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Law and Economics of International Climate Change Policy pp 21–54Cite as

Accounting of Biological Sources and Sinks

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A recently released newsletter of Climate Action Network, an international environmental pressure group, portrays Kyoto negotiators desperately seeking the truth of carbon uptake by measuring tree volumes in a forest (Singer, S., 1998). Another environmental publication depicts biological sources and sinks as the second largest “loophole” of the Kyoto Protocol, nearly the size of “hot air”, which would lower the actually achieved emission reductions by one-third (Institute for Global Communications, 1998). Yet another environmental release argues that the Kyoto protocol creates “a significant new opportunity to capture the value of biodiversity, carbon storage and other ecosystem services of forests” (Frummhof, P.C. et al., 1998). Opinions couldn’t possibly differ more! Indeed, no other Kyoto issue has met such a mixed reception as the accounting of biological sources and sinks.

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Schwarze, R. (2001). Accounting of Biological Sources and Sinks. In: Law and Economics of International Climate Change Policy. Environment & Policy, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2047-2_3

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