Adaptation of agroforestry and production forestry in enhancing carbon mitigation in India.

摘要

Carbon sequestration is considered as one of the important strategies under Kyoto protocol, through sink enhancement. The Kyoto protocol potentially offers an opportunity for capital investment and technology transfer for commercial forestry, under the afforestation/reforestation activities of the clean development mechanism (CDM). Carbon sequestration through sink enhancement by way of growing more trees is one of the cost-effective modes of achieving this objective. Industrialized countries are allowed to buy carbon credits developed by carbon sequestration projects through land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) options in developing countries. As per the Kyoto protocol, annex 1 countries need to invest through LULUCF activities while determining their net GHG emissions under allowed allowances. It gives the industries, targeted for emitting GHGs the flexibility to continue using fossil fuels for some time, which will act as a buffer in the process of switching over to more efficient energy source, if they invest in sequestering carbon. It would help to achieve the goal of sustainable development throughout the world by bringing investment from developed world to developing countries. CDM projects in India could also lead to a large positive impact on programs aimed at forest conservation and regeneration, reclamation of degraded land and socio-economic development of rural communities in addition to global environmental benefits.