Objective

Assessment of new plantings of hedges on arable land as a climate change mitigation option and quantification of possible effects on adjacent agricultural land, water balance and biodiversity

Methodology

• Data collection from various hedgerow sites across Germany, including adjacent agricultural land
• Modelling the biodiversity effect of new hedgerow plantations in the agricultural landscape
• Profitability analyses at farm level of different options for the use of hedge biomass, including revenues from trading of CO₂-certificates
• Estimation of the implementation potential at national level, derivation of implementation costs and evaluation of funding instruments

Climate effect under consideration

CO₂ sequestration potential in biomass and soil carbon as well as CO₂ avoidance costs of the investigated uses