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Julia Bognar
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Sustainable carbon cycles
The global carbon cycle is made up of carbon reservoirs (stocks) and the dynamic transfer of carbon between them (fluxes).
While the majority of carbon on the earth’s surface is stored in glacial deposits and minerals, fossil fuels and deep in the oceans, carbon is also stored in soil, trees, and plants. Agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) are a significant net source of GHG emissions but also have high potential to remove and store carbon.
Activities in the AFOLU sector that decrease emissions, and help halt the loss of carbon stocks, whilst increasing the removal of GHGs from the atmosphere are necessary to establish sustainable carbon cycles and mitigate climate change.
Our priorities
To examine land management practices that can mitigate climate change, improve climate resilience and contribute to keeping the global mean temperature below 2°C.
To integrate considerations of the permanence of carbon removals into policy and to treat protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services as equal objectives within carbon farming initiatives and potential carbon removal certification schemes.
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Approximately 13.2% of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions can be directly attributed to agricultural activity, with estimates climbing even higher when emissions from on-farm ...
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This report provides inspiration for stakeholders in Central Eastern European countries to pursue a more holistic and coordinated approach for transitioning towards climate friendly agri-food ...
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An emissions trading system (ETS) for agriculture can provide financial incentives for farmers to adopt more climate-friendly practices. For an on-farm ETS this mainly depends ...
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This report presents an overview of ongoing and recently completed EU projects which promote innovation in carbon farming. ...
IEEP and Nova-Institute were asked by WWF and Mondi to undertake a mapping study to understand and interpret concepts of cascading use of wood products ...
Increasing the use of biofuels is likely to be one of the many options that will be taken up in order to reduce transport’s carbon ...
