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From euphoria to reality on efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)
Author
Robin B. Matthews and Meine van Noordwijk
Year
2014
Journal Title
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Institution
Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Volume
19
Pages
615–620
Call Number
JA0594-14
Keywords
Reducing emissions fromdeforestation and degradation, REDD+, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cameroon, Peru, Peatlands, Carbon stocks, Greenhouse gases, GHGs
Abstract:
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently published its
Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) which concluded that warming of the earth’s climate is now
unequivocal, and that it is clear that this is due to emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from
human activities, particularly from the last half of the 20th century onwards (IPCC 2013).
Atmospheric concentrations of the GHGs, which include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane
(CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), are higher than any time over the last 650,000 years. Rapid
increases in the emissions, especially in Asia, of short-lived gases such as sulphur dioxide that
have a net cooling effect may temporarily slow down the warming, but are no structural
solution (Kaufmann et al. 2011; Klimont et al. 2013).
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