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Brandão M, Kirschbaum MUF, Cowie AL, Hjuler SV (2019). Quantifying the climate change effects of bioenergy systems: comparison of 15 impact-assessment methods across three case studies. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 11: 727–743.  Abstract or Full text

Kirschbaum, M.U.F. (2017). Assessing the merits of bioenergy by estimation marginal climate-change impacts. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 22: 841–852.  Abstract or Full text

Kirschbaum, M.U.F. (2014). Climate Change Impact Potentials as an alternative to Global Warming Potentials. Environmental Research Letters 9: Article #034014.  Abstract or Full text

Brandão, M., Levasseur, A., Kirschbaum, M.U.F., Weidema, B.P., Cowie, A.L., Vedel Jorgensen, S., Hauschild, M.Z., Pennington, D.W., Chomkhamsri, K. (2013). Key issues and options in accounting for carbon sequestration and temporary storage in life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 18: 230-240.  Abstract

Cowie, A.L., Kirschbaum, M.U.F., Ward, M. (2007). Options for including all lands in a future greenhouse gas accounting framework. Environmental Science and Policy 10: 306-321. Abstract

Schlamadinger, B., Bird, N., Johns, T., Brown, S., Canadell, J., Ciccarese, L., Dutschke, M., Fiedler, J., Fischlin, A., Fearnside, P., Forner, C., Freibauer, A., Frumhoff, P., Hoehne, N., Kirschbaum, M.U.F., Labat, A., Marland, G., Michaelowa, A., Montanarella, L., Moutinho, P., Murdiyarso, D., Pena, N., Pingoud, K., Rakonczay, Z., Rametsteiner, E., Rock, J., Sanz, M.J., Schneider, U., Shivdenko, A., Skutsch, M., Smith, P., Somogyi, Z., Trines, E., Ward, M., Yamagata, Y. (2007). Options for including LULUCF activities in a post-2012 international climate agreement. Part I – Synopsis of LULUCF under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords and criteria for assessing a future agreement. Environmental Science and Policy 10: 271-282. Abstract

Canadell, J.G., Kirschbaum, M.U.F., Kurz, W.A., Sanz, M.-J., Schlamadinger, B., Yamagata, Y. (2007). Factoring out natural and indirect human effects on terrestrial carbon sources and sinks. Environmental Science and Policy 10: 370-384. Abstract

Kirschbaum, M.U.F. (2006). Temporary carbon sequestration cannot prevent climate change.  Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change  11: 1151-1164. Abstract or Draft paper (230 kB).

Kirschbaum, M.U.F. and Cowie, A.L. (2004). Giving credit where credit is due. A practical method to distinguish between human and natural factors in carbon accounting. Climatic Change  67: 417 - 436. Abstract.

Kirschbaum, M.U.F. (2003). Can trees buy time? An assessment of the role of vegetation sinks as part of the global carbon cycle.  Climatic Change 58: 47-71. Abstract

Kirschbaum, M.U.F. (2003). To sink or burn? A discussion of the potential contributions of forests to greenhouse gas balances through storing carbon or providing biofuels. Biomass and Bioenergy 24: 297-310. Abstract.

Schlamadinger, B., Obersteiner, M., Michaelowa, A., Grubb, M., Azar, C., Yamagata, Y., Goldberg, D., Read, P., Kirschbaum, M.U.F., Fearnside, P.M., Sugiyama, T.,  Rametsteiner, E. and Böswald, K. (2001). A cap for the market price of CO2 credits with revenue recycling into land-use projects. The Scientific World 1: 271-280.

Kirschbaum, M.U.F., Schlamadinger, B., Cannell, M.G.R., Hamburg, S.P., Karjalainen, T., Kurz, W.A., Prisley, S., Schulze, E.-D., and Singh, T.P. (2001). A generalised approach of accounting for biospheric carbon stock changes under the Kyoto Protocol. Environmental Science and Policy 4: 73-85. Abstract

Kirschbaum, M.U.F. (2000). How should forest fires be treated in the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory? Australian Forestry 63: 136-141. Abstract

Kirschbaum, M.U.F., Schlamadinger, B., Cannell, M.G.R., Karjalainen, T., Kurz, W.A., Prisley, S., Schulze, E.-D., and Singh, T.P. (2000). An alternative procedure of accounting for land-use change and forestry activities under the Kyoto Protocol. Technical Report No. 131, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products: Canberra, 19 pp. Available in PDF format (128k).

Kirschbaum, M.U.F. (2000). What contribution can tree plantations make towards meeting Australia's commitments under the Kyoto Protocol? Environmental Science and Policy 3: 83-90. Abstract

Noble, I., Apps, M., Houghton, R., Lashof, D., Makundi, W., Murdiyarso, D., Murray, B., Sombroek, W., Valentini, R., Amano, M., Fearnside, P.M., Frangi, J., Frumhoff, P., Goldberg, D., Higuchi, N., Janetos, A., Kirschbaum, M., Lasco, R., Nabuurs, G.J., Persson, R., Schlesinger, W., Shvidenko, A., Skole, D. and Smith, P. (2000). Implications of different definitions and generic issues. In: Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (Watson, R.T., Noble, I.R., Bolin, B., Ravindranath, N.H., Verardo, D.J. and Dokken, D.J., eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp 52-126.

Schlamadinger, B., Karjalainen, T., Birdsey, R., Cannell, M., Galinski, W., Gintings, A., Hamburg, S., Jallow, B., Kirschbaum, M., Krug, T., Kurz, W., Prisley, S., Schulze, D., Singh, K.D., Singh, T.P., Solomon, A.M., Villers, L., Yamagata, Y. (2000). Afforestation, reforestation, and deforestation (ARD) activities. In: Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (Watson, R.T., Noble, I.R., Bolin, B., Ravindranath, N.H., Verardo, D.J. and Dokken, D.J., eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 127-179.


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