A scoping study for potential community‐based carbon offsetting schemes in the Falkland Islands

Evans, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7052-354X; Ritson, Jonathan; McAdam, Jim; Carter, Stefanie; Stanworth, Andrew; Ross, Katherine. 2020 A scoping study for potential community‐based carbon offsetting schemes in the Falkland Islands. Stanley, Falkland Islands, Falklands Conservation, 51pp.

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Abstract/Summary

A report to Falklands Conservation. In this report, we consider the potential for a future Falkland Island carbon offsetting scheme. Such a scheme would provide a mechanism by which businesses, organisations and individuals could invest in land‐management and restoration schemes that would deliver greenhouse gas reductions or removals, delivering financial support to farmers and others to adopt sustainable land‐management practices, undertake restoration and increase the extent of ecologically valuable habitats. Overall, we consider that a Falkland Island peatland carbon offsetting scheme would have the potential to deliver significant climate change mitigation, to support habitat conservation, and to generate new sources of income for farmers, other landowners and the Islands as a whole. Any scheme would need to be sustainable and developed in partnership with the camp community and wider Falkland society to ensure that it is appropriate for the culture, economics and environment of the Islands.

Item Type:	Publication - Report
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)
Funders/Sponsors:	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Freely available via Official URL link.
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment Agriculture and Soil Science
Date made live:	08 Sep 2020 11:10 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528424

Item Type:

Publication - Report

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)

Funders/Sponsors:

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Freely available via Official URL link.

NORA Subject Terms:

Ecology and Environment
Agriculture and Soil Science

Date made live:

08 Sep 2020 11:10 +0 (UTC)