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International Conference on

Recent Trends in Environmental Sustainability

ESCON22/CDMP/25
Mitigation of adverse climate change impacts through carbon sequestration under
different land-use systems: a review

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Hafiz Mohkum Hammad , Hafiz Muhammad Fasihuddin Nauman , Farhat Abbas , Shafqat
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Saeed , Rashid Jawad , Wajid Farhad , Hafiz F Bakhat , Ghulam M Shah , Aitazaz A.
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Farooque , Shah Fahad , Artemi Cerdà 10
1 Department of Agronomy, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan
66000, Pakistan
2 Government High School Dharam Pur, Kot Addu, District Muzaffargarh (EMIS:
32320056), Pakistan
3 School of Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Prince Edward Island,
Charlottetown, PE C1A4P3, Canada
4 Department of Entomology, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan
66000, Pakistan
5 Department of Horticulture, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
6 University College of Dera Murad Jamali Naseerabad, Sub-Campus Lasbela University of
Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal, 90150, Pakistan
7 Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari-61100,
Pakistan
8 Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island,
Charlottetown, PE C1A4P3, Canada
9 Department of Agronomy, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
Pakistan
10 Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group. Department de Geografia. Universitat de
València. BlascoIbàñez, 28, 46010-Valencia, Spain. artemio.cerda@uv.es
Corresponding author: hafizmohkum@gmail.com

Abstract
Anthropogenic activities result in increased emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) including
carbon dioxide (CO2) that triggers climate change. Mitigation of climate change impacts
requires artificial and natural sequestration of atmospheric carbon. Land use of an ecosystem
determines its ability to sequester carbon. Characterization of the carbon contents in its cycle
can help understand the role of different land uses in GHGs emissions. In this article, four land-
use systems have been reviewed: i) cropped land: ii) horticulture orchards; iii) natural forests,
and iv) agro-forests. The literatures revealed that natural forest land system had the highest
potential of carbon sequestration. Sequestered carbon, land-use evaluation, land planning, and
management are also analysed by using various models (EPIC, CENTURY 5, carboSOIL, and
RothC). These models are used to analyse global climate change, soil organic carbon (SOC),
carbon sequestration level, soil condition, and weather condition under varying land-use
systems. Global SOC reservoirs are dynamic on time scales that can range from decades to
millennia. Land-use systems and land management practices affect the rate of carbon
sequestration in the soil. The SOC can be managed to improve and enhance agricultural
production, ecosystem services and to control GHGs emissions and thereby the climate change
impacts.

Keywords: Carbon Sequestration; Climate Change; Land Use Systems; Simulation and
Modelling

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