The urgency or reducing carbon emissions and greenhouse gases is now well-established, highlighted by plans in many countries to reach Net-Zero emissions by 2050 or earlier to stabilise the global climate. The emphasis now is on pathways to Net-Zero to meet the scale of the challenge. The land sector has a particularly key role in these pathways because of its role in storing and sequestering carbon although at present it is also a large source of greenhouse gases from agriculture. Carbon sequestration can occur through forests and organic soils (notably peat) in addition to coastal\/marine habitats (saltmarsh, seagrass etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am currently involved in investigating different pathways for reaching Net-Zero including the effects on ongoing climate change and the co-benefits from initiatives such as peatland restoration, afforestation or coastal\/marine management schemes. This work aims to identify the key role of spatial targeting and related schemes such as carbon certification in achieving realistic steps towards decarbonisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brown I (2020) Challenges in delivering climate change policy through land use targets for afforestation and peatland restoration. Environmental Science & Policy 107, 36-45.<\/em> doi:10.1016\/j.envsci.2020.02.013<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brown I (2020) Evaluating wider benefits of Low-Carbon farming practices. Report to UK Committee on Climate Change<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brown, I, Castellazzi, M, Feliciano D (2014) Comparing path dependence and spatial targeting of land use in the implementation of climate change responses. Land 3(3), <\/em>850-873.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brown I.\n(2006). Modelling future landscape change on coastal floodplains. Environmental\nModelling & Software<\/em>, 21, 1479-1490.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The urgency or reducing carbon emissions and greenhouse gases is now well-established, highlighted by plans in many countries to reach Net-Zero emissions by 2050 or earlier to stabilise the global […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/115"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}