Descripción del proyecto
Los bosques asumen un papel central en la lucha contra el cambio climático
El cambio climático ha llevado a países y organizaciones del mundo entero a buscar nuevas tecnologías que puedan ayudar a mitigar o evitar sus efectos. A pesar de que los bosques sufren a causa del cambio climático, también resultan fundamentales para reducir las emisiones, ya que se trata de sumideros de carbono importantes: secuestran el carbono al capturar el CO2 de la atmósfera y transformarlo en biomasa. Sin embargo, este proceso se ve constantemente amenazado por un aumento de las catástrofes naturales, que son hoy en día más frecuentes debido al cambio climático y a la falta de conocimientos sobre los intercambios biofísicos y biogeoquímicos entre la tierra y la atmósfera. El proyecto INFORMA, financiado con fondos europeos, permitirá reforzar nuestra comprensión sobre el modo de gestionar y proteger los bosques, a la vez que se mantiene su biodiversidad y sus recursos.
Objetivo
Forests represent the largest terrestrial carbon sink that can be economically managed to combat climate change. In this context, sustainable forest management will become a major tool of the EU Green Deal on the road to an economic growth decoupled from resource use. But essential forest functions are increasingly threatened by climate change and related natural disturbances, while the knowledge regarding the effects of forest management on biophysical and biogeochemical fluxes exchanged between land and atmosphere are too limited.
Accordingly, the overall objective of the INFORMA project is to increase the science-based knowledge on multi-purpose sustainable forest management under climate change. More particularly, it will analyse the trade-offs and synergies between different objectives considering the environmental integrity and climate feedbacks, social acceptability and economic feasibility of future European forest practices, including zero management options. It will identify options for maintaining carbon sinks, in addition to fostering productivity, supporting genetic diversity, biodiversity conservation, and maintaining soil and water resources in the different European ecoregions.
Applying a multi-actor approach, INFORMA will 1) Quantify differences in major ecosystem functions affecting climate processes between managed and unmanaged forests across Europe; 2) Analyse socio-institutional patterns of innovative forest-based mitigation and adaptation strategies; 3) Search for management alternatives (including no-management) and simulate their effect on a variety of ecosystem functions; and 4) Improve forest carbon certification for a cost-effective operationalisation and integration of climate smart practices in forestry.
INFORMA main outputs will be best regional management practices, implementation pathways for the European forestry sector, recommendations for forest carbon certification improvements and for economic-institutional policy action.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestrysilviculture
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiodiversity conservation
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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