CLIMATE:
The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Implications for the Kyoto Protocol
IGBP Terrestrial Carbon Working Group
The Kyoto Protocol achieved a significant breakthrough by including terrestrial carbon sources and sinks into a legally binding emissions reduction framework. The effectiveness of the portocol can be improved by adopting a full carbon budget. Terrestrial carbon sinks are part of an active biological cycle and can offset fossil fuel emissions only temporarily, from decades to a century. They can thus buy time to address anthropogenic perturbation emissions.
*Contact authors:
Will Steffen*
IGBP Secretariat, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, S-10405 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel: (46-8) 166 648, will{at}igbp.kva.se
Ian Noble*
Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia, Tel: (61-2) 6249 5092, noble{at}rsbs.anu.edu.au
Josep Canadell*
GCTE /Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
USA, Tel: (1-650) 723 1530, jcanadel{at}leland.stanford.edu
Michael Apps*
Northern Forestry Centre, Canadian Forestry Service
5320-122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6H 355, Canada, Tel: (1-403) 435 7305, mapps{at}nofc.forestry.ca
Ernst-Detlef Schulze*
Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Sophienstrasse 10, D-07443 Jena, Germany, Tel: (49-3641) 624 011, detlef.schulze{at}bgc-jena.mpg.de
Paul G. Jarvis*
Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Edinburgh, Darwin Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JU, Scotland, UK, Tel: (44-1316) 505 426, p.jarvis{at}ed.ac.uk
Only affiliations:
Dennis Baldocchi, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, NOAA, TN, USA
Phillipe Ciais, Laboratoire Modlisation du Climat et de l'Environnement, Commissariat l'Energie Atomique, France
Wolfgang Cramer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
James Ehleringer, Department of Biology, University of Utah, UT, USA
Graham Farquhar, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Australia
Christopher B. Field, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, CA, USA
Anver Ghazi, Directorate General for Science, Research and Development, European Commission, Belgium
Roger Gifford, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, Australia
Martin Heimann, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
Richard Houghton, The Woods Hole Research Center, USA
Pavel Kabat, DLO, Winand Staring Center, The Netherlands
Christian Krner, Botanisches Institut, Universitt Basel, Switzerland
Eric Lambin, Department of Geography, Universite Catholoque de Louvain, Belgium
Sune Linder, Department of Ecology and Environmental Research, Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Harold A. Mooney, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, CA, USA
Daniel Murdiyarso, GCTE Impacts Center for Southeast Asia, SEAMEO-BIOTROP, Indonesia
Wilfred M. Post, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
I. Colin Prentice, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany
Michael R. Raupach, Division of Land and Water, CSIRO, Australia
David S. Schimel, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CO, USA
Anatoly Shvidenko, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Riccardo Valentini, Dipartamento Scienze dell'Ambiente, Universita della Tusscia, Italy
