Descripción del proyecto
Mejora del conocimiento sobre la restauración de humedales para una mitigación más eficiente del carbono
Los humedales tienen un enorme potencial para el secuestro de carbono y la adaptación, pero las brechas del conocimiento limitan su uso eficiente y sus opciones en el contexto del uso de la tierra, el cambio de uso de la tierra y la silvicultura. El equipo del proyecto ALFAwetlands, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende contribuir a ampliar la base de conocimientos geoespaciales sobre estos ecosistemas. Su método de creación conjunta prevé permitir el apoyo de enfoques más inclusivos y comunitarios para restaurar los humedales. Se aprovecharán datos experimentales y laboratorios vivientes para integrar la investigación interdisciplinaria y de múltiples agentes sobre cuestiones ecológicas, medioambientales, sociales y económicas conexas. El equipo de ALFAwetlands evaluará la repercusión general de la restauración de los humedales en la sociedad y el bienestar a nivel local, nacional y europeo.
Objetivo
Wetlands cover 5-8% of the world’s land area and have a huge capacity to sequester carbon (C). Healthy wetlands accumulate C effectively due to water-logged conditions promoting highly stable C content. The EU aims to cut GHG emissions by at least 55% by 2030.This ambition requires new GHG mitigation measures within all sectors including LULUCF sector, where wetlands as C rich ecosystem can contribute to efficiently to both EU's climate targets and biodiversity strategy. Currently there is still a high uncertainty prevails of wetlands’ spatial and C sink extent, as well as source estimates and sustainable alternatives in restoration. This hinders the efficient use of wetlands in C mitigation and adaptation in the context of other LULUCF mitigation options. We will advance the state-of-the-art on the geospatial knowledge base on wetlands and their use and degradation in Europe. We will apply a co-creation approach to develop procedural knowledge and find ways for integrating multiple targets, supporting more inclusive, community-based approaches to wetland restoration. Diverse novel experimental data on ecosystems’ responses to wetlands’ management and restoration regimes under different types of land-use and will be acquired and synthesised on biodiversity and other ecosystem services (BES). At the local level, Living Labs (LL) support and integrate interdisciplinary and multi-actor research on ecological, environmental, economic, and social issues. Models will be utilised to scale up experimental data from LLs, to gain an understanding of the potential impacts of upscaled wetland restoration options on BES provision, as well as changes in BES provision at the EU level for various policy-relevant time periods and the most policy-relevant CC mitigation and BD targets. We will assess the societal impacts of wetland restoration, especially on BES benefits and costs of different restoration approaches and wellbeing impacts at local, national, and EU levels.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
00790 Helsinki
Finlandia