Seminar on GHG assessment in agriculture, forestry and other land use

The seminar “GHG assessment in agriculture, forestry and other land use”, organized by the Institute for Environmental Solutions, took place on October 28, 2021. 

The aim of the seminar was to discuss existing methods of greenhouse gas accounting in agriculture, forestry and other land use and assess the possibilities for Earth observation data to support the monitoring. The event gathered specialists from the fields of monitoring and research, as well as specialists from Copernicus Programme and the European Commission. 

Here you can find the recording of the seminar. To navigate the video, please use timestamps provided in the description of the Youtube video

 
Agenda:
 
Opening speech. 
Inese Suija-Markova, managing director at IES
 
“Revision of the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation: Overview and implications for monitoring.”
Dr. Rene Colditz, Policy Officer at the Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA)
 
“National GHG inventories: accounting in forest land, cropland and grassland. Challenges and solutions.”
Dr. Andis Lazdiņš, Leading Researcher at Latvian State Forest Research Institute “Silava”
 
“The field measurements and results of GHG emissions from agricultural lands in Latvia.”
Dr. Ainis Lagzdiņš, Leading Researcher at Latvia University of Life sciences and Technologies 
 
“In situ GHG measurements in agricultural lands: advances and challenges.”
Aigars Lavrinovičs, Researcher at Institute for Environmental Solutions
 
“Use of the CAMS CO2 flux estimates to estimate the net AFOLU exchange over time on a country scale.”
Dr. Frédéric Chevallier, Research scientist at LSCE
 
“Developing Earth observation support for monitoring and reporting of GHG emissions and removals from land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF).”
Dr. Ali Nadir Arslan, Senior Scientist at Finnish Meteorological Institute
 
“Copernicus satellite data use to support GHG monitoring: a Latvian case study.”
Dr. Dainis Jakovels, Leading Researcher at Institute for Environmental Solutions
 
The event is a part of the project “Climate Responsible Agriculture for Latvia” (LIFE CRAFT) No. LIFE16 CCM/LV/000083.