Cross-sectoral Transfer of Responsibility for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction: Conclusions and Implications

This chapter employs the concept of the climate-energy-land nexus as a framework to summarize the findings of each chapter. It identifies the political-economic and socio-technical regimes that cause the cross-sectoral transfer of responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions to palm-oil-based biofuel, imposing an excess burden on the forest sector and accelerating indirect land-use change. The chapter then proposes and examines possible countermeasures for the agricultural and forest sectors and reconfirms that technical applications and integrated policymaking should trigger the socioeconomic changes that will make transformative change happen. The chapter concludes with an example of an innovative approach that can mitigate the cross-sectoral transfer of responsibility.