CO-CARBON organizes a seminar at ACCC Impact Week 24 April 2025, at 13-14. Seminar description and programme is below:
CO-CARBON project: Recent findings on urban carbon cycle and sinks
Urban green infrastructure plays a key role in climate change mitigation and adaptation at the same time when having other benefits. Vegetation and soil store atmospheric carbon, modify local climate conditions, enhance stormwater cycling, and increase human well-being. CO-CARBON project studies carbon-smart urban green infrastructure from multiple perspectives and focuses, for example, on quantifying and modelling carbon sequestration and storage in urban green areas and examining the planning of carbon-smart urban green infrastructure from city-level to individual green spaces. This seminar presents some recent findings of the project.
Schedule:
13:00 Leena Järvi, University of Helsinki: Overview of the CO-CARBON project
13:10 Minttu Havu, University of Helsinki: Quantifying city-wide CO2 sinks using urban land surface modelling
13:25 Caroline Moinel, Aalto University: Unveiling Landscape Life Cycle Assessment: towards holistic understanding of carbon flows in urban green spaces
13:40 Liisa Kulmala, Finnish Meteorological Institute: Biogenic Carbon sequestration in cities: applying scalable, cost-effective and science-based models to support services and end-users
ACCC Impact Week program: https://www.acccflagship.fi/index.php/4th-accc-impact-week-2025/
Register by 9 April! https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/133534/lomake.html
Starting photo: Lammassaari in spring 2021, Tiina Merikoski