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The OCC has a number of projects which it has publications for. Each of these projects can be found within the Activities section.

Below is list of direct links to these publications (all of which are in the PDF pdf icon format):

The Eliasch Review:
Executive summary
Full review

Forests and emissions Richard Betts, Jemma Gornall, John Hughes, Neil Kaye, Doug McNeall and Andy Wiltshire, The Met Office Hadley Centre

The cost of avoiding deforestation  Maryanne Grieg-Gran, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Technical description of the IIASA model cluster  Mykola Gusti, Petr Havlik and Michael Obersteiner, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Estimating the cost of building capacity in rainforest nations to allow them to participate in a global REDD mechanism  Alison Hoare, Thomas Legge, Ruth Nussbaum and Jade Saunders, Chatham House, ProForest, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), EcoSecurities

Rapid forest inventory and mapping: monitoring forest cover and land use change  Justin Moat, Charlotte Crouch, William Milliken, Paul Smith, Martin Hamilton and Susana Baena,The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Mapping vulnerability of tropical forest to conversion and resulting potential CO2 emissions Lera Miles, Valerie Kapos, Igor Lysenko and Alison Campbell, UNEP/WCMC

Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon Pat Hardcastle and David Baird, LTS International

Forest management impacts on ecosystem services  Todd Sajwaj, Mike Harley and Clare Parker, AEA

Updating carbon density and opportunity cost parameters in deforesting regions in the GCOMAP model Jayant Sathaye, Peter Chan, Heleico Blum, Larry Dale and Willy Makindi, Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES)

Scaling up AFOLU Mitigation Activities in Non-Annex I Countries  Penny Baalman and Bernhard Schlamadinger   Climate Strategies

Carbon absorption and storage   Miguel Franco, School of Biological Sciences, Plymouth University

Hope, C (2008) Valuing the climate change impacts of tropical deforestation, Judge Business
School, University of Cambridge

Hope, C and Castilla-Rubio, J C (2008) A first cost benefit analysis of action to reduce
deforestation
, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Standards for voluntary offsetting:
The consultation draft Code of Best Practice is available here

Further information on Offsetting is available here

Analytical Audit
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
FULL REPORT
SCIENTIFIC ANNEX
MEASUREMENT ANNEX
SECTORAL ANNEX

EU Emissions Trading Scheme
The initial analysis paper (published September 2007) on options for the future of the EU ETS (click here) has now been superceded by a more detailed Partial Impact Assessment (published May 2008) on the EU Commission's proposals to amend the EU ETS from 2013. Full details are available on Defra's website at the following here.

Global Carbon Trading Project
Terms of Reference for the Prime Minister's Special Representative on Carbon Trading

Global Technology Project
Global Technology Project Final Report 2008

Household Emissions Project
Household Emissions Report 2007

Heat Project
Call for Evidence 2008

Global Carbon Finance
Global Carbon Finance Methodology Paper


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