Die Forstwirtschaft in der internationalen Klimapolitik

2000

S. 691-696

29 Lit. Ang.

Unselbständiges Werk

200071114

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into force in 1995. Its main objective is the stabilization of greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere at a level that prevents dangerous interference with the climate system. As an initial step towards reaching this objective, the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997. It is the first international legal framework that includes binding obligations for countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol provides that one industrialized county can invest in measures in another industrialized or developing country and thus claim credits for an achieved CO2-emission reduction. This may have significant economic consequences for the forest and timber industry yet in the current decade as forest and forestry offer a variety of possibilities to reduce net CO2 emissions such as forest protection to avoid the loss of carbon stocks through forest degradation or deforestation; increasing carbon stocks through improved sustainable forest management, afforestation for reforestation; increasing the carbon stored in long-lived wood products; and using wood for energy and raw material to displace the use of fossil fuels and other, often more energy-intensive, materials.