Pre-announcement: "Carbon Forestry" course 15.02.-05.03.2021 | Land Portal

The (online) course runs between 15 Feb and 05 March 2021 in close collaboration with Freiburg Academy of Continuing Education (FRAUW), UNIQUE Forestry and Land Use & other renowned forest carbon experts (Solidaridad etc.).


IMPORTANT TO KNOW: The course will be held online this year (due to the pandemic restrictions) and there will be reduced fee opportunities for participants without institutional support or with low income.


With respect to climate change mitigation, the sequestration of carbon by forests and soils is one of the most important ecosystem services of terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, large efforts have been undertaken and major political initiatives started to increase the carbon storage capacity of forests and their products.


Professionals with competencies in the development of land use based mitigation projects and with knowledge of related climate policy instruments at national and international levels are increasingly needed.


The Chair of Silviculture at Freiburg University offers – in cooperation with renowned partner organisations active in the land-use sector (UNIQUE, Solidaridad and others) – this 3-week course in Carbon Forestry. The continuing education course has been offered for several years to practitioners and scientist in the forest project sector and was considered highly useful for their further career.


Participants of this course will learn about recent developments in international climate change policy, as well as compliance and voluntary carbon markets. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be able to


  • analyse and evaluate land use project documents,
  • design carbon forestry projects (incl. REDD+, Afforestation/Reforestation, Improved Forest Management, Smart Climate Agriculture),
  • determine emission reduction effects and the amount of carbon credits generated by the projects, using appropriate methods and tools (including quantifying C pools in afforested plantations in the field),
  • plan and undertake assessments of carbon pools and fluxes to monitor forestry and other land-use carbon projects,
  • apply principles of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and environmental and social safeguards in such projects,
  • critically evaluate climate change policies, including development perspectives of carbon forestry and emission reduction markets, and
  • design financing mechanisms for forestry C projects.

With support of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, a limited number of scholarships will become available again in 2022 for selected participants partly covering course fees, accommodation costs and living expenses (unfortunately NOT AVAILABLE in 2021). For information about reduced fees and the application procedure please check the application form further down on this page or write us an email.


 



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Contact for more information and application documents:


Dr. Sabine Reinecke

Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources

Institute of Forest Sciences

Chair of Silviculture

Tennenbacherstr. 4

79106 Freiburg

Germany


 

Tel: +49 761/203-8606
carbon.forestry@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de


Sabine.Reinecke@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de


www.waldbau.uni-freiburg.de/

                      


 

Direct registration (form template in German) https://www.suedwissen.de/kurse/carbon-forestry/


Alternatively you may download and send us the following forms:


Registration

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