
GHG-MANAGE
Managing and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and
Carbon Sequestration in Different Landscape Mosaics
Different landscape mosaics contribute an as yet poorly
quantified contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon sequestration,
as well as having an uncertain direct warming effect through variations in
their surface properties thereby limiting our ability to implement mitigation
measures at the farm scale. In this project we aim to assess the GHG
characteristics and surface-related warming effects of the most relevant
European landscape types and examine the optimum configuration of different
land uses and management interventions, including afforestation-related GHG
offsetting, to minimise or reduce GHG emissions. We will provide information
that can be utilised for on-farm reporting tools, including an economic tool
and the Cool Farm Tool (CFT), whilst also using this information to both refine
and increase the utility of these approaches, particularly in relation to CH
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and N2O exchange and for organic soils. Important compensation mechanisms will
be quantified and their impact on regional to national scale GHG emissions and
soil carbon stocks assessed. Finally, appropriate methodologies to report and
verify the effects of landscape scale GHG emission compensation mechanisms,
both top-down and bottom-up, will be developed and assessed.
Coordinator
University College Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Bruce Osborne
Email: bruce.osborne[at]ucd.ie
Project partners
Helmholtz Center Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany
Institut National de Recherche en Agronomie(INRA), France
Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Teagasc, Ireland
Total requested funding
1.229.000 €
Project duration
36 months
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Last updated: 6 December 2017