Climate mitigation policies and actions: access and allocation issues

Author(s):  
Antonina Ivanova ◽  
Asim Zia ◽  
Paiman Ahmad ◽  
Mairon Bastos-Lima

Significance During last month’s UN General Assembly, President Jair Bolsonaro unsuccessfully argued that his government was controlling deforestation in the Amazon region. Reports indicate that between August 2020 and July 2021, nearly 8,800 square kilometres (km2) of forest were cut down. Impacts Despite stronger international pressure, the outlook for forest preservation is alarming absent a well-structured policy for Amazonia. Major Brazilian business sectors will face significant risks from international climate pushback without policy improvements. Brazil will argue for greater international assistance to offset the costs of climate mitigation policies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Lindroth ◽  
Lars Tranvik

AbstractThe Paris agreement identifies the importance of the conservation, or better, increase of the land carbon sink. In this respect, the mitigation policies of many forest rich countries rely heavily on products from forests as well as on the land sink. Here we demonstrate that Sweden’s land sink, which is critical in order to achieve zero net emissions by 2045 and negative emissions thereafter, is reduced to less than half when accounting for emissions from wetlands, lakes and running waters. This should have implications for the development of Sweden’s mitigation policy. National as well as the emerging global inventory of sources and sinks need to consider the entire territory to allow accurate guidance of future mitigation of climate change.


2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Rafaj ◽  
Wolfgang Schöpp ◽  
Peter Russ ◽  
Chris Heyes ◽  
Markus Amann

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