Yiting Wang’s research while affiliated with World Wildlife Fund and other places

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Woodfuel-related carbon offset projects registered or in the ‘pipeline’ in December 2014.
Siting of projects generating carbon offsets by reducing consumption of NRB; points are sized proportionally to the volume of C/VERs expected during the lifetime of the projects.
Mean (± standard deviation) fNRB values used in offset projects compared to range of values derived from WISDOM at the same locations.
Expected vs. estimated ERs by project (left) and aggregate overestimations of ERs by region (right). Note that both plots use logarithmic scales.
Getting the numbers right: Revisiting woodfuel sustainability in the developing world
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The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals encourage a transition to 'affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all'. To be successful, the transition requires billions of people to adopt cleaner, more efficient cooking technologies that contribute to sustainability through multiple pathways: improved air quality, reduced emissions of short-lived climate pollutants, and reduced deforestation or forest degradation. However, the latter depends entirely on the extent to which people rely on 'non-renewable biomass' (NRB). This paper compares NRB estimates from 286 carbon-offset projects in 51 countries to a recently published spatial assessment of pan-tropical woodfuel demand and supply. The existing projects expect to produce offsets equivalent to ~138 MtCO2e. However, when we apply NRB values derived from spatially explicit woodfuel demand and supply imbalances in the region of each offset project, we find that emission reductions are between 57 and 81 MtCO2e: 41%–59% lower than expected. We suggest that project developers and financiers recalibrate their expectations of the mitigation potential of woodfuel projects. Spatial approaches like the one utilized here indicate regions where interventions are more (and less) likely to reduce deforestation or degradation: for example, in woodfuel 'hotspots' in East, West, and Southern Africa as well as South Asia, where nearly 300 million people live with acute woodfuel scarcity.

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... Globally, 2.8 billion people, the world's poorest and most marginalized rural populations, use biomass to cover their daily home energy needs [52]. Biomass extraction may additionally threaten forests' potential to provide a healthy environment for people by contributing to global forest deforestation, degradation, and climate change [53,54]. The Western Himalayan region has high fuelwood demand, which has resulted in the significant degradation of forest resources near settlements [55]. ...

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Local Perceptions of Ecosystem Services and Anthropogenic Disturbances on Endangered Taxus Wallichiana: Implications for Conservation and Sustainable Management
Getting the numbers right: Revisiting woodfuel sustainability in the developing world