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Author: John F. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780792339427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Johannesburg, South Africa, 29 May-2 June 1995
Author: John F. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 940091637X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase, so does the potential for atmospheric warming and associated climate change. In an effort to address the threat of global climate change, 155 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. As of the first session of the Conference of the Parties, 128 nations had ratified the Convention. Among their other commitments, Parties to the Convention must develop and periodically update national inventories of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions using comparable methodologies, and must develop and implement national programs to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. To further the development of emission inventories and mitigation options within the African context, 64 governmental and non-governmental scientists and policy analysts from 23 nations gathered at a workshop near Johannesburg, South Africa from 29 May to 2 June 1995. The workshop focused on forestry, land-use change, and agriculture, because these sectors not only are responsible for the majority of emissions from the continent and provide promising opportunities for emissions mitigation, but also are a vital component of African economic growth and development. This book presents the workshop's major conclusions and findings, as well as individual papers that were prepared for the workshop, each of which was peer-reviewed and accepted for publication as part of the workshop process. The papers cover four areas: (1) issues are associated with data collection and emission factor determination; (2) problems associated with applying the IPCC inventory methodologies in Africa; (3) results of national inventory assessments in Africa; and (4) possible emissions mitigation options and methods for evaluating their potential viability. As the first book dedicated solely to greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation options in Africa, this will be an invaluable resource to scientists, policymakers, and development specialists interested in global climate change and Africa.
Author: John F. Fitzgerald
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789400916388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 925107920X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Greenhouse gas emissions by the livestock sector could be cut by as much as 30 percent through the wider use of existing best practices and technologies. FAO conducted a detailed analysis of GHG emissions at multiple stages of various livestock supply chains, including the production and transport of animal feed, on-farm energy use, emissions from animal digestion and manure decay, as well as the post-slaughter transport, refrigeration and packaging of animal products. This report represents the most comprehensive estimate made to-date of livestocks contribution to global warming as well as the sectors potential to help tackle the problem. This publication is aimed at professionals in food and agriculture as well as policy makers.
Author: Todd S. Rosenstock
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 3319297945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides standards and guidelines for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals in smallholder agricultural systems and comparing options for climate change mitigation based on emission reductions and livelihood trade-offs. Globally, agriculture is directly responsible for about 11% of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and induces an additional 17% through land use change, mostly in developing countries. Farms in the developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are predominately managed by smallholders, with 80% of land holdings smaller than ten hectares. However, little to no information exists on greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation potentials in smallholder agriculture. Greenhouse gas measurements in agriculture are expensive, time consuming, and error prone, challenges only exacerbated by the heterogeneity of smallholder systems and landscapes. Concerns over methodological rigor, measurement costs, and the diversity of approaches, coupled with the demand for robust information suggest it is germane for the scientific community to establish standards of measurements for quantifying GHG emissions from smallholder agriculture. Standard guidelines for use by scientists, development organizations will help generate reliable data on emissions baselines and allow rigorous comparisons of mitigation options. The guidelines described in this book, developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) and partners, are intended to inform anyone conducting field measurements of agricultural greenhouse gas sources and sinks, especially to develop IPCC Tier 2 emission factors or to compare mitigation options in smallholder systems.
Author: M. J. Mwandosya
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A follow up to an earlier study on an inventory of emissions by sources and removal by sinks of greenhouses gases in Tanzania, this research report is a country study on the technological and other options for the mitigation of greenhouses gases in Tanzania. The study is a preliminary fulfillment of Article 4 of the UN Convention on Climate Change, requiring signatories to formulate, implement, publish and regularly update national and where appropriate, regional programmes containing measures to mitigate climate change. For action options analysed, the study attempts to determine costs and benefits. The report covers the long term development picture, sectorial analysis of mitigation scenarios and technologies for the relevant sectors: energy, industrial, transport, forestry and land use, and agricultural sectors. The mitigation options are ranked based on the multi-criteria assessment method.
Author: Thomas W. Hertel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-05-07
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 1135978824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Land has long been overlooked in economics. That is now changing. A substantial part of the solution to the climate crisis may lie in growing crops for fuel and using trees for storing carbon. This book investigates the potential of these options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, estimates the costs to the economy, and analyses the trade-offs with growing food. The first part presents new databases that are necessary to underpin policy-relevant research in the field of climate change while describing and critically assessing the underlying data, the methodologies used, and the first applications. Together, the new data and the extended models allow for a thorough and comprehensive analysis of a land use and climate policy. This book outlines key empirical and analytical issues associated with modelling land use and land use change in the context of global climate change policy. It places special emphasis on the economy-wide competition for land and other resources, especially; The implications of changes in land use for the cost of climate change mitigation, Land use change as a result of mitigation, and Feedback from changes in the global climate to land use. By offering synthesis and evaluation of a variety of different approaches to this challenging field of research, this book will serve as a key reference for future work in the economic analysis of land use and climate change policy.
