In cooperation with the USAID Global Climate Change team, Winrock International has developed a set of simple, user-friendly, web-based calculation tools titled the ‘Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) Carbon Calculator’. This calculator is designed to give USAID Missions and implementing partners an easy way to comply with USAID’s policy of mainstreaming carbon dioxide (CO2) as an Agency-wide indicator. The Calculator uses sound and transparent science to produce yearly estimates of avoided and/or sequestered greenhouse gas (GHGs)1emissions, reported in tons of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e). It also projects these benefits forward through time to assist in setting targets. The Calculator is not designed to provide the level of accuracy needed for carbon financing, but may provide an early indication of areas which have potential for such financing.
Keywords: Agriculture, Agroforestry, Carbon, Data collection, Datasets, Degradation, Forest resources, Livestock, Mangroves, Sustainable land management
Category: Economics & Finance, Monitoring & Evaluation
Type: Repository of data
Scale: National
Dimension: Ecological, Socioeconomic
Organization: USAID - United States Agency for International Development
Year of publication: 2014