10 Side-step in climate politics: Land use, land use change + forestry COP-agreements from Kyoto to Marrakesh have been (a) complicating emission redu
{"Image DocumentName": "Side-step in climate politics: Land use, land use change + forestry", "Image ImageDescription": "COP-agreements from Kyoto to Marrakesh have been. (a) complicating emission reductions by insecure, biological compensation mechanisms through land use, land use change + forestry (LULUCF; political compromise) (b) introducing all-encompassing notion of CO2-neutrality of incineration of all biomass (regardless of length of plant rotation) (c)favouring cutting and regrowth against old forests, as if this was superior for binding of CO2 (Odum dogma) (d) shifting focus from agriculture as actual net source of greenhouse gases (incl. NOx + methane = GHG) n. Ad (a) Schulze et al Ad \u00a9 See my critique of the assumption of the Manomet report of an enhanced growth potential in forests, when cutting more trees for combustion. And their preference for cutting large trees, as critiqued by Booth (article for the conference). Ernst-Detlev Schulze has published several articles on the CO2-sink function of old growth forests, see Schulze From the summary: Old-growth forests accumulate carbon for centuries and contain large quantities of it. We expect, however, that much of this carbon, even soil carbon, will move back to the atmosphere if these forests are disturbed. Yet, these old growth stands are not recognized as C sinks in the Kyoto Treaty context, see on this Schulze et al and the German councellors of the government WGBU Ad (d) see the oral contribution of E.D.Schulze to a 2009 high level meeting on the reform of the European Agricultural Policy (CAP) on Land use and climate change. Reformthecap.eu (vimeo, minutes) at", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}