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Inter-Crops-Allocation (ICA) of CO2 Emissions from Land Use Change

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  • Elisa Dunkelberg

    (Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOEW), Germany)

  • Matthias Finkbeiner

    (Chair of Sustainable Engineering, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany)

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The quantification of CO2 emissions from indirect land use change (ILUC) is proposed by some stakeholders for the inclusion in carbon footprints (CF) of biofuels. The ILUC concept does not appropriately consider so far that each ILUC of a biofuel is direct land use change (DLUC) of another product. This leads to either double counting or free-rider incentives. The articles purpose is to introduce and test inter-crops-allocation (ICA); this new approach allocates CO2 emissions from natural ecosystem conversion between all agricultural activities responsible for the land use change - be it directly or indirectly.

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  • Elisa Dunkelberg & Matthias Finkbeiner, 2019. "Inter-Crops-Allocation (ICA) of CO2 Emissions from Land Use Change," International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 18(1), pages 20-27, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:ijesnr:v:18:y:2019:i:1:p:20-27
    DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2019.18.555979
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