Carbon sequestration in sustainable land use

Lennart OlssonLUCSUS – Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, Sweden

www.lucsus.lu.se

Jerneck & Olsson 2009

Compare: Annual fossil fuel Emission in 2008: 8.7 GtC Yr-1

The Terrestrial Global Carbon

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Soil Carbon Balance

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The Old Peanut Basin, Senegal

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Olsson, L., Ardö, J., 2002: Soil carbon sequestration in degraded semiarid agro-ecosystems - perils and potentials, Ambio 31 (471-477)

Mitigation Potential 2030 (IPCC AR-4)

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Decomposition Carbon credits

Olsson, L, Tschakert, P., Ardö, J., 2002: Indigenous knowledge in African drylands and the Kyoto Protocol - a systems analysis approach. Proceedings, The Berlin Conference on the Human Dimension of Global Environmental Change 2002

Carbon Credits for People who

are Poor?

Poor people also emit GHGAbout 1 ton CO2 /capita/year

The 10 leading causes of life-years lost to disability and premature death.

Compare: breast cancer: 6 mDALY, prostate cancer 1.6 mDALYHotez et al 2007

FinancingFacilitation

Trust

Portfolio+ smokeless kitchen+ water harvesting+ biogas+ solar panels+ horticulture+ …

CDM

Agro-forestry

Smokelesskitchen

955 000 ton CO220 million $US??? local beneficiares21 $/ton CO2

283 000 ton CO25 million $ US40 000 local beneficiares18 $/ton CO2

508 000 ton CO20.6 million $US447 000 local beneficiares1.25 $/ton CO2

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Green, G. A. (2008). A quantitative analysis of the cost-effectiveness of project types in the CDM pipeline. Natural Resource Economics. COpenhagen, University of Copenhagen: 76.

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