landuse_adp_jun2014-d45a4ec9cd4fb382.pdf

The policy brief outlines key principles for land-use mitigation, warning against using carbon sequestration to offset fossil fuel emissions and emphasizing the protection of food security and indigenous rights. It critiques current Kyoto Protocol LULUCF accounting as overly complex and prone to loopholes, recommending separate targets for industrial and land-use emissions due to the temporary nature of terrestrial carbon pools. The document advocates for policy-based measures, improved forest governance, and a focus on methane and nitrous oxide in agriculture to achieve permanent emission reductions.

• Land-use mitigation must be treated as additional to industrial reductions because carbon sequestration in soils and forests is temporary, whereas fossil fuel emissions are permanent; therefore, land-use actions should not be used to displace or reduce mitigation in other sectors.
• Developing countries, particularly Least Developed Countries (LDCs), must prioritize food security and sovereignty, which may necessitate increasing agricultural emissions in the short term to protect smallholder livelihoods that support up to 80% of people in these regions.
• Current LULUCF accounting rules under the Kyoto Protocol are criticized for being needlessly complex and creating loopholes that allow developed countries to hide land-use emissions and increase emissions in other sectors.
• Due to high uncertainty in measuring land-use emissions—sometimes up to 50% for reduced deforestation—and the non-comparability of terrestrial carbon pools with fossil fuels, the document recommends separate targets for industrial and land-use emissions or the use of direct indicators like hectares of forest maintained.
• Agricultural mitigation should prioritize permanent reductions by addressing high per capita meat consumption and the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers in developed countries, while agro-ecological practices should be treated as adaptation measures rather than mitigation due to the volatility of soil carbon.

APA

Center for International Environmental Law (n.d.). landuse_adp_jun2014-d45a4ec9cd4fb382.pdf. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/LandUse_ADP_Jun2014.pdf

Chicago

Center for International Environmental Law. landuse_adp_jun2014-d45a4ec9cd4fb382.pdf. n.d. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/LandUse_ADP_Jun2014.pdf.

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BibTeX

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