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H2020Staff exchange2018–2023

CARE4C · Carbon smart forestry under climate change

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2018-01-01 → 2023-06-30
EU contribution
€967,500
Participants
19
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Carbon smart forestry under climate change

Under a changing climate, forestry faces the challenge of contributing to a society with low-carbon emissions. Whilst forests sequester carbon, they simultaneously release carbon during forest operations. Our ambition is to achieve an integrated picture of carbon sinks and sources and to adapt forest management for different climate and forest management regimes. The project "Carbon smart forestry under climate change" (CARE4C) strives to develop carbon smart forest management systems for adaptation and mitigation in the view of climate change. CARE4C contributes to developing and promoting career development, enhances skills of seconded staff members and strengthens the Pan-European co-operation. The objectives of CARE4C are to analyse, quantify and model the carbon sink resulting from forest growth, and to analyse, quantify and model the carbon source by forest operations and risks caused by biotic and abiotic factors. Overarchingly, we aim to combine the sink and source aspects into an integrated picture and holistic balance of the whole, publishing and teaching our results. Additionally, we develop a new concept of carbon smart forestry to enhance knowledge and skills at individual and organizational level.

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Project objective

Carbon smart forestry under climate change (CARE4C) combines high level expertise and state of the art research in the context of carbon management in forests with advanced career building qualification by teaching, training and involving ESR's . CARE4C aims at substantially expanding knowledge about carbon sink by forest growth and carbon source by forest operations in order to enable carbon smart forestry under climate change. We trace the knowledge from understanding to modelling and application, and follow a clear dissemination strategy by training and teaching, publications in scientific journals and by involving forest related stakeholders and the public. The project builds upon a consortium that was successfully established within the Marie Curie IRSES project Climate-Fit Forests. Here, the consortium is enlarged by complementary academic and non-academic partners, and the exploratory focus is extended. The study area encompasses a broad range of climatic zones from Mediterranean to sub-boreal areas providing highly different growing conditions and landscapes differently affected by climate change. By this multilevel and multidisciplinary approach we overcome the restrictions concerning the transferability of locally and case study focused results. We plan a rather high number of secondments in order to efficiently extend the interdisciplinary network and dissemination. The project connects countries where both, integrative and segregative approaches, are prevailing in forest management. The forest types of interest include pure and mixed stands as well as complex structured close to nature forests. We track climate induced impacts on carbon sequestration on cell, organ, and tree level up to stand and landscape level. For a broad spectrum of forest types and management approaches we measure and compile information about carbon sink and source, model the carbon balance, take into account economics and derive carbon smart forest management options under climate

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Participants

  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · MuenchenCoordinatorGermany
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridSpain
  • AGRESTA S COOP · MadridSpain
  • BERNER FACHHOCHSCHULE · BernSwitzerland
  • BIALOWIESKI PARK NARODOWY · BialowiezaPoland
  • BURGERGEMEINDE BERN · BernSwitzerland
  • FORA FOREST TECHNOLOGIES SLL · SoriaSpain
  • GROSSE KREISSTADT TRAUNSTEIN · TraunsteinGermany
  • Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam National University Hanoi · HanoiVietnam
  • LIBERA UNIVERSITA DI BOLZANO · BolzanoItaly
  • MERENSKY TIMBER (PTY) LTD · JohannesburgSouth Africa
  • Ministerium für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft, Natur- und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen · DüsseldorfGermany
  • PANSTWOWE GOSPODARSTWO LESNE LASY PANSTWOWE · WarszawaPoland
  • PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI BOLZANO · BolzanoItaly
  • SCIENTES MONDIUM UG · AltomunsterGermany
  • STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY · StellenboschSouth Africa
  • SZKOLA GLOWNA GOSPODARSTWA WIEJSKIEGO · WARSZAWAPoland
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID · VALLADOLIDSpain
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · PadovaItaly

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union