The Role for Sustainably Managed Forests in Climate Change Mitigation Export

@article{citeulike:3563267, abstract = {The United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, restricting the ability of forests from participating internationally as greenhouse gas (GHG) emission offset projects. As a result, a proliferation of different registry and program rules is occurring in the United States, providing an opportunity for the US forestry community to mitigate GHG emissions. This article addresses the Kyoto Protocol principles of additionality, permanence, and leakage, and challenges the way that these principles are being used to qualify forest offset projects as climate change mitigation measures. Policy initiatives are proposed for challenging policymakers and the forestry community to rethink sustainably managed forest offset project rules as the United States considers GHG emission reduction legislation.}, author = {Ruddell, S. and Sampson, R. and Smith, M. and Giffen, R. and Cathcart, J. and Hagan, J. and Sosland, D. and Godbee, J. and Heissenbuttel, J. and Lovett, S. and Helms, J. and Price, W. and Simpson, R.}, citeulike-article-id = {3563267}, journal = {Journal of Forestry}, keywords = {carbon-offsets, carbon-storage, climate-change, mitigation, sequestration}, month = {September}, posted-at = {2008-11-17 22:34:43}, priority = {2}, title = {The Role for Sustainably Managed Forests in Climate Change Mitigation}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3563267 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3563267 N2 - The United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, restricting the ability of forests from participating internationally as greenhouse gas (GHG) emission offset projects. As a result, a proliferation of different registry and program rules is occurring in the United States, providing an opportunity for the US forestry community to mitigate GHG emissions. This article addresses the Kyoto Protocol principles of additionality, permanence, and leakage, and challenges the way that these principles are being used to qualify forest offset projects as climate change mitigation measures. Policy initiatives are proposed for challenging policymakers and the forestry community to rethink sustainably managed forest offset project rules as the United States considers GHG emission reduction legislation. JF - Journal of Forestry TI - The Role for Sustainably Managed Forests in Climate Change Mitigation KW - carbon-offsets KW - carbon-storage KW - climate-change KW - mitigation KW - sequestration AU - Ruddell, S AU - Sampson, R AU - Smith, M AU - Giffen, R AU - Cathcart, J AU - Hagan, J AU - Sosland, D AU - Godbee, J AU - Heissenbuttel, J AU - Lovett, S AU - Helms, J AU - Price, W AU - Simpson, R PY - 2007/09// ER -