Estimating Leakage from Forest Carbon Sequestration Programs

Murray, Brian C.; McCarl, Bruce A.; Lee, Heng-Chi

doi:10.2307/3147147

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“…may reduce agricultural land leading to increased food prices (Grieg-Gran 2010). Such schemes may also lead to leakage where deforestation moves to a region with fewer regulations (Murray et al 2004).…”

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Presenting Triple-Wins? Assessing Projects That Deliver Adaptation, Mitigation and Development Co-benefits in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Suckall

Stringer

Tompkins

2014

AMBIO

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The concept of climate compatible development (CCD) is increasingly employed by donors and policy makers seeking 'triple-wins' for development, adaptation and mitigation. While CCD rhetoric is becoming more widespread, analyses drawing on empirical cases that present triple-wins are sorely lacking. We address this knowledge gap. Drawing on examples in rural sub-Saharan Africa, we provide the first glimpse into how projects that demonstrate triple-win potential are framed and presented within the scientific literature. We identify that development projects are still commonly evaluated in terms of adaptation or mitigation benefits. Few are framed according to their benefits across all three dimensions. Consequently, where triple-wins are occurring, they are likely to be under-reported. This has important implications, which underestimates the co-benefits that projects can deliver. A more robust academic evidence base for the delivery of triple-wins is necessary to encourage continued donor investment in activities offering the potential to deliver CCD.

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Presenting Triple-Wins? Assessing Projects That Deliver Adaptation, Mitigation and Development Co-benefits in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Suckall

Stringer

Tompkins

2014

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“…For example, an estimate of the percentage reduction in net GHG emissions by using corn-based ethanol is 17% relative to using gasoline (McCarl and Reilly 2007;McCarl 2008). However, one must be careful of market effects that may simulate land use change elsewhere as this can increase emissions (Murray, McCarl and Lee 2004;Searchinger et al 2008;Fargione et al 2008). …”

Section: Agricultural Based Emissionsmentioning

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Land Use and Climate Change

McCarl

Attavanich

Musumba

et al. 2014

The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics

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Land use is majorly involved with climate change concerns and this chapter discusses and reviews the interrelationships between the vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation aspects of land use and climate change. We review a number of key studies on climate change issues regarding land productivity, land use and land management (LPLULM), identifying key findings, pointing out research needs, and raising economic/policy questions to ponder.Overall, this chapter goes beyond previous reviews and simultaneously treats the troika of vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation aspects of the issue, which will provide readers with a more comprehensive, multifaceted grasp of the spectrum of current issues regarding LPLULM and climate change.

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“…Followers of GHG offset policy will recognize this as an issue of leakage (Murray et al, 2004) that is similar to the concept of slippage in land conservation efforts (Wu, 2000;Roberts and Bucholtz, 2005). For the purposes of offset accounting, leakage is typically handled as a completely separate measure that is added to (subtracted from) the direct onsite crediting measure.…”

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“…Most discussions of leakage focus on mitigation actions that either remove area from production or reduce productivity, causing an increase in production and emissions elsewhere not governed by the system (Murray et al, 2004;Jenkins et al, 2009). This is sometimes referred to as negative leakage, in contrast to the positive leakage used in the yield improvement example above.…”

Section: Role Of Emissions Displacementmentioning

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An output-based intensity approach for crediting greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture: explanation and policy implications

Murray

Baker

2011

Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management

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US legislators have recently proposed output-based emissions intensity metrics as an approach to credit greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets from agriculture and other uncapped sectors. This article explains the features and rationale of the output-based offset (OBO) approach, outlines a candidate accounting methodology, discusses the potential advantages and limitations of such an approach relative to the area-based offset (ABO) approach that is standard practice in some settings, and introduces possible policy implications. By incentivizing improvements in agricultural efficiency, the OBO approach strives to achieve the dual goals of food security and climate change mitigation. It expands the toolkit for achieving reductions in agricultural emissions, rewards technological advancement in both emission reductions and yields, and offers promise for addressing the problem of accounting for leakage. But because it is based on improvements in GHG efficiency in agriculture rather than on absolute reductions, emissions and climate risks could continue to rise while credits are being issued. An OBO approach might work best as a transitional strategy to address emissions from sectors or countries likely to remain outside a strict regulatory cap. Because it is the total atmospheric concentration of GHGs that creates the environmental threat of climate change, policies should ultimately focus not on the intensity of emissions but rather on their absolute levels.

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Estimating Leakage from Forest Carbon Sequestration Programs

Cited by 227 publications

References 28 publications

Presenting Triple-Wins? Assessing Projects That Deliver Adaptation, Mitigation and Development Co-benefits in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Presenting Triple-Wins? Assessing Projects That Deliver Adaptation, Mitigation and Development Co-benefits in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Land Use and Climate Change

An output-based intensity approach for crediting greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture: explanation and policy implications

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