Description du projet
Les forêts sont à l’avant-garde de la lutte contre le changement climatique
Le changement climatique a poussé les pays et les organisations de la planète à chercher de nouvelles solutions permettant d’atténuer ou de prévenir ses effets. Bien que les forêts pâtissent du changement climatique, elles sont également essentielles à la réduction des émissions car elles forment d’importants puits de carbone: elles séquestrent le carbone en captant le CO2 de l’atmosphère et en le transformant en biomasse. Cela dit, ce processus est sous la menace constante des catastrophes naturelles qui se font de plus en plus nombreuses et plus fréquentes sous l’effet du changement climatique et du manque de connaissances sur les échanges biogéochimiques et biophysiques entre la terre et l’atmosphère. Le projet INFORMA, financé par l’UE, approfondira nos connaissances sur la manière de gérer et de protéger les forêts tout en préservant leur biodiversité et leurs ressources.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- 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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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
46022 Valencia
Espagne