How can the UK develop measurement of carbon fluxes from different habitats and farming systems which are in different conditions and using different management approaches? This is especially relevant for peatland and coastal habitats
Background
To limit future warming requires rapid reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieving net zero by 2050, as required by UK legislation. Climate mitigation is led in government by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). But Defra is responsible for efforts to reduce GHG emissions from four sectors: agriculture, waste and wastewater, land-use, and fluorinated gases (F-gases). Defra also has responsibility to promote forestry, which acts as a carbon sink. Together, the four Defra sectors represent 15% of the total net UK GHGs, with agriculture being the biggest contributor (about 10% of UK emissions).
Defra has research interests in reduction of emissions, the removal of GHG from the atmosphere, and in understanding the impacts of mitigation activities on other environmental outcomes.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Quanterra Systems: QFlux, Novel Monitoring-as-a-Service to Ground-Truth Carbon Monitoring Solutions
**Quanterra Systems ('Quanterra')** is a UK-SME focused on increasing confidence in Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) with the power of analytics for tackling climate change, by providing robust, affordable, and timely measur...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on providing robust measurements of ecosystem carbon flows, specifically targeting hard-to-measure carbon accrued below the surface in different habitats and farming systems.
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Economic Carbon Sequestration Monitoring
Reducing our carbon emissions is essential if we are to achieve Net Zero, address climate change and protect our futures. However, mitigation of unavoidable carbon-emissions will also require offsetting through large sca...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the need for efficient and robust monitoring of carbon sequestration in different habitats and farming systems, particularly focusing on carbon stored below the ground.
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Generating Regional Emissions Estimates with a Novel Hierarchy of Observations and Upscaled Simulation Experiments (GREENHOUSE)
The UK is committed to quantifying and managing its emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG, i.e. CO2, CH4, N2O) to reduce the threat of dangerous climate change. Sinks and sources of GHGs vary in space and time across the UK...
Funded by: NERC
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to improve the capabilities of land surface models to estimate GHG emissions, which is partially relevant to the question.