Integrated Sink Enhancement Assessment

Project Information

INSEA

Grant agreement ID: 503614

Start date 1 January 2004

End date 30 June 2006

Funded under

• Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 2 553 530,00

EU contribution € 1 488 750,00

Coordinated by

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
Austria

Objective

Working group 7 (Agriculture) under the European Climate Change Programme has so far mainly dealt with mitigation potentials of GHG. A thorough integrated economic and environmental assessment in the area of agriculture and sinks has not yet been carried out. In order to support the international negotiation process and for the development of good policies the Integrated Sink Enhancement Assessment (INSEA) project's objective is to develop an analytical tool to assess economic and environmental effects for enhancing carbon sinks in agriculture and forestry. The approach is centurion spatially explicit databases that will allow the calculation of "cost-landscapes" taking on an engineering approach to integrated costs computation of additional sink enhancement measures and negative emission technologies. The various model structures will be applied to detailed European data sets and less detailed global data sets assessing the marginal abatement cost and long-term scenarios of sink enhancement measures. Concise policy conclusions from the modelling exercise William at supporting the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol commitments as well as post Kyotonegotiations.In the proposal we advocate a spatially explicit approach that is motivated by the fact that LULUCFactivities are by their very nature spatial entities and aggregate non-spatial treatment could, according to our experience, lead to serious biases in the assessment. Furthermore, we propose not only simple and easily tractable static and deterministic approach for cost calculations, but also more comprehensive, dynamic, and uncertainty (risk)-based treatments. We believe that such a multi-dimensional approach is necessary since ecosystems are more complicated and complex in their responses and therefore robustness and consistency across a variety of decision rules will guarantee sustainable management of this natural resource.'

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › databases
• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › forestry

Keywords

• Integrated carbon sink management
• agriculture
• cost calculations
• forestry
• supply estimation

Programme(s)

• FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• POLICIES-1.5 - Environmental assessment

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-SSP-1
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Schlosspatz 1 ; LAXENBURG ; Austria
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Participants (10)

BUNDESANSTALT FÜR GEOWISSENSCHAFTEN UND ROHSTOFFE

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Stilleweg 2 ; HANNOVER
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CENTRE DE COOPÉRATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 42 rue Scheffer ; PARIS
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION - DIRECTORATE GENERAL JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Enrico Fermi 1 ; ISPRA (VA)
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EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION

Finland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Torikatu 34 ; JOENSUU
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INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rue de l'Université, 147 ; PARIS
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JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Steyrergasse 17 ; GRAZ
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LULEÅ TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET

Sweden

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: University Campus, Porsön ; LULEÅ
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UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Schloss 1 ; STUTTGART
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UNIVERSITÄT FÜR BODENKULTUR WIEN

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Peter-Jordan-Strasse 70 ; VIENNA
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VYSKUMNY USTAV PODOZNALECTVA A OCHRANY PODY

Slovakia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Gagarinova 10 ; BRATISLAVA
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