Quartermass
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Organisations
| Description | There is a significant potential to manage land to: a) reduce emissions from agriculture (cropped and pasture), livestock, forestry b) The so-call Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector must be managed to enhance terrestrial carbon sinks c) bioenergy supply pathways can result in net emissions to the atmosphere i.e. they are inherently carbon neutral. However, in most cases, greenhouse gas emissions reductions will occur. |
| Exploitation Route | The findings of this project have been used to parameterise global land-climate-ghg emissions modelling activities, particularly with regard to a more complete understanding of the global biogeochemical carbon cycle. |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Education Energy Environment Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Transport |
| URL | http://www.globalcalculator.org |
| Description | Versions of baseline projections and mitigation potentials for the Forest Sector produced by Forest Research, significantly supported by QUATERMASS funding, were referred to by Jim Penman during international climate change negotiations at Copenhagen in December 2009 and Cancun in December 2010. This also involved ad-hoc provision of results to meet the needs of negotiators as the meetings progressed. Following Cancun, on 13 December Jim Penman reported by email that "[Forest Research had provided] timely information [which had] helped resolve a tricky EU issue at a critical point and was material to securing an EU position for the agreement [on accounting for Forest Management]". In 2009 the QUATERMASS methodology was used to make an assessment of the potential of UK forestry to contribute to government's emissions reduction commitments. This was carried out as part of a wider assessment of the potential of the UK's trees and woodlands to mitigate and adapt to climate change. This work was presented in 2009 as the 'Read Report' (Read et al., 2009), with the UK-level analysis derived from QUATERMASS forming Chapter 8 of this report (Matthews and Broadmeadow, 2009). At the suggestion of DECC (Jim Penman) Forest Research (Robert Matthews) participated in two international workshops on the development of Forest Sector carbon balance baseline projections for the Annex I countries to the Kyoto Protocol, convened by the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra (Milan) in July and October 2009. These meetings supported the development and validation of the "JRC LULUCF tool" (see http://afoludata.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/models/JRC_LULUCF_TOOL). There has been ongoing ad-hoc communication between Forest Research (Robert Matthews) and the JRC (Giacomo Grassi) on validation of JRC tool data. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Energy,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport |
| Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |