3. Applying and Analyzing Mitigation and Adaptation Tools 

  • Carbon Sequestration Tools for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation[1]
    • Limitations:
      • Permanence (carbon going back again to the atmosphere;
      • Unaccounted losses;
      • System Saturation (climax vegetation and soil C concentration);
      • Additionality;
      • Negative feedbacks (land degradation, water resource scarcity, ecosystem change, uncertainty).
    • Measures:
      • Soil Management:
        • Improved Tillage Practices;
        • Cover Crops;
        • Residue Management;
        • Fertilization;
        • Biochar;
      • Land Management: Land Use and Land Cover Change:
        • Land Abandonment;
        • Conversion for higher carbon density cover;
        • Conversion to lower erosion rates;
        • Integrated Systems (Montado/Dehesa);
      • Circular Economies [4].

[1] Mitigation Tools: all those that increase the carbon content present in a given area

Adaptation tools: all those that make it possible to avoid the impacts of CC in the future (improve water retention capacity, which delay germination). Note: All adaptation measures are mitigation measures. But not all mitigation measures are adaptation (for example, those based on LULC changes that involve trees, because when you lose the productive part of the system you no longer have social value that needs adaptat

[4] Such as the olive grove that we visited in Murcia – Usage of byproducts in other phases of the production chain

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