Essays about: "GHG Protocol"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 32 essays containing the words GHG Protocol.

  1. 26. Carbon offset management : worth considering when investing for reforestation CDM

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Products

    Author : Arvid Eriksson; [2010]
    Keywords : CDM; forestry; Kyoto; reforestation; afforestation; China; Guangxi; Kyoto protocol;

    Abstract : The idea for this project was initiated together with one of the leaders in the forest, paper and packaging industry. To get through an A/R CDM process the company is exposed to the risk of failing the process or that the overall costs will exceed the benefits of the project. READ MORE

  3. 27. Investment in project preventing deforestation of the Brazilian Amazonas

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Products

    Author : Pär Hansson; [2009]
    Keywords : REDD; CDM; transaction-costs; carbon offset; GHG; Kyoto Protocol; CSR; deforestation;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to create an understanding of the incentives for forest companies to invest in reducing carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, which is termed REDD. The Brazilian Amazonas was chosen as the base for the investment case. READ MORE

  4. 28. Forestry and climate change mitigation : climate change mitigation potential for different rotation lengths in Norway spruce forests, Götaland, Sweden with a short and a long term perspective

    University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

    Author : Gustaf Gustafsson; [2009]
    Keywords : rotation age; net emission CO2; carbon dioxide sink; time horizon; CO2FIX V 3.1; climate change; forest management; Kyoto protocol;

    Abstract : During the last year the awareness about the anthropogenic induced climate change due to increasing level of Green House Gases (GHGs), like for example carbon dioxide (CO2) has increased drastically. The atmospheric content of CO2 which is the GHG that the forest sector mainly can influence has increased from 280 ppm pre-industrial time (1750) to 379 ppm 2005. READ MORE

  5. 29. Analysing climate effect of agriculture and forestry in southern Sweden at Högestad & Christinehof Estate

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Robert Paulsson; [2008]
    Keywords : climate effect; geography. physical geography; agriculture; forestry; southern Sweden; Högestad Christinehof Estate; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) estimates global warming caused by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) to 1.1-6.4 º C in the year 2100. Agriculture is the source of 10-12 % of the global GHG emissions. READ MORE

  6. 30. The Possibility and Effects of Including the Transport Sector in the EU Emission Trading Scheme

    University essay from Institutionen för konstruktions- och produktionsteknik

    Author : Daniel Eckerhall; [2005]
    Keywords : EU Emission Trading Scheme; Transport Sector; Greenhouse Gases; Carbon Dioxide; Kyoto Protocol; Flexible Mechanisms;

    Abstract : The European Union has initiated a scheme for trading with CO2 emission allowances as a measure to reduce greenhouse gas emission levels. Since January 2005 companies from certain energy demanding sectors, responsible for approximately 50 % of the total CO2 emissions in the EU, are participating in this scheme, the so called EU Emission Trading Scheme. READ MORE