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Book (series)Forestry for a low-carbon future: Integrating forests and wood products in climate change strategies 2016
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No results found.Following the introduction, Chapter 2 provides an overview of mitigation in the forest sector, addressing the handling of forests under UNFCCC. Chapters 3 to 5 focus on forest-based mitigation options – afforestation, reforestation, REDD+ and forest management – and Chapters 6 and 7 focus on wood-product based options – wood energy and green building and furnishing. The publication describes these activities in the context of UNFCCC rules, assessing their mitigation potential and economic attrac tiveness as well as opportunities and challenges for implementation. Chapter 8 discusses the different considerations involved in choosing the right mix of options as well as some of the instruments and means for implementation. Chapter 8 also highlights the co-benefits generated by forest-based mitigation and emphasizes that economic assessment of mitigation options needs to take these benefits into account. The concluding chapter assesses national commitments under UNFCCC involving forest miti gation and summarizes the challenges and opportunities. -
Book (series)Unasylva 247/248 - XIV World Forestry Congress 2016Forests are essential to life on our planet, to mitigating and adapting to climate change, ensuring adequate supply of fresh water, enhancing biodiversity and providing sustainable incomes and livelihoods, including food security. But they face unprecedented and unrelenting pressures. This issue includes a broad selection of the best papers submitted to the XIV World Forestry Congress (Durban, September 2015), as well as an overview of the Congress’s ambitious agenda and outcomes.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetForests and wood products propelling a low-carbon future. Poster
Integrating forests and wood products in climate change strategies
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No results found.The FAO Forestry Paper 177 ‘Forestry for a low-carbon future: Integrating forests and wood products in climate change strategies’ released in July 2016 was produced through the online collaboration of 113 experts worldwide. This Forestry paper provides illustrations of how trees in a "virtuous cycle" not only remove carbon during their life time but continue to store it in wood products. The Forestry Paper’s approach of integratin g forests and wood products based mitigation is unique and relevant in the context of cross-sectoral approaches in the backdrop of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. Forests are mentioned in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions to mitigation of more than 100 countries. Value chains of wood, for example wood-based building materials and biomass for energy, help to avoid fossil fuel emissions through substitution effects. Such roles of sustainably-produced wood are less-recognized widely, but are equally significant for mitigation as made clearer in this Forestry Paper. The Forestry paper indicates how households and consumers can contribute to mitigation through the use of sustainably-sourced wood and thereby help to expand a low-carbon economy. Interest in the publication is expected to grow beyond policymakers and climate change experts to engineers, architects and designers, where it could serve as an important resource for planning and energy sect or development. The booklet ‘Forests and wood products propelling a low carbon future’ showcases some key messages from the Forestry paper using infographics.
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