ECI lead: Dr Rob Dunford
We investigated development of a land-use model that could quantify the impacts of potential pathways for emissions reduction and increase carbon sequestration in UK land use sectors, and assess climate resilience as well as synergies and trade-offs between different services such as food production and biodiversity.
ECI investigated development of a land-use model that could quantify the impacts of potential pathways for emissions reduction and increase carbon sequestration in UK land use sectors, and assess climate resilience as well as synergies and trade-offs between different services such as food production and biodiversity.
Rob Dunford of ECI led a consortium including Cranfield University, the University of Edinburgh and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. The group used the Integrated Assessment Platform (IAP2), which models interactions between different land-use sectors (agriculture, forestry, water, urban, flooding and biodiversity) taking into account socio-economic drivers. They modelled an agriculture and forestry mitigation scenario based on the CCC’s central abatement scenario for the fifth carbon budget, as well as a ‘maximum biodiversity’ climate adaptation scenario. The report was instrumental in informing the CCC’s future land use modelling approach.