Ana Aza
Research Scientist
Biography
I am part of the coordinating team for Norway's national greenhouse gas inventory for the Land Use, Land-Use Changes, and Forestry (LULUCF) sector under the UNFCCC and EU. My work includes calculating and reporting carbon emissions and removals for the LULUCF sector and contributing to projects that analyze the coherence and effects of national and international policies on land use, including drivers, correlations, and outcomes. I have experience in risk and uncertainty analysis, long-term planning in the forest sector, and evaluating payment for ecosystem services schemes. My expertise includes LULUCF, climate change, carbon accounting, policy analysis, and risk and uncertainty analysis.
Authors
Ana Aza Baders, Endijs García-Gil, M Rosario Kniivilä, Matleena Ling, Erik Lukmine, Diana Mustonen, Mika Rautio, Pasi Svensson, Johan Tolvanen, Anne Knut ØistadAbstract
Key messages: Multifunctionality should serve as a guiding principle for forest governance and investment, complementing production and conservation objectives. To operationalise this vision, three guiding principles should inform EU and national policies: • Plan and manage at the landscape level balancing production, biodiversity, climate adaptation and social needs in complementary ways. Policies should support a diversity of management practices. • Align sectoral policies to ensure coherence between forestry, energy, biodiversity, climate and social objectives. • Reward and support multifunctionality explicitly through advisory programmes, certification systems, and financial mechanisms that recognise and support diverse management practices.
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Ana AzaAbstract
Presentation at the PROFOR seminar in Norway
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Division of Forest and Forest Resources
EU Climate Policy Implications for Land Use in Norway: Managing Trade-offs and Achieving Policy Coherence (ClimaLand)
The ClimaLand project will investigate trade-offs between policy goals, governance levels, and sector interests, and seek to identify how to design more coherent climate and land-use policies. An important objective is to investigate how conflicting policy goals can be handled and various considerations and land-use interests balanced.
Division of Forest and Forest Resources
Optimizing Carbon, Soil Health and Yield in Coffee-Forest Systems as a Climate-Smart Land Management in Ethiopia (CoffeeLand)
CoffeeLand is an interdisciplinary research project aimed at advancing climate-smart land management in Ethiopia’s coffee-forest systems, which are critical for biodiversity, livelihoods, and global Arabica coffee genetic resources. These systems support millions of smallholder farmers but are increasingly threatened by climate change, land-use pressure, and declining productivity.