GHG mitigation of agricultural peatlands requires coherent policies

Modeling Alternative Policies for Forestry and Agricultural Bioenergy Production and GHG Mitigation

A key consideration for development of energy and climate policy affecting the forestry and agricultural sectors is that the selection of specific mechanisms implemented to achieve bioenergy production and/or greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation targets may have substantial effects on landowner incentives to adopt alternative practices. For instance, the prices of allowances and offsets are expected...

GHG Mitigation in Iran’s Energy Sector According to the National General Policies

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change calls on member states to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible in order to combat global warming. Iran has announced 4 and 12 percent emission reduction targets in 2030 in its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions compared to the Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenario, in which the energy sector has the largest shar...

GHG Mitigation in Iran’s Energy Sector According to the National General Policies

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change calls on member states to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible in order to combat global warming. Iran has announced 4 and 12 percent emission reduction targets in 2030 in its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions compared to the Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenario, in which the energy sector has the largest shar...

Sectoral Economic Costs and Benefits of Ghg Mitigation

The potential of responsible peatland management to reduce global soil carbon loss and greenhouse gas emissions

Peatlands represent the largest single global store of soil carbon. Despite providing a natural long-term CO2 sink, drainage and conversion to agricultural and silivicultural management of peatlands has converted them into large net contributors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (~2.5% of all anthropogenic emissions, primarily from Europe and SE Asia). Drainage-based agriculture on peatl...