Focus on the role of forests and soils in meeting climate change mitigation goals: summary
Open Access
- 14 January 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Environmental Research Letters
- Vol. 15 (4), 045009
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6b38
Abstract
It is clear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone are insufficient to avoid large global temperature increases. It is also clear that to avoid atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases that result in dangerous alterations of the climate, large reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion and land use changes must be accompanied by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide sequestration. Natural Climate Solutions have become a major focus of climate policy. Land and ocean ecosystems remove and store atmospheric carbon, and forests play a major role. This focus collection includes papers that address three important aspects of the role for forests in meeting climate change mitigation goals: (i) Carbon Accounting of forest sinks and reservoirs, process emissions and carbon storage in forest products, (ii) the carbon dioxide dynamics of using Forest Bioenergy and (iii) the carbon cycle of Tropical Forests.Funding Information
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NNX17AG51G)
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