EU Science for Environment Policy

The evidence presented shows that as much as agricultural productivity and effective policies of reforestation and forest protection have contributed to increased forest areas in countries such as Costa Rica, Vietnam and China, these countries have made this transition by increasing their imports of agricultural and forestry products from other countries, thus displacing their land use and transferring their emissions to export countries. This carbon ‘footprint’ needs to be accounted for, so that efforts to reduce global emissions through land use are not rendered counterproductive. Read full article (PDF) from the European Commission’s Science for Environment Policy News Alert Service.
This research work is supported by the European Union and the Norwegian Development Agency. Click here for a related story on the ASB website. Download ASB policy brief: Emissions Embodied in Trade (EET) and Land use in Tropical Forest Margins (PDF). Read More