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Tree carbon stocks are relevant for quantifying terrestrial carbon storage and carbon sinks as well as for estimating potential emissions and removals from land cover changes (deforestation, reforestation, afforestation) and from biotic (pests, diseases) and abiotic (e.g. forest fires, windstorms) disturbances. Forests in particular have a key role in the global carbon cycle and are considered large and persistent carbon sinks thanks to the CO2 fixed by photosynthesis into organic matter, such as wood. Therefore, spatially explicit data and assessments of forest biomass and carbon are of paramount importance for the design and implementation of effective sustainable forest management options and forest related policies. The AGCI provides useful information about the tree carbon stocks and condition in protected areas, which can contribute to identify potentially degraded areas, evaluate the conservation performance of protected areas, set restoration targets, and assess the contribution of protected areas to reduce net global carbon emissions. In the assessment of AGCI, water bodies, urban areas, permanent snow/ice and bare area land cover classes mapped by the Climate Change Initiative – Land Cover map (Land Cover CCI, 2017) have been masked out for preventing distortions and potentially biased estimates that unvegetated areas, or areas with very low canopy cover, can cause in the assessment (Quegan et al. 2017).

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Below ground carbon

Manager — Tue, 24 May 2022 11:54:50 +0000

Below ground carbon

Manager Tue, 05/24/2022 - 07:54

Indicator unit: The belowground biomass carbon (BBC) is expressed in Mg (megagrams or tonnes) of carbon per km2 . It represents an estimation of the carbon stored in the roots of all living trees. This carbon pool is calculated as a fraction of the aboveground biomass carbon stock using root-to-shoot ratios (R). It is derived from two main data sources: the global aboveground biomass map produced by the GlobBiomass project (globbiomass.org) and the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC, 2019).

Area of interest: The BBCI has been calculated at the country level, terrestrial ecoregion level and for all protected areas and is provided for each country and each terrestrial and coastal protected area of size ≥ 1 km2.

Policy question: There are two main policy questions to which BBCI is relevant:

How do protected areas contribute, through the conservation of vegetation resources, to the health and productivity of the ecosystems and to the sustainability of the local communities that depend on these ecosystem services derived from them? Tree-root systems provide various ecosystem services that improve soil conditions and prevent soil degradation.
How do protected areas contribute to carbon storage and hence to offset the impacts of fossil fuel emissions and to climate change mitigation? Forests represent one of the largest terrestrial organic carbon reservoirs, and significantly contribute to the regulation of the global carbon cycle. Root biomass represents a stable and relatively inaccessible carbon stock, mainly affected by the removal of the canopy. Protected areas may contribute to biomass and carbon retention and hence to the reduction of net emissions of greenhouse gasses responsible for climate change.

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15.3:By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation - neutral world

Goal 13. Climate Change

Target 11 on Protected Areas

Goal 15. Protect terrestrial ecosystems

Target 15 on contribution to carbon stocks

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Belowground Biomass Carbon Indicator (BBCI)

The BBCI provides an estimation of the amount of carbon stocks in tree roots. Together with the AGCI and SOCI, it provides a complete overview of the total carbon stored in forest areas (trees and soil). Roots are a long term and stable carbon sink, accounting for about 0.2 - 0.4 of the above ground biomass across biogeographical regions(Reich et al., 2014) of the total tree biomass. Moreover, well stablished and developed root systems provide various ecosystem services related to improved soil quality (higher cation exchange capacity and nutrient turnaround) and soil characteristics (improved aeration, soil porosity) as well as several soil-water-atmosphere interactions. As a derived dataset, the BBCI inherits some of the characteristics from the original data, such as the spatial (100 m) and temporal (year 2017) resolution. In addition, water bodies, urban areas, permanent snow/ice and bare area land cover classes (Land Cover CCI, 2017) are masked.

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Belowground Biomass Carbon Indicator (BBCI)

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Carbon Storage in Mangrove Forests

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 13:34:52 +0000

Carbon Storage in Mangrove Forests

Anonymous Sun, 11/07/2021 - 09:34

Mangroves provide both climate change mitigation and adaptation services. They provide benefits for coastal communities and they are among the most effective carbon-capture ecosystems. If they are degraded or cleared, the carbon stored will be released into the atmosphere as CO2 and it will exacerbate climate changes. Target 8 of the First Draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework said: “Minimize the impact of climate change on biodiversity, contribute to mitigation and adaptation through ecosystem-based approaches, contributing at least 10 GtCO2e per year to global mitigation efforts, and ensure that all mitigation and adaptation efforts avoid negative impacts on biodiversity.” Mangrove habitats contribute to climate mitigation targets. This layer wants to show the percentage of total carbon stored in mangroves per ACP country in comparison with the global mangrove total organic carbon stored.

Source: Global Mangrove Watch

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Manager — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:26:45 +0000

Irrecoverable Carbon

Manager Tue, 01/18/2022 - 09:26

A new paper published in Nature Sustainability mapped the irrecoveral carbon in earth's ecosystems. It shows how manageable, vulnerable and irrecoverable carbon are distributed among ecosystems. Petland, mangrove forests, old-growth forests are the most important- reserve of irrecoverable carbon. ““Irrecoverable carbon” refers to the vast stores of carbon in nature that are vulnerable to release from human activity and, if lost, could not be restored by 2050 — when the world must reach net-zero emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change..”. Here we are showing the percentage of irrecoverable carbon density by ACP country in million tonnes and the mean of irrecoverable carbon density for the year 2018 in Mg ha-1 protected by protected and conserved areas.

To explore deeper the original dataset and research, visit Conservation International Resilience Atlas. Source: Noon, M.L., Goldstein, A., Ledezma, J.C. et al. Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems. Nat Sustain 5, 37–46 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00803-6

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Where is the irrecoverable carbon?

A new paper published in Nature Sustainability mapped the irrecoveral carbon in earth's ecosystems. It shows how manageable, vulnerable and irrecoverable carbon are distributed among ecosystems. Petland, mangrove forests, old-growth forests are the most important- reserve of irrecoverable carbon. ““Irrecoverable carbon” refers to the vast stores of carbon in nature that are vulnerable to release from human activity and, if lost, could not be restored by 2050 — when the world must reach net-zero emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change..”. Here we are showing the percentage of irrecoverable carbon density by ACP country in million tonnes. Source: Noon, M.L., Goldstein, A., Ledezma, J.C. et al. Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems. Nat Sustain 5, 37–46 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00803-6

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where the ecosystems, with irrecoverable carbon stored, are protected?

Protecting Irrecoverable Carbon

Identifying to what extent ecosystems storing irrecoverable carbon are protected is crucial to better address conservation strategies and protected areas management in order to achieve climate goals. This dataset shows the mean of irrecoverable carbon density for the year 2018 in Mg/ha that falls within protected and conserved areas. The original dataset is the irrecoveral total carbon density for the year 2018 at 300 m spatial resolution. Source dataset: Noon M, Goldstein A, Ledezma JC, Roehrdanz P, Cook-Patton SC, Spawn-Lee SA, Wright TM, Gonzalez-Roglich M, Hole DG, Rockström J, and Turner WR 2021. Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems. Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4091029.

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Soil organic carbon

Manager — Tue, 24 May 2022 12:22:22 +0000

Soil organic carbon

Manager Tue, 05/24/2022 - 08:22

Indicator unit: Amount of carbon stored in the soil (0 to 30 cm depth), expressed in Mg (megagrams or tonnes) per km2.

Area of interest: The SOCI has been calculated at the country level, terrestrial ecoregion level and for all protected areas and is provided for each country and each terrestrial and coastal protected area of size ≥ 1 km2.

Policy question: There are two main policy questions to which the SOCI indicator is relevant:  How do protected areas contribute, through the conservation of soil resources, to the fertility, health and productivity of the ecosystems and to the livelihoods of the local communities that depend on these resources? Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the main component of soil organic matter, which is critical for the stabilization of soil structure, retention and release of plant nutrients, and water infiltration and storage in soil. SOC is therefore essential to ensuring soil health, fertility and food production. The loss of SOC indicates a certain degree of soil degradation, and can happen through unsustainable management practices such as excessive irrigation or leaving the soil bare, without significant vegetation cover.  How do protected areas contribute to soil carbon storage and hence to offset the impacts of fossil fuel emissions and to climate change mitigation? Soils represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon reservoir. Carbon stored in soils worldwide exceeds the amount of carbon stored in phytomass and in the atmosphere, and is the second largest global carbon store (sink) after the oceans. Changes in land use and land cover can cause SOC decreases and carbon emissions, which are one of the largest sources of human-caused carbon emissions to the atmosphere. Protected areas may contribute to soil carbon retention and hence to the reduction of net emissions of greenhouse gasses responsible for climate change.

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Data Uploaded by Luca Battistella using the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas Services (2022)

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15.3:By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation - neutral world

Target 15 on contribution to carbon stocks

Goal 13. Climate Change

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Soil organic carbon

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the carbon that remains in the soil after partial decomposition of any material produced by living organisms. Depending on local geology, climatic conditions and land use and management (amongst other factors), soils hold different SOC amounts.

The largest amounts of SOC are stored in the northern permafrost region, mostly in peat soils, where carbon accumulates in soils in huge quantities due to the low temperatures leading to low biological activity and slow decomposition of soil organic matter. In contrast, in dry and hot regions, plant growth is naturally scarce and only very little carbon enters the soil, leading to low SOC content. Climate change can also alter SOC levels, in contrasting magnitudes and directions depending on the considered regions.

Land cover and land use also have an important influence on SOC. Conversion of natural vegetation to cropland can cause large decreases in SOC levels. Unsustainable agricultural management practices such as excessive irrigation or leaving the soil bare are also drivers of important SOC losses, while the opposite is true for practices associated to sustainable soil management, such as mulching, planting cover crops, reduced or no tillage, moderate irrigation and judicious fertilization (Scharlemann et al., 2014; FAO and ITPS, 2018a, 2018b) . The SOCI provides useful information about the soil condition in protected areas, particularly when compared with other unprotected areas with similar environmental conditions, such as the unprotected buffers around protected areas. This information can contribute to identify potentially degraded areas, evaluate the conservation performance of protected areas, set restoration targets, and assess the contribution of protected areas to reduce net global carbon emissions.

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Manager — Tue, 24 May 2022 13:00:11 +0000

Total carbon

Manager Tue, 05/24/2022 - 09:00

Indicator unit: Amount of carbon stored in the soil (0 to 30 cm depth), expressed in Mg (megagrams or tonnes) per km2 .

Area of interest The SOCI has been calculated at the country level and for all protected areas and is provided and for each country, each terrestrial ecoregion and each terrestrial and coastal protected area of size ≥ 1 km2.

Policy question: There are two main policy questions to which the SOCI indicator is relevant:

How do protected areas contribute, through the conservation of soil resources, to the fertility, health and productivity of the ecosystems and to the livelihoods of the local communities that depend on these resources? Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the main component of soil organic matter, which is critical for the stabilization of soil structure, retention and release of plant nutrients, and water infiltration and storage in soil. SOC is therefore essential to ensuring soil health, fertility and food production. The loss of SOC indicates a certain degree of soil degradation, and can happen through unsustainable management practices such as excessive irrigation or leaving the soil bare, without significant vegetation cover.
How do protected areas contribute to soil carbon storage and hence to offset the impacts of fossil fuel emissions and to climate change mitigation? Soils represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon reservoir. Carbon stored in soils worldwide exceeds the amount of carbon stored in phytomass and in the atmosphere, and is the second largest global carbon store (sink) after the oceans. Changes in land use and land cover can cause SOC decreases and carbon emissions, which are one of the largest sources of human-caused carbon emissions to the atmosphere. Protected areas may contribute to soil carbon retention and hence to the reduction of net emissions of greenhouse gasses responsible for climate change.

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Goal 13. Climate Change

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Total carbon

The global map of above- and below-ground terrestrial carbon storage (tonnes (t) of C per km²) merges the following layers: (i) the above-ground carbon, expressed in tonnes of carbon per km² which corresponds to the carbon fraction of the oven-dry weight of the woody parts (stem, bark, branches and twigs) of all living trees, excluding stump and roots, as estimated by the GlobBiomass project (globbiomass.org) with 2017 as the reference year (Santoro et al., 2019), and (ii) the belowground biomass carbon (BBC), expressed in tonnes of carbon per km² which represents an estimation of the carbon stored in the roots of all living trees. The BBC is a derived product from two main sources of information: (i) above-ground biomass (AGB) data provided by the global terrestrial biomass map derived from Earth Observation data in the framework of the GlobBiomass project, and (ii) chapter 4 of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC, 2019), which indicates the most updated root-to-shoot ratios (R). The IPCC Root-to-shoot ratios depend on the biogeographic conditions (ecozone), forest type, forest origin (natural or planted) and aboveground biomass density (Table 4.4 of IPCC, 2019). However, while the biomass map provides wall-to-wall global coverage, the IPCC ratios are not available for all existing combinations of the parameters indicated above.

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{"name":"Min value for Total carbon (Mg)", "type":"line", "bp_count":"Min value for Total carbon (Mg)", "data":"carbon_min_c_mg"}

{"name":"Mean value for Total carbon (Mg)", "type":"line", "bp_count":"Mean value for Total carbon (Mg)", "data":"carbon_mean_c_mg"}

{"name":"Max value for Total carbon (Mg)", "type":"line", "bp_count":"Max value for Total carbon (Mg)", "data":"carbon_max_c_mg"}

{"name":"Sum of Total carbon (Mg)", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Sum of Total carbon (Mg)", "data":"carbon_tot_c_mg"}

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{"name":"Country ", "show": true, "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"category", "data":"country_name"}

{"name":"carbon_tot_c_pg_unprot", "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"value", "data":"carbon_tot_c_pg_unprot"}

{"name":"Unprotected Total carbon (Pg)", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Unprotected Total carbon (Pg)", "data":"carbon_tot_c_pg_unprot"}

{"name":"Protected Total carbon (Pg)", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Protected Total carbon (Pg)", "data":"carbon_tot_c_pg_prot"}

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