Terrestrial Carbon Group Side Event in Copenhagen

Strategies for a Staged Full Inclusion of Terrestrial Carbon
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the Terrestrial Carbon Group present progress and strategies for resolving scientific, institutional and economic challenges to a staged full inclusion of terrestrial carbon in accounting for GHG mitigation, starting with forest emissions and sequestration.

Date: Thursday 17 December 2009

Time: 14.30 - 16.15

Location: Radisson Blu Falconer

Topics will include: 

§ Unlocking the potential of terrestrial carbon: What is immediately possible and ultimately necessary?

§ Where is the terrestrial carbon and how much terrestrial carbon is at risk?

§ Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU)

§ How can we build the multinational system?

§ How can we build the technical basis for mitigation and monitoring?

§ How can we make the transition to AFOLU?