How to best utilise forests for carbon dioxide sequestration?

• Authors: Jan Kozłowski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Forests may play important role in partial neutralization of CO2 emission. To maximize their potential it is unavoidable to divide them into forests that will be allowed to evolve toward natural state and forest predisposed for timber production, supplemented with forest plantations. Natural forests store almost twice more carbon in biomass and soil than managed forests, and carbon contained in wood from plantations and timber-producing forests will be frozen long time in wooden constructions. Gasification of wood debris instead of burning will allow for production of biocarbon that added to soil will residue there through decades, and will decrease necessary amount of artificial fertilizers, which production is an important source of carbon dioxide. Forests evolving to natural state will be less prone to fire and hurricanes, and will better protect biodiversity. Presented project is not contradictory to the project “The Forest Carbon Farms” of State Forests, but allows to reach better results in shorter time and likely at lower cost.

Keywords

PL

EN

CO2 sequestration; natural forests; forest plantations; biocarbon; biodiversity

• Publisher: Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN
• Journal: Nauka
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 4

Dates

published

2019

online

2019-11-18

Contributors

author

Jan Kozłowski