Agricultural and forestry land use causes nearly a quarter of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing these emissions entails significant challenges: simply quantifying land-use emissions and, further, determining who is responsible for taking action are both highly complex problems. This project develops an interdisciplinary analytical framework for attributing land-use emissions and setting emission reduction targets at the commodity, company and country level in an integrated manner.
The research comprises:
- attributing spatio-temporally explicit land-use emissions to commodities and
- tracing commodities through supply chains and international trade to attribute emissions to company and country actors.
The integration of levels will allow to consider direct and indirect drivers of land-use emissions, reflect the spatio-temporal interactions of land use and links between levels, and include relevant corporate and state actors when defining emission reduction targets. The project aims to provide insights into who is responsible for land-use emissions and where efforts to reduce these emissions can be targeted.
