EU 토양정책 발전과 기후변화대응 위한 토지사용과 토지용도 변경에 관한 소고 (토양탄소격리를 통한)

Abstract

With an emphasis on putting successful climate change policy measures in place, one of the 4 priorities of the EU’s 6th Environmental Action Programme, the EU’s Soil Policy is emphasizing the significance of land use and land use change in part for the mitigation of climate change and the adaptation to it. Corresponding to this, The primary aim of the paper is to shed light on logical background concerning the direction of the EU’s soil policy accentuating the land use and the land use change and put out a few of the feasible suggestions for the clear direction. The paper analyzes and elucidates the effects of soil upon climate change by making use of the concept and some logics of soil carbon sequestration for the purpose. And the secondary objective is to analyze and spell out the recent developments in Soil policy and the EU’s Soil thematic Strategy, the core of the policy, which is still underway. And the Analysis and elaboration on the EU’s current status of soil degradation caused by climate change are part of the paper’s objective too, which eventually helps in stressing the significance of the land use and the land use change. Soil carbon sequestration along with the application of a range of more activating options reduces the emissions of carbon from soil into the atmosphere and increases the contents of soil organic matter. That is, it keeps the loss and emission of soil carbon to some degree in agriculture and forestry and increases the amount of crop production by enhancing soil organic matter. The significance on the land use and the land use change under the proper management harnessing the merits of the soil carbon sequestration provides a new guidance for the EU’s climate change related soil policy. The direction should be assuring with the establishment of the EU soil framework directive and the related accounting rules regarding emissions and removals of soil carbon in land use and land use change in forestry and agriculture which are not present as of today. And subsequently, the recognition of the credits for reducing soil carbon in land use and land use change in agriculture and forestry and incorporation of the area into the European Union Emissions Trading System should be the next essential step for the clear direction.