Importance of Cross-Sector Interactions When Projecting Forest Carbon across Alternative Socioeconomic Futures.

ABSTRACT: In recent decades, the carbon sink provided by the U.S. forest sector has offset a sizable portion of domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the future, the magnitude of this sink has important implications not only for projected U.S. net GHG emissions under a reference case but also for the cost of achieving a given mitigation target. The larger the contribution of the forest sector towards reducing net GHG emissions, the less mitigation is needed from other sectors. Conversely, if the forest sector begins to contribute a smaller sink, or even becomes a net source, mitigation requirements from other sectors may need to become more stringent and costlier to achieve economy wide emissions targets. There is acknowledged uncertainty in estimates of the carbon sink provided by the U.S. fo

SUBMITTER: Jones JPH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7147782 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature