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What are the options and measures that could significantly affect the North American carbon cycle?

Haites, E., Caldeira, K., Romero Lankao, P., Rose, A., & Wilbanks, T. (2007). What are the options and measures that could significantly affect the North American carbon cycle? In A. W. King, L. Dilling, G. P. Zimmerman, D. M. Fairman, R. A. Houghton, G. Marland, … T. J. Wilbanks (Eds.), The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle (pp. 37-49). Washington: U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

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This chapter provides an overview of options that can reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions and those that can enhance carbon sinks, and it attempts to compare them. Finally, it discusses policies to encourage implementation of source reduction and sink enhancement options. No e... Show moreThis chapter provides an overview of options that can reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions and those that can enhance carbon sinks, and it attempts to compare them. Finally, it discusses policies to encourage implementation of source reduction and sink enhancement options. No emission reduction or sink enhancement target is proposed, and no policy or option is recommended. Show less

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