As a party to the Paris Agreement and the largest developing country, China has implemented a strategic plan to adjust economic development models and promote technological progress in energy conservation and emissions reduction. This strategy has led to remarkable achievements in reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
However, with rapid economic development, China is facing growing pressure to further reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon sequestration by terrestrial ecosystems is one of the most economically and environmentally friendly ways to mitigate atmospheric CO2 concentrations, said Fang.
"How to improve the carbon storage and carbon sequestration of terrestrial ecosystems is not only a cutting-edge field of global change research, but also the key scientific foundation for the mitigation of climate change," Fang said.
To this end, the CAS initiated a five-year strategic priority research program, "Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Relevant Issues", in January 2011. Under the program, a research team was set up to study the impacts of climate change and human activities on the structure and functioning of ecosystems, with an emphasis on quantifying the magnitude and distribution of ecosystem carbon pools and sequestration in China's terrestrial ecosystems.
From 2011 to 2017, the team of more than 350 researchers conducted a nationwide field survey of vegetation, soils and habitats in China's terrestrial ecosystem, including forests, grasslands, shrubs and farmlands.
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