Quantifying and attributing land use-induced carbon emissions to biomass consumption: A critical assessment of existing approaches

Bhan, Manan; Gingrich, Simone; Roux, Nicolas Le; Noë, Julia Le; Kastner, Thomas; Matej, Sarah; Schwarzmueller, Florian; Erb, Karl‐Heinz

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112228

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“…Partly the differences reflect methodological choices (e.g., choice of amortization period over which deforestation is allocated to agricultural production). 86,87 In addition, data limitations still prevail: despite great advances in remote sensing improving our understanding of land-cover changes (e.g., Hansen et al 88 ), lack of global datasets distinguishing between different agricultural land uses limits our ability to consistently attribute forest loss to drivers across scales. 89 To overcome this data gap, many studies still rely on more or less simplistic assumptions or land-use change models to attribute deforestation to agricultural commodity production and trade (Table 2).…”

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Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition

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Global land systems are increasingly shaped by international trade of agricultural products. An increasing number of studies have quantified the implications of agricultural trade for single different aspects of land system sustainability. Bringing together studies across different sustainability dimensions, this review investigates how global agricultural trade flows have affected land systems and resulting impacts on food and nutrient availability, natural habitat conversion, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem carbon storage. We show that the effects of trade on land systems are highly heterogeneous across regions and commodities, revealing both synergies and trade-offs between improved nutrition and environmental conservation. For instance, we find that while the concentration of cereal production in North America has spared land, the increased demand for tropical products induced by trade has negatively impacted tropical ecosystems. Based on the current state of knowledge, we identify six pathways for how future research can contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of how agricultural trade can positively contribute to meeting global sustainability goals.

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“…Land‐based emissions linked to deforestation for soy and palm oil are counted in territorial terms, and attributed to Brazil and Indonesia (Henders et al., 2015), rather than consumption‐based terms. This is in part because of measuring difficulties (Bhan et al., 2021), and in part because metrics are ideological, and decisions about how to allocate resources to create them are political. Reliance on these metrics, then, becomes the norm in the scientific literature, including of the most critical kind (Hickel, 2020).…”

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Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes

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“…To mitigate global warming and ensure the sustainable development of human civilization, it has become a global consensus to make reasonable emission reduction of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (Arneth et al, 2017;Bhan et al, 2021;Tan et al, 2021b;Zhang et al, 2022a). The solution to the carbon emission problem inevitably requires the intervention of governmental entities, and the effect of the governmental intervention will directly affect the achievement of the carbon emission control target or not (Akbari et al, 2016;Chen M et al, 2016;Demuzere et al, 2014).…”

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Analysis of the coupling characteristics of land transfer and carbon emissions and its influencing factors: A case study of China

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The rapid and disorderly expansion of urban construction land has exacerbated the contradiction between land use and low-carbon development. In this paper, we use the spatial autocorrelation model and coupling model to analyze the spatial characteristics of the coupled coordination degree of land transfer and carbon emissions in 291 cities in China. The multi-scale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) model is used to explore the spatial heterogeneity of the influence of socioeconomic factors on their coupled coordination degree. The results show that: from 2005 to 2015, the scale of land transfer and carbon emissions has been increasing quantitatively and spatially showing a shift from the southeast coast to the central and western regions. In 2005, 2010, and 2015, the global Moran’s I of the coupled coordination degree are .3045, .3725, and .3388, respectively, indicating that the coupled coordination degree between land transfer and carbon emissions has a significant positive spatial autocorrelation. The MGWR model indicates that the influence of socioeconomic factors on the coupling coordination degree has significant spatial heterogeneity at different time nodes. In 2005 and 2015, the coefficients of the NGR on the coupling coordination of land transfer and carbon emissions have obvious stratification characteristics, with the coefficients decreasing from northeast to southwest. In 2010, the high coefficient (.924∼.989) of GPC is mainly distributed in the central region. The coefficient of the PD ranges from .464 to .918, but the difference of influence degree between the southeast coast and the northwest is obvious. This study may provide new clues for sustainable urban development and carbon reduction.

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Quantifying and attributing land use-induced carbon emissions to biomass consumption: A critical assessment of existing approaches

Cited by 26 publications

References 73 publications

Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition

Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition

Everything Stays the Same while Everything Changes

Analysis of the coupling characteristics of land transfer and carbon emissions and its influencing factors: A case study of China

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