Our Research
» Programme Abstract : Reducing greenhouse gases from the terrestrial biosphere
Our science:
- underpins and strengthens New Zealand's ability to mitigate net emissions,
- enables New Zealand to meet our obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol.
- ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from land-based activities,
- new technologies to measure and monitor greenhouse gas emissions to internationally accepted levels of accuracy.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the terrestrial biosphere
- a research programme funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology to:- determine how physical and biological processes on land regulate the production of New Zealand's major greenhouse gases-carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O),
- identify and quantify New Zealand's terrestrial carbon sources and sinks,
- develop measurement and monitoring techniques to reduce uncertainty in New Zealand's greenhouse gas inventories.