Local Stategies for Land Management according to Kyoto Protocol. Exploring New Management Tools for Co2 Sequestration in Agricultuural Lands and Forests.

he Kyoto Protocol promotes and encourages new strategies for land manage-ment oriented to carbon sequestration and greenhouse gases removal. In or-der to make these strategies the most effective, a large scale implementation at local, regional and national level is requested. Therefore administrative au-thorities responsible for land management shall individualize these strategies and operates for planning choices in coherence with the aims of Kyoto Protocol. Within this frame European regions can play a new role, not already foreseen in the ac-tual Kyoto commitments and strategies, but desirable for the development of new ap-proaches evolving from the bottom up. If so, supported by the scientific community, Re-gions could test small-scale policy experiments at the local level so to contribute to com-bat climate change and adapt to its unavoidable consequences, and at the same time to allow local population to benefit directly of the environmental policies. The Carbon-Pro project supplies public authorities responsible for land planning with useful and easily suitable tools for transferring some concepts of the Kyoto Protocol and carbon sequestration into local and regional land planning strategies. This is also the meaning of the Agreement on local management strategies for Carbon sequestration, signed in Lubljana within Carbon-Pro and focused on the creation of local carbon markets.