…. Similarly farm landscape management to include the sequestration through hedgerows, shrubs and managed woodlands on farms and climate friendly land management techniques are evolving. 2 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regional- energy-data-guidance-note Sequestration within wetland habitats, such as in restored peatlands, is not yet included in carbon accounting in the UK…
… but this will be accounted for in future as the revised IPCC Guidelines come into use including the wetlands supplement. Similarly, ‘blue carbon’, i.e. sequestration within the marine environment, is also not accounted for in current methodologies. Local action to improve blue carbon and wetland sequestration through good management of these environments is important, such as improving saltmarshes in Dumfries…
… as a way of providing transparency in emissions accounting, making it clear the type of emission source and the level of control of the reporting organisation over the source. Three levels of scope have been defined and used on a global basis. Sequestration: a natural or artificial process by which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and held in solid or liquid form. The uptake…
… of atmospheric carbon by plants and the growth of wood or increase of peat volume are examples of biological sequestration. Also see removals. 21 Background I manage SRUC’s Dairy Research Unit farms here at Crichton Royal near Dumfries where we are lucky to have easy worked ground with freely- draining soils. We run two dairy units within the farm. We are situated within the Lower Nithsdale NVZ…