HR: 1340h
AN: PA23A-1443    [Abstracts]
TI: Community-based carbon sequestration in East Africa: Linking science and sustainability
AU: * Hultman, N E
EM: neh3@georgetown.edu
AF: Center for Environment, Program in Science, Technology, and Intl Affairs Intercultural Center 305-Q Georgetown University, Washington, DC 200057 United States
AB: International agreements on climate change have set the stage for an expanding market for greenhouse gas emissions reduction credits. Projects that can generate credits for trading are diverse, but one of the more controversial types involve biological carbon sequestration. For several reasons, most of the activity on these "sinks" projects has been in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Yet people in sub-saharan Africa could benefit from properly implemented projects. This poster will discuss estimates of the potential and risks of such projects in East Africa, and will describe in detail a case study located in central Tanzania and now part of the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund portfolio. Understanding climate variability and risk can effectively link international agreements on climate change, local realities of individual projects, and the characteristics of targeted ecosystems.
DE: 9305 Africa
DE: 4806 Carbon cycling
DE: 6300 POLICY SCIENCES
DE: 6620 Science policy
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
SC: Public Affairs [PA]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting