Abstract
For tropical forest carbon to be commoditized, a consistent, globally verifiable system for reporting and monitoring carbon stocks and emissions must be achieved. We call for a global airborne LiDAR campaign that will measure the 3-D structure of each hectare of forested (and formerly forested) land in the tropics. We believe such a database could be assembled for only 5% of funding already pledged to offset tropical forest carbon emissions.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 7 |
Journal | Carbon Balance and Management |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs |
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State | Published - Sep 3 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Global and Planetary Change
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)