Reconciling global-model estimates and country reporting of anthropogenic forest CO2 sinks
Reconciling global-model estimates and country reporting of anthropogenic forest CO2 sinks
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DOI:
10.1038/s41558-018-0283-x
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发表时间:
2018-10-01
影响因子:
30.7
通讯作者:
Zaehle, Soenke
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作者:
Grassi, Giacomo;House, Jo;Zaehle, Soenke
Achieving the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement requires forest-based mitigation. Collective progress towards this goal will be assessed by the Paris Agreement's Global stocktake. At present, there is a discrepancy of about 4GtCO(2) yr(-1) in global anthropogenic net land-use emissions between global models (reflected in IPCC assessment reports) and aggregated national GHG inventories (under the UNFCCC). We show that a substantial part of this discrepancy (about 3.2 GtCO(2) yr(-1)) can be explained by conceptual differences in anthropogenic forest sink estimation, related to the representation of environmental change impacts and the areas considered as managed. For a more credible tracking of collective progress under the Global stocktake, these conceptual differences between models and inventories need to be reconciled. We implement a new method of disaggregation of global land model results that allows greater comparability with GHG inventories. This provides a deeper understanding of model-inventory differences, allowing more transparent analysis of forest-based mitigation and facilitating a more accurate Global stocktake.