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Anders Lindroth

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Accounting for all territorial emissions and sinks is important for development of climate mitigation policies

Author

  • Anders Lindroth
  • Lars Tranvik

Summary, in English

The Paris agreement identifies the importance of the conservation, or better, increase of the land carbon sink. In this respect, the mitigation policies of many forest rich countries rely heavily on products from forests as well as on the land sink. Here we demonstrate that Sweden’s land sink, which is critical in order to achieve zero net emissions by 2045 and negative emissions thereafter, is reduced to less than half when accounting for emissions from wetlands, lakes and running waters. This should have implications for the development of Sweden’s mitigation policy. National as well as the emerging global inventory of sources and sinks need to consider the entire territory to allow accurate guidance of future mitigation of climate change.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2021

Language

English

Publication/Series

Carbon Balance and Management

Volume

16

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

BioMed Central (BMC)

Topic

  • Climate Research

Keywords

  • Emissions from inland waters
  • Sweden’s mitigation policy
  • Territorial carbon balance

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1750-0680