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    Green Carbon

    The role of natural forests in carbon storage

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    Mackey, Brendan
    Keith, Heather
    L. Berry, Sandra
    B. Lindenmayer, David
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    The colour of carbon matters. Green carbon is the carbon stored in the plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle. This report is the first in a series that examines the role of natural forests in the storage of carbon, the impacts of human land use activities, and the implications for climate change policy nationally and internationally. REDD (“reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation”) is now part of the agenda for the “Bali Action Plan” being debated in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009. Currently, international rules are blind to the colour of carbon so that the green carbon in natural forests is not recognised, resulting in perverse outcomes including ongoing deforestation and forest degradation, and the conversion of extensive areas of land to industrial plantations. This report examines REDD policy from a green carbon scientific perspective. Subsequent reports will focus on issues concerning the carbon sequestration potential of commercially logged natural forests, methods for monitoring REDD, and the long term implications of forest policy and management for the global carbon cycle and climate change.
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    https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32100
    Keywords
    carbon; forests; plants; environmental aspects; Biomass; Carrying capacity; Climate change (general concept); Ecological economics; Greenhouse gas; Hectare; Land use
    DOI
    10.26530/OAPEN_459256
    Publisher
    ANU Press
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    http://press.anu.edu.au
    Publication date and place
    Canberra, 2008
    Classification
    Environmentalist thought & ideology
    Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques
    Pages
    47
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    http://press.anu.edu.au/about/conditions-use
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