The land-use sector serves key environmental and social functions and supports the livelihoods of around a half of the worldas population. Despite its importance, however, the climate regime fails to formulate a coherent vision or set of incentives for mitigation and adaptation from the sector. The negotiation of a future climate treaty that will take effect in 2020 presents a key opportunity to improve the current system and create an integrated accounting and incentive framework for adaptation and mitigation strategies across all land-uses. This report - conducted by Climate Focus together with UNIQUE forestry and land use - analyses the current status of the land-use sector under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, and formulates options for how various incentives and systems could be harmonized under a future climate treaty.In general, their considerations relate to the following issues: The EU, New Zealand, Japan and China have stressed ... According to Australia, a technical analysis of alinkages between categories and activities, the sources of differences , andanbsp;...
Title | : | The land-use sector within the post-2020 climate regime |
Author | : | Charlie Parker, Eduard Merger, Charlotte Streck, Timm Tennigkeit, Andreas Wilkes |
Publisher | : | Nordic Council of Ministers - 2014-04-08 |
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