About Our Project
What are Land-Based Mitigation Technologies?
Climate targets will not be met by reducing emissions alone - negative emissions technologies that remove and sequester carbon dioxide are also necessary. Land-Based Mitigation Technologies (LMTs) and practices are part of the solution. Agriculture, forestry, and other land use sectors are potentially able to absorb huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.
What is LANDMARC?
LANDMARC is a 4 year project (2020-24) that will improve our understanding of how and where Land Based Mitigation Technologies can be most effectively deployed. We will bring together stakeholders, Earth observation technology and computer modelling to estimate the global realistic potential of the Earth’s land surface in absorbing additional carbon from the atmosphere. We will develop new assessment methodologies and tools. Our work will help Governments identify suitable LMTs for their countries and quantify their impact.
Where are we working?
Our 16 case studies span the globe, studying LMTs in the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia. Each study will be led by expert researchers, mostly based in the study country itself. This diversity is essential, both to capture the full global range of novel LMTs and also to fully understand the geographical and human constraints to their deployment. Funding for our project has been provided by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
What LMTs are we exploring?
Our case studies are exploring six main categories of LMTs: soils, grasslands/ shrublands, agriculture & agroforestry, forestry and wetlands & coastal zones. We may include other categories as the project progresses. Our synthesis work will bring together the LMT categories and case studies, producing techniques and tools that will help Governments identify the most effective LMTs for different locations.
Find out more
Watch our introductory video to find out more about our project and what we are hoping to learn from our research