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Agriculture and land use change, particularly deforestation of tropical forests, contribute much to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and are expected to remain important during the twenty-first century. Current policy regimes, however, such as the EU ETS only cover the energy sector and also focus only on CO2 emissions. In this chapter, we present historic, current and potential GHG emissions from agriculture and deforestation and discuss mitigation potentials and costs within these two sectors. Finally, we characterise potential co-benefits and risks of including these sectors in a comprehensive mitigation scheme.
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Popp, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Vohland, K. (2012). Land Use Management for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation. In: Edenhofer, O., Wallacher, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Reder, M., Knopf, B., Müller, J. (eds) Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4540-7_14
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