1. The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Implications for the Kyoto Protocol
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Steffen, W., Noble, I., Canadell, J., Apps, M., Schulze, Ed, Jarvis, Pg, Baldocchi, D., Ciais, P., Cramer, W., Ehleringer, J., Farquhar, G., Field, Cb, Ghazi, A., Gifford, R., Martin Heimann, Houghton, R., Kabat, P., Korner, C., Lambin, E., Linder, S., Mooney, Ha, Murdiyarso, D., Post, Wm, Prentice, Ic, Raupach, MR, Schimel, Ds, Shvidenko, A., Valentini, R., Australian National University (ANU), Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie (MPI-BGC), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), ICOS-ATC (ICOS-ATC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Utah, Carnegie Institution of Washington, European Commission [Brussels], CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Woods Hole Research Center, Partenaires INRAE, DLO Winand Staring Centre, University of Basel (Unibas), Department of Geography, Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Ecology and Environmental Science [Umeå], Umeå University, Stanford University, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR), Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Oak Ridge] (ORNL), UT-Battelle, LLC, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis [Laxenburg] (IIASA), Università degli studi della Tuscia [Viterbo], Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University, Canadian Forest Service - CFS (CANADA), Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, and University of Edinburgh
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Multidisciplinary ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Winand Staring Centre for Integrated Land, Soil and Water Research ,Carbon offset ,Carbon sink ,010501 environmental sciences ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Carbon cycle ,Fossil fuel emissions ,Staring Centrum ,13. Climate action ,Environmental protection ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,11. Sustainability ,Life Science ,Environmental science ,Kyoto Protocol ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The Kyoto Protocol achieved a significant breakthrough by including terrestrial carbon sources and sinks into a legally binding emissions reduction framework. The effectiveness of the portocol can be improved by adopting a full carbon budget. Terrestrial carbon sinks are part of an active biological cycle and can offset fossil fuel emissions only temporarily, from decades to a century. They can thus buy time to address anthropogenic perturbation emissions.
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- 1998
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