Biodiversity and Other Co-effects

The potential effects of carbon-sequestering practices in agriculture and forestry on biodiversity have received considerable attention. Provided here are a small number of references where these co-effects have been examined.

• IPCC (2002) Technical Paper V on Climate Change and Biodiversity (PDF, 86 pp., 1.1 MB, About PDF) provides information on the potential biodiversity effects of different sequestration practices.
  
  
• Frumhoff, P.C., D.C. Goetze and J.J. Hardner (1998) Linking Solutions to Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss Through the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism. Briefing Paper from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
  
  
• Presentation by Dr. Andrew Plantinga, Modeling the Impacts of Forest Carbon Sequestration on Biodiversity, (Powerpoint) presented at the joint EPA-USDA 2002 agricultural and forestry Greenhouse Gas Modeling Forum.

In addition to water quality and biodiversity effects, greenhouse gas mitigation strategies in agriculture and forestry may affect, and be affected by, activities targeted towards other environmental and societal services. References here address some of these other co-effects.

• IPCC (2000) Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (chapter 2) provides a general discussion of the ancillary environmental and societal effects of sequestration practices.
  
  
• Sathaye, J.A., K. Andrasko, W. Makundi et al. (1998) Concerns About Climate Change Mitigation Projects: Summary of Findings from Case Studies in Brazil, India, Mexico, and South Africa. Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL-41403.(PDF, 31 pp., 75 KB, About PDF)

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