Como as partes da UNFCCC podem agir sobre os efeitos climáticos não carbônicos das florestas

The briefing explains how forests influence climate through non-carbon biophysical processes—albedo, evapotranspiration, surface roughness, and aerosols—and proposes six specific mechanisms for the UNFCCC to integrate these effects into national reporting, NDCs, REDD+, adaptation planning, the Global Stocktake, and IPCC assessments.

• Forests influence climate stability through four primary non-carbon biophysical processes: albedo (solar energy reflection), evapotranspiration (moisture release that cools the surface), surface roughness (wind turbulence that increases heat and moisture transfer), and the release of aerosols and chemical compounds that affect cloud cover and atmospheric composition.
• Deforestation of tropical forests has a significantly higher impact on global warming than carbon accounting alone indicates, contributing 50% more to global warming when biophysical effects are included.
• Forest loss has severe regional and local consequences: it can reduce precipitation across national borders—such as deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon affecting rainfall in Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina—and can cause local temperature spikes far exceeding global averages, with some communities experiencing peaks above 7.6 °C.
• The document proposes six ways for UNFCCC parties to act on non-carbon effects: expanding annual greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory reports to reflect biophysical warming or cooling; including these effects in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs); incorporating them into REDD+ reporting and finance; integrating them into National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and funding; introducing them into the Global Stocktake (GST); and ensuring their inclusion in the IPCC's 7th assessment cycle (AR7).
• Ignoring non-carbon benefits can lead to climate injustice, as the impacts of deforestation often fall most heavily on vulnerable populations, such as agricultural workers exposed to extreme heat stress.

APA

Culbertson, M., Seymour, F., & Wolosin, M. (n.d.). Como as partes da UNFCCC podem agir sobre os efeitos climáticos não carbônicos das florestas. World Resources Institute. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2024-02/how-unfccc-parties-can-act-forests-non-carbon-climate-effects-portuguese.pdf

Chicago

Culbertson, Michael, Frances Seymour, and Michael Wolosin. Como as partes da UNFCCC podem agir sobre os efeitos climáticos não carbônicos das florestas. World Resources Institute, n.d. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2024-02/how-unfccc-parties-can-act-forests-non-carbon-climate-effects-portuguese.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{culbertsonndcomo, author = {Culbertson, Michael and Seymour, Frances and Wolosin, Michael}, title = {{Como as partes da UNFCCC podem agir sobre os efeitos climáticos não carbônicos das florestas}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2024-02/how-unfccc-parties-can-act-forests-non-carbon-climate-effects-portuguese.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }