Development of a Full Carbon Budget for Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand has committed to ambitious greenhouse gas emission reductions. Yet key questions surrounding forest, grassland and urban carbon exchange remain unanswered. Recent studies hypothesize that urban ecosystems could absorb twice as much carbon as natural forest, but no direct evidence has yet been presented for any city. We will establish the first full urban-scale carbon exchange estimation for Auckland, incorporating both fossil emissions and carbon uptake by the urban ecosystem.