The leaky sink: Persistent obstacles to a forest carbon sequestration program based on individual projects

Climate Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-54

  Richards, Kenneth ^a   Andersson, Krister ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration projects; Clean development mechanism; Kyoto protocol

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002040895     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1469-3062(00)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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