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Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land-Use Emissions in Latin America

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Title Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land-Use Emissions in Latin America
 
Creator Calvin, Katherine
Beach, Robert
Gurgel, Angelo
Labriet, Maryse
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
 
Subject CLIMATE CHANGE
AGRICULTURE
FOOD SECURITY
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
 
Description Nearly 40% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Latin America were from agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) in 2008, more than double the global fraction of AFOLU emissions. In this article, we investigate the future trajectory of AFOLU GHG emissions in Latin America, with and without efforts to mitigate, using a multi-model comparison approach. We find significant uncertainty in future emissions with and without climate policy. This uncertainty is due to differences in a variety of assumptions including (1) the role of bioenergy, (2) where and how bioenergy is produced, (3) the availability of afforestation options in climate mitigation policy, and (4) N2O and CH4 emission intensity. With climate policy, these differences in assumptions can lead to significant variance in mitigation potential, with three models indicating reductions in AFOLU GHG emissions and one model indicating modest increases in AFOLU GHG emissions.
 
Date 2016-06-23T03:00:43Z
2016-06-23T03:00:43Z
2016-05-06
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Calvin K, Beach R, Gurgel A, Labriet M, Loboguerrero Rodriguez AM. 2016. Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land-Use Emissions in Latin America. Energy Economics 56:615–624.
0140-9883
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75785
 
Language en
 
Rights CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
 
Source Energy Economics