Assessing Climate Change Causes, Risks and Opportunities in Forestry

Assessing climate change causes, risks and opportunities in forestry

Forests play an important role in regulating the global climate by storing carbon that would otherwise be released as CO2 to the atmosphere, and affecting the global energy balance through absorption of solar radiation. Forests are also affected directly by the impact of increased CO2 levels and temperatures on ecosystem processes, and indirectly by human responses seeking to mitigate the net e...

Coping with climate change risks and opportunities for insurers

Climate change impacts on forestry.

Changing temperature and precipitation pattern and increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO(2) are likely to drive significant modifications in natural and modified forests. Our review is focused on recent publications that discuss the changes in commercial forestry, excluding the ecosystem functions of forests and nontimber forest products. We concentrate on potential direct and indirect im...

CLIM-FO Climate Change & Forestry

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Forestry, Africa and Climate Change Protocol

Joint Implementation (JI) was a concept developed by the Conference of Parties (CoP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to help reduce the level of greenhouse gases, particularly CO2, in the global atmosphere. In JI projects, an organisation in a developed country invests in an organisation in a less developed country with the aim of reducing atmospheric greenhouse gases....