DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12635
论文题名: A method for calculating a land-use change carbon footprint (LUC-CFP) for agricultural commodities - applications to Brazilian beef and soy, Indonesian palm oil
作者: Persson U.M. ; Henders S. ; Cederberg C.
刊名: Global Change Biology
ISSN: 13541013
出版年: 2014
卷: 20, 期: 11 起始页码: 3482
结束页码: 3491
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Beef
; Brazil
; Carbon footprint
; Deforestation
; Indonesia
; Land-use change
; Palm oil
; Soybeans
Scopus关键词: Glycine max
; palm oil
; vegetable oil
; agriculture
; Brazil
; carbon footprint
; climate change
; environmental protection
; Indonesia
; meat
; procedures
; soybean
; Agriculture
; Brazil
; Carbon Footprint
; Climate Change
; Conservation of Natural Resources
; Indonesia
; Meat
; Plant Oils
; Soybeans
英文摘要: The world's agricultural system has come under increasing scrutiny recently as an important driver of global climate change, creating a demand for indicators that estimate the climatic impacts of agricultural commodities. Such carbon footprints, however, have in most cases excluded emissions from land-use change and the proposed methodologies for including this significant emissions source suffer from different shortcomings. Here, we propose a new methodology for calculating land-use change carbon footprints for agricultural commodities and illustrate this methodology by applying it to three of the most prominent agricultural commodities driving tropical deforestation: Brazilian beef and soybeans, and Indonesian palm oil. We estimate land-use change carbon footprints in 2010 to be 66 tCO2/t meat (carcass weight) for Brazilian beef, 0.89 tCO2/t for Brazilian soybeans, and 7.5 tCO2/t for Indonesian palm oil, using a 10 year amortization period. The main advantage of the proposed methodology is its flexibility: it can be applied in a tiered approach, using detailed data where it is available while still allowing for estimation of footprints for a broad set of countries and agricultural commodities; it can be applied at different scales, estimating both national and subnational footprints; it can be adopted to account both for direct (proximate) and indirect drivers of land-use change. It is argued that with an increasing commercialization and globalization of the drivers of land-use change, the proposed carbon footprint methodology could help leverage the power needed to alter environmentally destructive land-use practices within the global agricultural system by providing a tool for assessing the environmental impacts of production, thereby informing consumers about the impacts of consumption and incentivizing producers to become more environmentally responsible. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/62203
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作者单位: Physical Resource Theory, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden; Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Recommended Citation:
Persson U.M.,Henders S.,Cederberg C.. A method for calculating a land-use change carbon footprint (LUC-CFP) for agricultural commodities - applications to Brazilian beef and soy, Indonesian palm oil[J]. Global Change Biology,2014-01-01,20(11)