUND: Following recent discussions, there is hope that a mechanism for reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) will be agreed by the Parties of the UNFCCC at their 15th meeting in Copenhagen in 2009 as an eligible action to prevent climate changes and global warming in post-2012 commitment periods. Countries introducing a REDD-regime in order to generate benefits need to implement sound monitoring and reporting systems and specify the associated uncertainties. The principle of conservativeness addresses the problem of estimation errors and requests the reporting of reliable minimum estimates (RME). Here the potential to generate benefits from applying a REDD-regime is proposed with reference to sampling and non-sampling errors that influence the reliability of estimated activity data and emission factors. RESULTS: A framework for calculating carbon benefits by including assessment errors is developed. Theoretical, sample based considerations as well as a simulation study for five selected countries with low to high deforestation and degradation rates show that even small assessment errors (5% and less) may outweigh successful efforts to reduce deforestation and degradation. CONCLUSION: The generation of benefits from REDD is possible only in situations where assessment errors are carefully controlled.
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spelling pubmed-27869082009-12-02 Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD): a climate change mitigation strategy on a critical track Köhl, Michael Baldauf, Thomas Plugge, Daniel Krug, Joachim Carbon Balance Manag Research BACKGROUND: Following recent discussions, there is hope that a mechanism for reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) will be agreed by the Parties of the UNFCCC at their 15th meeting in Copenhagen in 2009 as an eligible action to prevent climate changes and global warming in post-2012 commitment periods. Countries introducing a REDD-regime in order to generate benefits need to implement sound monitoring and reporting systems and specify the associated uncertainties. The principle of conservativeness addresses the problem of estimation errors and requests the reporting of reliable minimum estimates (RME). Here the potential to generate benefits from applying a REDD-regime is proposed with reference to sampling and non-sampling errors that influence the reliability of estimated activity data and emission factors. RESULTS: A framework for calculating carbon benefits by including assessment errors is developed. Theoretical, sample based considerations as well as a simulation study for five selected countries with low to high deforestation and degradation rates show that even small assessment errors (5% and less) may outweigh successful efforts to reduce deforestation and degradation. CONCLUSION: The generation of benefits from REDD is possible only in situations where assessment errors are carefully controlled. BioMed Central 2009-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2786908/ /pubmed/19909557 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-0680-4-10 Text en Copyright ©2009 Köhl et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD): a climate change mitigation strategy on a critical track
title Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD): a climate change mitigation strategy on a critical track
title_full Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD): a climate change mitigation strategy on a critical track
title_fullStr Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD): a climate change mitigation strategy on a critical track
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title_short Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD): a climate change mitigation strategy on a critical track
title_sort reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (redd): a climate change mitigation strategy on a critical track
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2786908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19909557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-0680-4-10
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