Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Forests, Agricultural Lands and Wetlands in the Nordic Countries: Technical Measures and Policy Instruments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Forests, Agricultural Lands and Wetlands in the Nordic Countries: Technical Measures and Policy Instruments write by Nainggolan, Doan. This book was released on 2021-09-29. Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Forests, Agricultural Lands and Wetlands in the Nordic Countries: Technical Measures and Policy Instruments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-537/ The project reviews a range of relevant land-use measures, their climate mitigation effects and the associated policy instruments, with a focus on Denmark, Finland and Sweden. It identifies alternative policy instruments that can be introduced to further augment carbon sequestration in the LULUCF sector in the Nordic countries. Key findings of the project are 1) Several land-use measures relevant for climate mitigation exist (e.g. measures on organic soils, afforestation) although the implementations are rarely explicitly driven by climate goals; 2) Policy instruments are currently limited and less diverse in their forms; 3) Alternative policy instruments include performance based incentive mechanisms, carbon rent approach, and market based instruments. Follow-up research is needed to support, incentivize and augment climate mitigation in the LULUCF sector in the Nordic region.
Municipalities can contribute to the strengthening of carbon sinks
Municipalities can contribute to the strengthening of carbon sinks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Municipalities can contribute to the strengthening of carbon sinks write by Hildén, Mikael. This book was released on . Municipalities can contribute to the strengthening of carbon sinks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Available online: https://pub.norden.org/nord2023-035/ A carbon sink is created when the carbon uptake of plants, especially trees and forests is greater than the emissions of carbon from plants, soil, land use and land use change. Sinks help in mitigate climate change. Municipalities that strive to reach carbon neutrality need to strengthen carbon sinks, but this requires active engagement. Key challenges are related to land use and land use change. A first step is to make an inventory of the sinks that can be used in informing landowners and guiding municipal activities. The spatial resolution of national inventories of sinks should be developed to provide municipalities with useful information as detailed measurements cannot be carried out everywhere. Better information on sinks and factors affecting them would encourage joint work across municipalities and cooperation between municipalities, landowners, and other stakeholders.
Carbon Sequestration in Forests
Carbon Sequestration in Forests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carbon Sequestration in Forests write by Ross W. Gorte. This book was released on 2009. Carbon Sequestration in Forests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contents: (1) Background: Congressional Interest in Carbon Sequestration; (2) Carbon Cycling in Forests: The Forest Cycle; Forest Types: Tropical Forests; Temperate Forests; Boreal Forests; (3) Measuring and Altering Forest Carbon Levels: Forest Carbon Accounting; Land Use Changes; Forestry Events and Management Activities: Vegetation and Soil Carbon; Forest Events ¿ Wildfires; Forestry Practices; Wood Energy; Leakage: Land Use Leakage; Product Demand Leakage; Federal Government Programs: Federal Forests; Federal Assistance for State and Private Forestry; Federal Tax Expenditures; Federal Programs Affecting Land Use; Accounting for Forest Carbon Sequestration; (4) Conclusions. Table.
Policy brief: Nitrogen budgets and the link to carbon sequestration in the Nordic forests
Policy brief: Nitrogen budgets and the link to carbon sequestration in the Nordic forests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Policy brief: Nitrogen budgets and the link to carbon sequestration in the Nordic forests write by Moldan, Filip. This book was released on 2021-12-21. Policy brief: Nitrogen budgets and the link to carbon sequestration in the Nordic forests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-554/ We have quantified annual changes of N stocks in forests in Sweden, Finland, Norway and in Denmark in two independent ways. First, we quantified major inflows (atmospheric deposition and biological N fixation) and outflows (leaching of N to runoff and tree harvest). The N outflows were between 70% and 130% of the N inflows, not indicating major loss or build-up of organic matter in any of the four countries. Then we calculated N stock change in forests based on annual C stock changes reported to UNFCCC and known C/N ratios. All four countries report annual increase of forest C stocks. The sources of N to make the C stock increase possible have not been identified in the N budgets based on inflows and outflows. The discrepancy between forest N and C budgets raises the question of the consistency between reported N and C flows and stock changes.
Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context
Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context write by Alexandra Barthelmes. This book was released on 2015-06-09. Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peatlands in the Nordic Baltic region and elsewhere in the world store large amounts of carbon and are at the same time important for conservation of biodiversity. Thus peatlands are space-effective carbon stocks, but when drained carbon and nitrogen are released as greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and as nitrate to the surface water, while methane will be released when rewetting. New knowledge reveals that one of the most efficient means to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere are the restoration of drained peatlands by reestablish former high water tables on organic soils.This project on synergies between climate change mitigation and the restoration of peatlands has been conducted under a regional Ramsar initiative covering the Nordic and Baltic countries (NorBalWet), with support from the Nordic Council of Ministers. The report contains chapters on peatlands and their role in climate change mitigation, individual country chapters and the role of the Ramsar Convention.
