CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Soo, Carly |
|---|---|
| Title | Seeing the Carbon Beyond the Trees: Evaluating the Land use, Land-use Change, and forestry (LULUCF) pledges in countries Nationally Determined Contributions |
| Summary | The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), submitted as part of the Paris Agreement provide an opportunity to assess countries’ climate actions and ambitions. An important sector is land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF), acting as both a sink and source of emissions. The LULUCF sector is expected to make a significant contribution to helping countries meet their mitigation targets and is included in most NDCs. This research assesses 166 NDCs to understand how countries have treated the LULUCF sector and in turn examines how the national circumstances and capabilities of countries shape their specific mitigation policies. Using approaches from forest transition literature and comparative environmental politics, this research aims to contribute to the understanding of how national circumstances and capabilities may explain variation in climate commitments between countries. It finds general linkages between how countries treat LULUCF targets within their NDCs in accordance with their stage in forest transitions and their national economic structures, however, also recommends further analysis to strengthen these findings. |
| Supervisor | Cherp, Aleh |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/soo_carly.pdf |
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