ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to identify “low-hanging fruits” for agricultural and forestry-based climate change mitigation in the Amazon region and derive implications for mitigation initiatives. Mitigation potential, especially in the forestry sector, looms large. Niles et al. (2002) estimate for Latin America that forest restoration and avoided deforestation together could result in up to 128 Mt of carbon emission reductions annually (68% of the world total) as opposed to 9.3 Mt through sustainable agricultural change (see chapters by Minang et al. and Gockowski and Van Asten for examples from Africa).
