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Guide to Monitoring Carbon Storage in Forestry and Agroforestry Projects.


PB99143257

Publication Date 1997
Personal Author MacDicken, K. G.
Page Count 110
Abstract As the international Joint Implementation (JI) program develops a system for trading carbon credits to offset greenhouse gas emissions, project managers need a reliable basis for measuring the carbon storage benefits of carbon offset projects. Monitoring and verifying carbon storage can be expensive, depending on the level of scientific validity needed. This guide describes a system of cost-effective methods for monitoring and verification on a commercial basis, for three types of land use; forest plantations, managed natural forests and agroforestry. Winrock International's Forest Carbon Monitoring Program developed this system with its partners as a way to provide reliable results using accepted principles and practices of forest inventory, soil science and ecological surveys. Perhaps most important, the system brings field research methods to bear on commercial-scale inventories, at levels of precision specified by funding agencies.
Keywords
  • Forests
  • Agroforests
  • Carbon storage
  • Monitoring
  • Verification
  • Inventories
  • Soil science
  • Ecological surveys
  • Carbon offset project
Source Agency
  • Office of International Affairs
Corporate Authors Winrock International Inst. for Agricultural Development, Arlington, VA. Forest Carbon Monitoring Program.
Supplemental Notes See also PB99-143265.
Document Type Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number 199915
Guide to Monitoring Carbon Storage in Forestry and Agroforestry Projects.
Guide to Monitoring Carbon Storage in Forestry and Agroforestry Projects.
PB99143257

  • Forests
  • Agroforests
  • Carbon storage
  • Monitoring
  • Verification
  • Inventories
  • Soil science
  • Ecological surveys
  • Carbon offset project
  • Office of International Affairs
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