LUC4C – Land use change: assessing the net climate forcing, and options for climate change mitigation and adaptation

LUC4C will advance our fundamental knowledge of the interactions between climate change and landuse change, and in doing so develop a framework for the synthesis of complex earth system science into guidelines that are of practical use for policy and societal stakeholders.

Duration
4 years from 01/11/2013 to 31/10/2017
Funded by
  • European Commission - FP7

Coordinating organization
  • KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

CMCC Scientific Leader
CMCC Project manager
CMCC Institutes

CMCC Divisions

General aims
  • discern the key elements of land use that have the largest effect on climate, including their dependencies across time and space;
  • develop innovative methods to better quantify the dynamic interactions between land use and the climate system at different time and space scales;
  • deliver a portfolio of synthesis products and best practice guidelines for the identification of benefits or adverse effects of land-based mitigation options across different scenarios and where conflicts occur, the need for trade-offs.

CMCC Role

CMCC is leader of WP7 and contributor of WP1 and WP5

 


Expected results

LUC4C aims to achieve progress in critical aspects of land use-climate system science and, ultimately, to provide novel results to inform policy makers and society. Specifically, the knowledge gained from more accurate methodologies and models needs to be synthesized in ways that enable policy makers to use this knowledge in furthering the development of European and international land-use change/climate mitigation policy, including MRV guidelines (Monitoring, Reporting, Verification).


Activity
  • WP1: Policy needs and recommendations
  • WP2: Land-use and land-cover change processes
  • WP3: Ecosystem processes
  • WP4: Net climate effects of past and future LULCC
  • WP5: Model-data integration, performance and uncertainties
  • WP6: Integrated assessment and synthesis
  • WP7: Improved MRV methodologies, to support good practice land policy
  • WP8: Management and Dissemination of project results

Partners
  • UNEXE - University of Exteter
  • CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • METO - Met Office Hadley Center
  • University of Edimburgh
  • VU-VUMC Stichting
  • JRC - Joint Research Center
  • CMCC - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
  • Denkstatt
  • Russian State Agrarian University
  • NCAR – National Center for Atmospheric Research

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