Carbon sequestration climate effects

Harvey, L.D.D., Declining temporal effectiveness of carbon sequestration, implications for compliance with the United National framework convention on climate change, Climate Change, 63(3), 259,2004. 

Stavins and Richards (2005) find that biologic carbon sequestration is also a cost-effective strategy that could be part of a climate mitigation regime. In cases where it may be difficult to measure total mass emissions from these sources but relatively easy to measure emission reductions (e.g., reductions of methane from a landfill) these sources might be captured with project-level offset provisions rather than through inclusion in the cap-and-trade program (U.S. EPA 2003). 

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