Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Assessment: A Guidebook

Sathaye, Jayant; Meyers, Stephen

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“…Rango et al (2002) quote Holechek et al's (1995) definition of it as uncultivated land that supports grazing and browsing animals; they argue that it therefore includes deserts, forests and all natural grasslands, but most definitions would not include forests. Sathaye and Meyers (1995) refer to 'grasslands, savannas, and deserts'. Allen-Diaz et al (1996, p. 134) It is as hard to be precise about the potential for grassland carbon as it is to estimate that for arable farming.…”

Section: Soil Conservation Grassland Management: Unintended Consequementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ni (2002) highlights the wide variation in estimates of China's grassland carbon storage, and ascribes them to differences in classification and estimation. But AllenDiaz et al (1996) states that rangeland contains about 36% of the world's total carbon in above-and below-ground biomass; Sathaye and Meyers (1995) quote estimates of 417 Pg C, mostly below ground. FAO (2000) suggest a figure of anywhere between 200 and 420 Pg Cagain, mostly below ground and stable; it adds that grassland contains about 70 Mg/ha of soil carbon, similar to the content of forest soils.…”

Section: Soil Conservation Grassland Management: Unintended Consequementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sathaye and Meyers (1995) quote UNEP's 1991 estimate that rehabilitation of the world's rangelands would cost about $5 -8 billion a year over 20 years. They report that, using the CENTURY model, sustainable rangeland management could sequester about 0.7 billion tons of carbon a year at the cost of $10 per ton, 'comparable or superior to the estimates in the forestry sector' (Sathaye and Meyers 1995). The World Bank and GEF are aware of this potential and have incorporated either approximate market or shadow prices for carbon in their analyses of pasture and grassland projects.…”

Section: Soil Conservation Grassland Management: Unintended Consequementioning

confidence: 99%

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Agricultural sinks in the developing world: Different disciplines and different perspectives

Robbins

2005

Environmental Sciences

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Agriculture is historically a source of atmospheric carbon. With the best management practices, this could be partly reversed, with a potential increase in size of the soil carbon pool that would have significant impact as a measure to mitigate climate change. This might benefit farmers twice over, as the carbon has a cash value, while the soil organic matter that contains it will assist productivity. There is therefore a business opportunity in carbon payments for farmers in the developed world. However, this article considers whether such payments might alleviate rural poverty and fund agricultural development in low-income countries. They might do so, but badly designed projects could lead to emission rather than sequestration, accompanied by productivity losses. Prevention of such perverse outcomes requires a multidisciplinary approach and an awareness of the political ecology context of sinks projects. An appropriate methodology is needed for the evaluation of soil carbon projects in developing countries.

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Section: Soil Conservation Grassland Management: Unintended Consequementioning

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Section: Soil Conservation Grassland Management: Unintended Consequementioning

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Agricultural sinks in the developing world: Different disciplines and different perspectives

Robbins

2005

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“…The COMAP model was used for the assessment of the mitigation potential and cc effectiveness of these projects (Sathaye et al, 1995). Table 1 lists the basic features and data f the three proposals.…”

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AIJ in the Non-Energy Sector in India: Opportunities and Concerns

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1998

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“…We note however that the results of this analysis are always dependent on the baseline or reference technology chosen [14]. To overcome this drawback, we propose to complement the mitigation cost analysis with a multi-objective approach in which economic and environmental objectives are simultaneously optimized.…”

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Economic and Environmental Performances of Small-Scale Rural PV Solar Projects under the Clean Development Mechanism: The Case of Cambodia

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Abstract:The two core objectives of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are cost-effective emission reduction and sustainable development. Despite the potential to contribute to both objectives, solar projects play a negligible role under the CDM. In this research, the greenhouse gas mitigation cost is used to evaluate the economic and environmental performances of small-scale rural photovoltaic solar projects. In particular, we compare the use of absolute and relative mitigation costs to evaluate the attractiveness of these projects under the CDM. We encourage the use of relative mitigation costs, implying consideration of baseline costs that render the projects profitable. Results of the mitigation cost analysis are dependent on the baseline chosen. To overcome this drawback, we complement the analysis with a multi-objective optimization approach, which allows quantifying the trade-off between economic and environmental performances of the optimal technologies without requiring a baseline. OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2015, 8 9893

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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Assessment: A Guidebook

Cited by 40 publications

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Agricultural sinks in the developing world: Different disciplines and different perspectives

Agricultural sinks in the developing world: Different disciplines and different perspectives

AIJ in the Non-Energy Sector in India: Opportunities and Concerns

Economic and Environmental Performances of Small-Scale Rural PV Solar Projects under the Clean Development Mechanism: The Case of Cambodia

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