The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Soluti

Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-Carbon Economy

How to Create, Measure, and Verify Greenhouse Gas Offsets
Herausgeber: Willey, Zach; Chameides, Bill

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Produktbeschreibung

The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University is a nonpartisan institute that engages with decision-makers in government, the private sector, and the nonprofit community to develop innovative proposals that address critical environmental challenges, with offices at Duke University and in Washington, D.C. Zach Willey is a Senior Economist at Environmental Defense, a leading national nonprofit organization that links science, economics, and law to create innovative, equitable, and cost-effective solutions to society’s most urgent environmental problems. Willey specializes in developing economic solutions to greenhouse gas emission and natural resource degradation problems in terrestrial ecosystems. Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, is former chief scientist of Environmental Defense and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 219mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341680
• ISBN-10: 0822341689
• Artikelnr.: 22871731

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and Zach Willey and Bill Chameides, editors, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword vii
Preface ix
Part I. Overview
1. Introduction: The Role of Landowners and Farmers in the New Low-Carbon
Economy 3
2. The Process of Creating Offsets 10
3. Land-Management Options for Creating Offsets 22
Part II. Steps in Determining a Project's Offsets
4. Step 1: Scoping the Costs and Benefits of a Proposed Project 39
5. Step 2: Determining Additionality and Baselines 46
6. Step 3: Quantifying the Carbon Sequestered in Forests 52
7. Step 4: Quantifying the Carbon Sequestered in Soil 64
8. Step 5: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Manure 75
9. Step 6: Quantifying and Minimizing Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions
from Soil 84
10. Step 7: Estimating Leakage or Off-Site Emissions Caused by the Project
91
11. Step 8: Verifying and Registering Offsets 99
12: Conclusion: Putting These Guidelines into Pratice 107
Appendices 109
Notes 209
Bibliography 215
Index 223