Conference on Regional Carbon Budgets to be held in Beijing in 2006
Organized by the Chinese National Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (CNC-IGBP), an international conference on regional carbon budgets will be held from August 16 to 28, 2006 in Beijing.
Greenhouse gases – especially CO2 and CH4 – are intimately connected to climate change, and their rapid increase is challenging the scientific community and policy makers. To predict future climate change accurately and find ways to manage atmospheric CO2 concentrations, it is necessary to make clear the regional and/or global carbon budgets, and the processes and feedbacks that drive the carbon cycle.
The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists from different disciplines to communicate the most recent results pertinent to the regional carbon budgets. Topics to be under discussion will include observations and measurements, ecosystem carbon processes and driving forces, modeling and data assimilation, as well as sources, sinks and inventories, and mitigation and adaptation of carbon budgets.
For more information, please visit http://www.icrcb.org.cn
