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IPS WP 08/01 - Commercial forestry and LULUCF for a “carbon neutral New Zealand”: the “Leaky Bucket””

This note

  1. shows that commercial forestry can very easily secure carbon neutral New Zealand by 2022 (and sooner in combination with other likely measures).

  2. proposes a “leaky bucket” framework for the post-2012 LULUCF* regime to secure the most benefit for ‘N.Z. Inc.’ from expanded commercial forestry and other land use improvements

  3. discusses the geopolitical merits of a LULUCF regime focused on Biosphere Carbon Stock Management (BCSM) a strategy advanced in my editorial essay in Climatic Change of that title, forthcoming in print in April and available electronically since 29.x.2007 at http://www.springerlink.com/content/rt798740226381q8/fulltext.pdf

This note has its origin in a series of round table discussions on the topic of Climate policy conducted under the auspices of the Institute of Policy Studies of the Victoria University of Wellington in the winter of 2007, under ‘Chatham House Rules.  This version of the paper has been edited to delete references to other participants, in accordance with those Rules.

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Published in 2008

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