Almeida Sitoe

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive country-by-country overview of the status of miombo woodlands and the policies, institutions, and legislation that are affecting their use.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify important interdisciplinary opportunities and challenges that need to be addressed, in order for the poor to benefit from carbon storage, through both climate finance streams and the collateral ecosystem service benefits delivered by carbon-friendly land management, emphasizing that multi-stakeholder working across scales from the local to the regional is necessary to ensure that scientific advances can inform policy and practice to deliver carbon, ecosystem service and poverty alleviation benefits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a general allometric equation to estimate individual tree biomass and soil carbon content (up to 100 cm depth) and estimated the carbon in the whole mangrove ecosystem of Sofala Bay, including dead trees, wood debris, herbaceous, pneumatophores, litter and soil.

TL;DR: This work illustrates the feasibility of using estimates of urban charcoal consumption to establish a link between urban energy demands and forest degradation and reveals that forest degradation associated to charcoal production in the study area is largely independent from deforestation driven by agricultural expansion and that its impact on forest cover change is in the same order of magnitude as deforestation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the national politi cation for REDD+ mitigation mechanism in developing countries and found that reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) has emerged as a promising climate change mitigation mechanism.