Climate targets: LULUCF

• NDC content

  16 targets

  • Complete the suckering, renewal or afforestation of approximately 50,000 hectares per year, with a primary focus on natural species and support for high-quality forest research when rehabilitating territory.
    LULUCF
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Planting of 679,000 hectares of olive trees in areas that are unfit for yearround crops to limit soil erosion and improve small farmers�_ income
    LULUCF
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Planting of 272,000 hectares of fruit trees to improve and diversify farmers�_ income, especially in fragile mountain areas
    LULUCF
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Planting of 73,000 hectares of citrus to improve both farmers�_ revenues and export earnings
    LULUCF
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Revegetation of bare or eroded lands with 194,762 hectares of cacti in drylands to enhance smallholder farmers and women�_s cooperative income
    LULUCF
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Planting 4.5 million date palm trees to enhance oases�_ productivity rate, combat desertification and help prevent the exodus of youth people from rural areas
    LULUCF
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Develop over 300,000 hectares of rangelands between 2020 and 2030
    LULUCF | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Afforestation and reforestation over 60,000 hectares between 2010 and 2030 to combat deforestation, the loss of water resources, animal, plant and land biodiversity
    LULUCF | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Afforestation and reforestation over 60,000 hectares between 2010 and 2030 to combat deforestation, the loss of water resources, animal, plant and land biodiversity
    LULUCF | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Stabilization of dunes by planting vegetation between 2010 and 2030 (500 hectares per year) to combat silting and desertification
    LULUCF | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Management of forestry climate risk for surface area of 2,304 hectares per year between 2010 and 2030
    LULUCF | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Planting of argan trees on 38,000 hectares to enhance vulnerable communities�_ resilience to climate change, increase carbon storage in biomass and soils, and indirectly reduce the industrial and anthropogenic pressure on natural argan tree forests
    LULUCF
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Planting of 15,000 hectares of fruit trees to improve and diversify small farmers�_ income
    LULUCF
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Protecte 1,500,000 hectares against erosion by 2030, which will include the prioritization of 22 basins
    LULUCF | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • Afforest 600,000 hectares by 2030
    LULUCF | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC
  • The replenishment of 200,000 hectares of forests by 2020
    LULUCF | Target year: 2020
    Source:

    Morocco's INDC

• National laws and policies

  3 targets

  • Up to 6,120 MTCO2e emissions reduction by enforcing overgrazing strategy by 2030 against a 2013 baseline
    LULUCF | Base year target | Target year: 2030 | Base year: 2013
    Source:

    National Plan Against Climate Change

    Executive | 2019

  • Energy from 207140m3 REDD+ forests
    LULUCF | Fixed level target | Base year: annual
    Source:

    National Plan Against Climate Change

    Executive | 2019

  • 1.5 million ha reforested by 2030
    LULUCF | Fixed level target | Target year: 2030 | Base year: 2030
    Source:

    National Plan Against Climate Change

    Executive | 2019

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