Regional environmental change: special issue on 'Modelling future changes in Cropland Soil Carbon in European Russia and the Ukraine'

摘要

Russia ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN-FCCC; available at: http://www.unfccc.de), bringing it in to force on 16th February 2005. This allows Russia to use and trade biospheric carbon sinks for the first commitment period (2008-2012) as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol, and elaborated at the 7th Conference of Parties (COP7). Soil carbon sinks (and sources), as well as above-ground stocks of carbon, can be used as biospheric sinks. A number of studies have examined the possibility of using soil carbon sequestration as a climate mitigation option.