Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error

Searchinger, Timothy D.
Hamburg, Steven P.
Melillo, Jerry
Chameides, William
Havlik, Petr
Kammen, Daniel M.
Likens, Gene E.
Lubowski, Ruben N.
Obersteiner, Michael
Oppenheimer, Michael
Robertson, Philip G.
Schlesinger, William H.
Tilman, David G.

¹Princeton University, Princeton, N] 08544, USA. ²Environmental Defense Fund, Boston, MA 02108, and Washington, DC 20009, USA. ³Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. ⁴Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. ⁵International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg 2361, Austria. ⁶University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. ⁷Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA. ⁸Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA. ⁹University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
^*Authors for correspondence. E-mail: [email protected] (S.P.H.); [email protected] (T.D.S.).

10.1126/science.1178797

Supporting Online Material

www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5952/527/DC1

Science 326(5952):p 527-528, October 23, 2009.

Rules for applying the Kyoto Protocol and national cap-and-trade laws contain a major, but fixable, carbon accounting flaw in assessing bioenergy.