This document discusses the role of bamboo in climate change mitigation and adaptation. It notes that bamboo can store large amounts of carbon in its forests and products. Planting bamboo can help reduce pressure on forests by providing an alternative building material and fuel source. Bamboo also helps ecosystems by providing habitat and helping restore degraded land. For climate adaptation, bamboo cultivation can create jobs and alleviate poverty. However, greater support is needed through policies, investment, and increasing knowledge about bamboo's potential. The Global Alliance for Bamboo and Rattan aims to conduct research on bamboo resources, biomass, and technologies to provide evidence and opportunities to policymakers and international agencies.

1. Bamboo and climate changeBamboo and climate change
Trinh Thang Long

2. North America: 1
Asia: 12
Latin America: 11
Africa: 20 Oceania: 1
International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation

3. Global warming

4. What are
greenhouse
gases?
• Source: IPCC 5th
AR
CO2
CH4
N2O
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
Perflurorocarbons (PFCs)
Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)

5. Annual global CO2 emissions

6. Accumulated CO2 in the atmosphere

7. Global warming scenarios

8. 1.5 target

9. Top 100 solutions

10. Where are bamboos?

11. Bamboo and rattan
1,642 species of
bamboo and 631
species of rattan

12. Global Distribution of Bamboo and rattan

13. Bamboo for climate change mitigation
• Carbon storage in bamboo forests
• High rate of carbon sequestration

14. Bamboo for climate change mitigation
• Carbon storage in bamboo products
• Bamboo products are low to
negative carbon intensity
• Substitute for higher carbon intensity
products

15. Mitigation: reduce pressure on forest
• Easy for management
• Fast growing
• Substitute for timber
• Substitute for fuelwood

16. Mitigation: Bamboo energy
• Bamboo pellet
• Bamboo charcoal
• Bamboo gasification
• Bamboo ethanol

17. Adaptation: Build ecosystem
• Habitat for some of the
most endangered species
• Diverse species landscape
of bamboo forest

18. Adaptation: Restoring degraded
ecosystem
• Restoring seriously degraded
land
• Effective erosion control

19. Adaptation: New employment
opportunities
• Diverse products
• Jobs and poverty alleviation
• Global 60 billion trade value

20. Why NOTbamboo?
• Lack of vision and guidelines
• Lack of policy support (national and international)
• Lack of investors
Why lack of …?
Insufficient knowledge and information on bamboo and
rattan resources
Insufficient knowledge of bamboo and rattan potential
Limited knowledge of advanced technologies and markets

21. GABAR aims
• To provide reliable,
fundamental information
to policy makers
• To provide science-based
evidence to international
agencies
• To lay out investment
opportunities to donors

22. Bamboo forest mapping

23. Bamboo biomass and carbon assessment

24. Bamboo stock outside forest areas

25. Research and dissemination of
information
• Bamboo for land restoration
• Ecosystem service from
bamboo forests
• Bamboo for climate change
mitigation and adaptation
• Bamboo for energy
• Bamboo and rattan
management technical
documents
• Technology documents
• Policy advisory

26. THANK YOUTHANK YOU
Trinh Thang Long
ttlong@inbar.int
www.inbar.int