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CATEGORIES:Plant Sciences Research Seminars
SUMMARY:Establishing baseline emissions rates for REDD+ - 
 Beccy Wilebore
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20110727T160000
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UID:TALK31888AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/31888
DESCRIPTION:Tropical forests store the most carbon per hectare
  of any land cover on earth. When forests are degr
 aded or converted\, carbon that was previously sto
 red in forest biomass and soils is decomposed and 
 released to the atmosphere\, contributing an estim
 ated 15% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
  globally. For over a decade a financial incentive
  scheme for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation 
 and forest Degradation (REDD plus) has been under 
 development\, and gathering momentum under the Uni
 ted Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
 . Investors in carbon credits generated from REDD 
 plus to offset carbon emissions will seek assuranc
 es that emissions reductions are genuine\, requiri
 ng the development of robust and transparent monit
 oring systems to evaluate the effectiveness of RED
 D plus interventions. Emissions reductions will be
  calculated by comparing actual emissions during a
 n implementation period with the predicted emissio
 ns\, based on models of how much carbon would have
  been emitted under a business-as-usual scenario. 
 However one of the greatest criticisms of the scie
 ntific community working on REDD plus is the inabi
 lity to predict these future emissions with accura
 cy and reliability. Using data from a well studied
  site in Sierra Leone I will assess different appr
 oaches to predicting future emissions at the proje
 ct scale\, and secondly examine how lessons learne
 d from small REDD plus projects such as this can b
 e used to scale up activities to the national leve
 l. 
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theat
 re
CONTACT:Suzy Stoodley
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