Given the projected increase in the demand for animal-source foods in developing countries,
trends in livestock GHG emissions and other environmental impacts, there is an urgent need
to change livestock production. Despite its significant role in global GHG emissions, the
livestock sector also ha...
Dijk, S. van
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Wilkes, Andreas
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[Climate-smart livestock sector development: the state of play in NAMA development]
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Climate-smart livestock sector development: the state of play in NAMA development
This Report was developed in the context of the “Global Dialogue on Climate Change and
Agriculture,” a project facilitated by the Meridian Institute that began in August 2010. The
Meridian Institute is an internationally recognized, nonprofit organization that facilitates
neutral and independent ...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Mann W
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Melendez-Ortiz R
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Streck, C.
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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[Addressing agriculture in climate change negotiations: A scoping report]
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Addressing agriculture in climate change negotiations: A scoping report
A significant proportion of developing countries have expressed an interest in greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation in the agriculture sector. However, compared to mitigation planning in some other sectors, progress with developing agricultural mitigation plans and the allocation of climate finance to...
Wilkes, Andreas
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Solymosi K
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[National planning for GHG mitigation in agriculture: a guidance document]
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National planning for GHG mitigation in agriculture: a guidance document
This paper develops three scenarios for the management of an existing, low productivity, collective forest plot in Southwest China: continuation of the status quo, transition to sustainable forest management (SFM), and conversion to a short rotation species for producing biomass for electricity g...
Kahrl F
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Su Y
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Wilkes, Andreas
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Xu, Jianchu
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Yan M
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[Incentives for carbon sequestration and energy production in low productivity collective forests in Southwest China]
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Incentives for carbon sequestration and energy production in low productivity collective forests in Southwest China
Over the past decade China has quietly emerged as the world’s third largest biofuel producer. Concerned over rising food prices, in June 2007 China’s central government banned the use of grain-based feedstocks for biofuel production and reoriented the country’s bioenergy plans toward perennial cr...
Weyerhaeuser, H.
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Yufang S
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Kahrl F
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[Biofuels in China: an analysis of the opportunities and challenges of Jatropha Curcas in Southwest China]
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Biofuels in China: an analysis of the opportunities and challenges of Jatropha Curcas in Southwest China
China s forest bioenergy policies are evolving against the backdrop of pressing national energy challenges similar to those faced by OECD countries, and chronic rural energy challenges more characteristic of developing countries. Modern forest bioenergy could contribute to solutions to both of th...
Kahrl F
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Su Y
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Yang Y
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Xu, Jianchu
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[Large or small? Rethinking China s forest bioenergy policies]
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Large or small? Rethinking China s forest bioenergy policies