Impacts of climate mitigation strategies in the energy sector on global land use and carbon balance

Engström, Kerstin; Lindeskog, Mats; Olin, Stefan; Hassler, John; Smith, Benjamin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-773-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-773-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-773-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

Research article

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05 Sep 2017

Research article |

| 05 Sep 2017

Impacts of climate mitigation strategies in the energy sector on global land use and carbon balance

Kerstin Engström, Mats Lindeskog, Stefan Olin, John Hassler, and Benjamin Smith

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Final revised paper (published on 05 Sep 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 05 Aug 2016)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Ambitious but questionable approach', Page Kyle, 31 Oct 2016
- AC1: 'Response to RC1', Kerstin Engström, 03 Mar 2017
RC2: 'Review of Engstrom et al.', Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, 09 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'Response to RC2', Kerstin Engström, 03 Mar 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (15 Mar 2017) by Daniel Kirk-Davidoff

AR by Kerstin Engström on behalf of the Authors (26 Apr 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (05 May 2017) by Daniel Kirk-Davidoff

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (12 Jun 2017) by Daniel Kirk-Davidoff

AR by Kerstin Engström on behalf of the Authors (20 Jun 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

Applying a global carbon tax on fossil was shown to lead to increased bioenergy production in four out of five scenarios. Increased bioenergy production led to global cropland changes that were up to 50 % larger by 2100 compared to the reference case (without global carbon tax). For scenarios with strong cropland expansion due to high population growth coupled with low technological change or bioenergy production, the biosphere was simulated to switch from a carbon sink into a carbon source.