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Agricultural land management, carbon reductions and climate policy for agriculture

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Agriculture contributes to climate change and at the same time has a huge climate change mitigation potential – this lies mainly in increased soil carbon sequestration. This article discusses the mitigation potential of soil carbon sequestration, the underlying processes and main challenges for its utilization. There are difficulties of reliable quantification, aspects of leakage and system boundaries. Utilization of this mitigation potential is currently mainly via offset mechanisms. Due to the named challenges, offset mechanisms are not adequate for this and more aggregate approaches should be employed.

Source: Carbon Management

DOI: 10.4155/cmt.12.64

Author: Adrian Muller

Institutions: ETH Zurich, Forschungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau, Institute for Environmental Decisions

Language: English

Topic: Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Subfield: Soil Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Life on land, Zero hunger

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Stiftung Mercator Schweiz, Stiftung Mercator