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Climate Goals of the Paris Agreement: Impact of Land Use
https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2019_025_climate-goals-of-the-paris-agreement-impact-of-land-use.phpPress Release 025/2019
Climate Goals of the Paris Agreement: Impact of Land Use
Researchers at KIT and the University of Edinburgh show that previous measures to reduce global warming through land use change are insufficient
Significantly less than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times – this is the temperature to which global warming should be limited, according to the Paris Climate Agreement. However, a recent special report of the IPCC shows that the global temperature has already increased by one degree Celsius. In a study, a research team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Edinburgh showed that previous efforts to reduce greenhouse gases through human land use are insufficient. Their findings are presented in the journal Nature Climate Change (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0400-5).
“A quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gases come from land use and the associated massive depletion of natural carbon sinks,” says Dr. Calum Brown from the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), KIT’s Campus Alpine. Fewer forests due to deforestation as well as intensive farming and pastoral agriculture are equally contributing to climate change, as fossil power plants and internal combustion engines. “Whether we achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement will depend heavily on our ability to establish fundamental, sustainable changes in the land use system.” Together with the University of Edinburgh, KIT has examined how countries that signed the Paris Agreement plan, introduce and implement appropriate actions, and what impact these could have on climate change.
“Our study shows that if we want to meet the climate goals, we need to find quick, yet realistic solutions to sustainably change human land use,” says Brown. So far, about 197 countries have prepared Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The most common actions are aimed at significantly reducing deforestation, afforesting large areas and reducing greenhouse gases from agriculture. For example, India and China want to reforest an area of up to 40 million hectares over the next few years. “Forests store large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and can thus reduce the greenhouse gases from agriculture,” says Brown.
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Climate Goals of the Paris Agreement: Impact of Land Use
Researchers at KIT and the University of Edinburgh show that previous measures to reduce global warming through land use change are insufficient
Significantly less than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times – this is the temperature to which global warming should be limited, according to the Paris Climate Agreement. However, a recent special report of the IPCC shows that the global temperature has already increased by one degree Celsius. In a study, a research team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Edinburgh showed that previous efforts to reduce greenhouse gases through human land use are insufficient. Their findings are presented in the journal Nature Climate Change (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0400-5).
“A quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gases come from land use and the associated massive depletion of natural carbon sinks,” says Dr. Calum Brown from the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), KIT’s Campus Alpine. Fewer forests due to deforestation as well as intensive farming and pastoral agriculture are equally contributing to climate change, as fossil power plants and internal combustion engines. “Whether we achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement will depend heavily on our ability to establish fundamental, sustainable changes in the land use system.” Together with the University of Edinburgh, KIT has examined how countries that signed the Paris Agreement plan, introduce and implement appropriate actions, and what impact these could have on climate change.
“Our study shows that if we want to meet the climate goals, we need to find quick, yet realistic solutions to sustainably change human land use,” says Brown. So far, about 197 countries have prepared Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The most common actions are aimed at significantly reducing deforestation, afforesting large areas and reducing greenhouse gases from agriculture. For example, India and China want to reforest an area of up to 40 million hectares over the next few years. “Forests store large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and can thus reduce the greenhouse gases from agriculture,” says Brown.
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