- 10 March 2016
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 ...
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For more information
on the Land Use and Climate
programme, please contact:
Julia Bognar
Senior Policy Analyst
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 (such as carbon farming) 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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- 31 January 2011
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 ...
- 31 July 2009
IEEP Analysis Briefing: Sustainable Development
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