David M. Landholm is a Guest Researcher at PIK and a Senior Consultant at Climate Focus. His work focuses on research, advisory, and implementation projects related to the AFOLU sector, in particular to nature-based solutions (NbS), tropical deforestation, sustainable agriculture and greenhouse gas accounting. David recently defended his PhD dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin, entitled "Cross-scale drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and local solutions for climate change mitigation".
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14412 Potsdam
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Senior Consultant at Climate Focus
d.landholm[at]climatefocus.com
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Recent topics addressed include:
- Contributing author of the NYDF Assessment reports (2020, 2021)
- Global, cross-country feasibility assessment of NbS activities and their mitigation potential
- Role of voluntary carbon markets (VCM) in accelerating the implementation of NbS
- Guidance for institutional investors on NbS implementation
- Commodity-specific decarbonisation pathways in the agricultural sector
- Environmental risk assessment of sustainable investments in the LU sector
- Supply chain sustainability initiatives in the cocoa sector in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire
- Incentives for sustainable supply chains in the smallholder oil palm sector in Indonesia
- Feasibility assessment of SOC carbon credits in the livestock sector in Colombia
- Due diligence on delivery of carbon credits from land use projects
- Guidance on nesting of REDD+ initiatives
- , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … (2021). Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country. Global Change Biology, 27, 6025– 6058. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15873
- Landholm, D.M., P. Pradhan, P. Wegmann, M. Romero, J.C. Suárez Salazar, A. Solarte, M. Quintero, J.P. Kropp (2019). Reducing deforestation and improving livestock productivity: GHG mitigation potential of silvopastoral systems in Caquetá. Environmental Research Letters, 14, 114007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab3db6
- Landholm, D.M., P. Pradhan, J.P. Kropp (2019). Diverging forest land use change dynamics induced by armed conflict across the tropics. Global Environmental Change, 56, 86–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.03.006
- Landholm, D.M., A. Holsten, F. Martellozzo, D. Reusser, J.P. Kropp (2018). Climate change mitigation potential of community-based initiatives in Europe. Regional Environmental Change, 19(4), 927–938. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1428-1
- Martellozzo, F., D.M. Landholm, A. Holsten (2019). Upscaling from the grassroots: potential aggregate carbon reduction from community-based inititatives in Europe. Regional Environmental Change, 19(4), 953–966. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01469-9
- San Miguel, G., B. Corona, D. Ruiz, D.M. Landholm, R. Laina, E. Tolosana, H. Sixto, I. Cañellas (2015). Environmental, energy and economic analysis of a biomass supply chain based on a poplar short rotation coppice in Spain. Journal of Cleaner Production, 94(0), 93-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.01.070
Under review:
- Landholm, D.M., D.D. Burra, M.K.B. Lüdeke, L. Reymondin, J.P. Kropp, G. Grosjean (Under review). Cross-country analysis of commodity-driven tropical deforestation.
- Schulte, I., D.M. Landholm, H. Bakhtary, S.M. Manirajah, S. Manning, S.C. Cabezas, D. Oppong, M. Bayo, E. van Elzakker, C. Streck (Under review). Structural barriers to increasing smallholder cocoa productivity: Evidence from household survey of farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
- Seydewitz, T., D.M. Landholm, P. Pradhan, J.P. Kropp (Under review). Global assessment of deforestation drivers across the tropics: impacts on carbon stocks and ecosystem services.
- Towards European Societal Sustainability (TESS)
- Sustainable land use-based alternatives in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon (2014-2018) (SUSA)
