Abstract

It is clear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone is insufficient to avoid large global temperature increases. To avoid atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases that result in dangerous alterations of the climate, large reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion and land use changes must be accompanied by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide sequestration. Natural Climate Solutions have become a major focus of climate policy. Land and ocean ecosystems remove and store atmospheric carbon, and forests play a major role. This focus collection includes papers that address three important aspects of the role for forests in meeting climate change mitigation goals: (i) Carbon Accounting of forest sinks and reservoirs, process emissions and carbon storage in forest products, (ii) the carbon dioxide dynamics of using Forest Bioenergy and (iii) the carbon cycle of Tropical Forests.

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Title
Focus on the role of forests and soils in meeting climate change mitigation goals: summary
Author
Moomaw, William R 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Law, Beverly E 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Goetz, Scott J 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 The Fletcher School and Global Development and Environment Institute Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, United States of America 
 College of Forestry, Oregon State University College of Forestry, Corvallis, OR 97333, United States of America 
 Northern Arizona State University, St, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, United States of America 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Apr 2020
Publisher
IOP Publishing
e-ISSN
17489326
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2548821800
Copyright
© 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.