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Thanks to the sink calculations, other obligations to reduce emissions can be decreased or postponed. Thus it is possible to win more time for the introduction of further measures aiming to reduce emissions.

Thanks to the periodical recording of the carbon balance of cultivated and forest land, an awareness of the human influence on the role of the ecological system in the climatic system has become perceptible. Thus sustainable management is encouraged.

Disadvantages

By taking sinks into account, effective climate protection measures could be delayed, if the time is not used to put through measures designed to reduce emissions due to the use of fossil fuels for heating or for transport.

Sinks are only effective on a limited time scale. Every forest stops growing one day. It may be destroyed by storms or bark beetle or forest fire, or it may grow old and decay, thus becoming a source.

The quantitative recording of sinks demands a considerable outlay in time and energy and therefore means higher costs.

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