Open AccessFocus on the role of forests and soils in meeting climate change mitigation goals: summary
Author(s) -
William R. Moomaw,
B. E. Law,
Scott J. Goetz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
environmental research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.37
H-Index - 124
ISSN - 1748-9326
DOI - 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6b38
Subject(s) - environmental science , greenhouse gas , carbon sequestration , climate change , carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere , climate change mitigation , carbon dioxide , atmospheric carbon cycle , carbon cycle , greenhouse gas removal , land use, land use change and forestry , global warming , bio energy with carbon capture and storage , fossil fuel , environmental protection , carbon sink , ecosystem , land use , ecology , biology
It is clear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone is insufficient to avoid large global temperature increases. 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 .