The potential impact of the uncertainty on final estimates of net carbon removal or storage duration: negligible, low, medium, high, or very high.
Any emissions associated with market effects as a result of feedstock demand must be considered. For example, paying farmers for agricultural waste will likely increase the profitability of their operations and could result in an increase in acres planted. Directly growing crops or creating plantations could displace food production onto other lands and contribute to deforestation. Estimating the system emissions resulting from new feedstock demand will likely be difficult in practice and require careful economic modeling that reflects the overall scale of new biomass demand.
Edited for cross-pathway consitency during a round of updates and pathway additions. Changed name from Indirect land use change to Market effects, and edited component text to clarify that there are both direct and indirect market effects that could affect the calculation of net carbon removal achieved.
Sep 19 2022
First release.
Market effects
Uncertainty
The potential impact of the uncertainty on final estimates of net carbon removal or storage duration: negligible, low, medium, high, or very high.
Any emissions associated with market effects as a result of feedstock demand must be considered. For example, paying farmers for agricultural waste will likely increase the profitability of their operations and could result in an increase in acres planted. Directly growing crops or creating plantations could displace food production onto other lands and contribute to deforestation. Estimating the system emissions resulting from new feedstock demand will likely be difficult in practice and require careful economic modeling that reflects the overall scale of new biomass demand.
Edited for cross-pathway consitency during a round of updates and pathway additions. Changed name from Indirect land use change to Market effects, and edited component text to clarify that there are both direct and indirect market effects that could affect the calculation of net carbon removal achieved.