Anders Lindroth
Professor
Accounting for all territorial emissions and sinks is important for development of climate mitigation policies
Author
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