Carbon sequestration in sustainable land use
Lennart OlssonLUCSUS – Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, Sweden
www.lucsus.lu.se
Jerneck & Olsson 2009
Compare: Annual fossil fuel Emission in 2008: 8.7 GtC Yr-1
The Terrestrial Global Carbon
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Soil Carbon Balance
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The Old Peanut Basin, Senegal
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Olsson, L., Ardö, J., 2002: Soil carbon sequestration in degraded semiarid agro-ecosystems - perils and potentials, Ambio 31 (471-477)
Mitigation Potential 2030 (IPCC AR-4)
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Decomposition Carbon credits
Olsson, L, Tschakert, P., Ardö, J., 2002: Indigenous knowledge in African drylands and the Kyoto Protocol - a systems analysis approach. Proceedings, The Berlin Conference on the Human Dimension of Global Environmental Change 2002
Carbon Credits for People who
are Poor?
Poor people also emit GHGAbout 1 ton CO2 /capita/year
The 10 leading causes of life-years lost to disability and premature death.
Compare: breast cancer: 6 mDALY, prostate cancer 1.6 mDALYHotez et al 2007
FinancingFacilitation
Trust
Portfolio+ smokeless kitchen+ water harvesting+ biogas+ solar panels+ horticulture+ …
CDM
Agro-forestry
Smokelesskitchen
955 000 ton CO220 million $US??? local beneficiares21 $/ton CO2
283 000 ton CO25 million $ US40 000 local beneficiares18 $/ton CO2
508 000 ton CO20.6 million $US447 000 local beneficiares1.25 $/ton CO2
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Green, G. A. (2008). A quantitative analysis of the cost-effectiveness of project types in the CDM pipeline. Natural Resource Economics. COpenhagen, University of Copenhagen: 76.
Cost-effectiveness of CDMU
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