CAFE: Climate Adaptation from Forest Ecosystems

热带森林砍伐通过改变地表和大气之间的水和能量通量，导致当地和区域气候变化（Spracklen等人，2018; Ellison等人，2017年）。最近的研究表明，热带森林砍伐造成的局部和区域变暖和干燥可以与全球气候变化造成的变暖和干燥相媲美甚至超过（Smith等人，2023; Butt等人，审查中）。降低热带森林砍伐率可以带来地方和区域气候共同效益，并提供一个关键的气候适应选择。然而，评估区域气候影响的方法很复杂，这是许多利益攸关方面临的主要障碍。因此，减少森林砍伐的地方和区域气候共同效益没有得到很好的认识，政策和决策者很少考虑到这一点。迫切需要使广大利益攸关方能够方便地获得关于减少毁林对地方和区域气候的共同惠益的信息。为了解决这一问题，CAFE将开发、测试和制作第一个互动工具包的原型，使广大终端用户能够评估热带森林砍伐对当地和区域气候的影响以及减少热带森林砍伐的气候附带效益。这一新信息将提供一个强有力的杠杆，推动在地方、区域和国家范围内实现更大的可持续热带土地利用目标，为社会带来重要利益。

Tropical deforestation causes local and regional climate change through altering the fluxes of water and energy between the surface and atmosphere (Spracklen et al., 2018; Ellison et al., 2017). Recent research has demonstrated that the local and regional warming and drying from tropical deforestation can match or even exceed that due to global climate change (Smith et al., 2023; Butt et al., in review). Reducing the rate of tropical deforestation can deliver local and regional climate co-benefits and provides a crucial climate adaptation option. However, methods to assess the regional climate impacts are complex and this acts as a major barrier for many stakeholders. Consequently the local and regional climate co-benefits of reduced deforestation are not well-recognised and are rarely accounted for by policy and decision makers. There is an urgent need for information on the local and regional climate co-benefits of reduced deforestation to be made easily accessible to a wide range of stakeholders. To address this problem, CAFE will develop, test and prototype the first interactive toolkit to allow a wide range of end users to assess the local and regional climate impacts of tropical deforestation and the climate co-benefits of reduced tropical deforestation. This new information will provide a strong lever to drive greater ambition for sustainable tropical land use at local, regional, and national scales with important benefits for society.