Cash for tropical peat: land use change and forestry projects for climate change mitigation
MacDicken, K.G. (Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor (Indonesia))
While tropical peat swamps can present very large stocks, the threat of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphrere is much lower. Given the current agreement for activities to be conducted through the Clean Development Mechanism (afforestation and reforestation only), it seems there is little opportunity for peat swamp projects because they are unlikely to effectively compete with projects on terrafirma. There is still a chance that forest conservation could be included as a project alternative in future commitment periods. It is important that scientists working on tropical peat swamps seek to influence policy markers to include forest conservation in the Kyoto Protocol if peat swamps are to be conserved through climate change mitigation mechanisms
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