Reconsidering Approaches for Land Use to Mitigate Climate Change and to Promote Sustainable Development Arthur Riedacker

The ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and therefore also of the Kyoto Protocol, is to stabilize GHG concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climatic system in order (1) to allow natural adaptation of ecosystems, (2) to not threaten food production and (3) to allow economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner (Article 2).