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Environmental implications of land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) under a future climate convention
Project
Project code: TI-WO-08-PID1574
Contract period: 01.11.2012
- 31.08.2015
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
To still meet the 2-degree limit of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the reduction of emissions from industry and energy industry is not sufficient alone. Emissions from deforestation, especially in the tropics, and unsustainable land uses worldwide are a crucial greenhousegas source.
The project also analysis Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) of relevant countries regarding the role of the LULUCF sector.
The parties to the UNFCCC are currently negotiating a new international agreement, which should enter into force in 2020 and is applicable to both, industrialized and developing countries. Our research project, which is funded by the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA), advises members of the German Delegation involved in land sector negotiations. The project includes the compilation of relevant policy instruments and approaches that can influence carbon fluxes in the forestry and wood sector. We want to identify options for land use rules regarding emission reporting and accounting, and analyze and evaluate if these options appear realisable to all parties under the new climate agreement. The investigated options must be environmentally sound, technically feasible and politically viable. Further they need to provide incentives for the protection of carbon reservoirs and for the promotion of carbon sinks in the land use sector.
The Thünen-Institute of Forest Ecology and Forest Inventory (Eberswalde) focuses within this project on the climate effect of different accounting rules for industrialised countries. The Thünen-Institute for International Forestry and Forest Economics focuses on forests in developing countries. The Thünen-Institute for Wood Research deals with the effects of wood recycling on the carbon balance.
The project contents are closely linked to recent developments in UNFCCC negotiations, and consider both official negotiations as well as informal discussions. In addition to evaluating negotiation positions of parties and publications of relevant players, we calculate and analyse the potential development of forest related emissions until 2030 with and without a new climate agreement. On this basis, we make recommendations for the design of the new climate agreement.
While for most industrialized parties comprehensive emission data for forest activities as well as wood recycling exist from current reporting requirements, this is not the case for developing countries. Here, existing data on forest inventory and forest development must be used, for example, of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (FAO FRA2010, FAOStat). On this data basis and with existing calculation rules we estimate past and future emissions from deforestation.
Section overview
Subjects
- Forestry
- Agroecology
- Climate Change
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Associated projects: LULUCF- Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry
- Estimating net-emissions from carbon storage in Harvested Wood Products
- Influence of land-use change on soil carbon stocks of temperate and tropical agrar ecosystems
- Ouantification of uncertainties of land use mapping by high resoluted CIR - air born pictures for improvement of the German LULUC inventory
- Ploughing up of grassland, ploughing and reseeding of grassland, grassland establishment
- Joint research project “Organic soils” – Acquisition and development of methods, activity data and emission factors for the climate reporting under LULUCF/AFOLU
- Environmental Implications of Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) under a Future Climate Regime
- Environmental impacts of Land use,Land-use change and Forestry (LULUCF) under a future climate regime
- Environmental Implications of Land Use, Land-Use Change an Forestry (LULUCF) under a Future Climate Regime
