Associated Research

Various complementary research activities have been carried out alongside the project, to answer some key questions relating to the feasibility of large scale carbon sequestration programmes; these include:

• studies of carbon fluxes associated with land use change, involving direct measurement of biomass in different types of vegetation (funded by the US EPA and the Mexican Government);
• development of appropriate protocols for community forestry planning and administration of carbon sequestration schemes (funded by the UK Government’s Forestry Research Programme);
• research of the cost and potential for large-scale carbon sequestration in southern Mexico, using economic models and geographic information such as satellite images (funded by the International Energy Agency - Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme);
• research into the development of regional carbon baselines through an analysis of trends in land use change and socio-economic driving factors of deforestation (funded by the UK Government’s Forestry Research Programme).