Forest Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation: Management Oriented to Carbon Capture and Storage

Climate

NunoM.C. Almeida Ribeiro¹  LeonelJ.R. Nunes¹  CatarinaI.R. Meireles¹  CarlosJ. Pinto Gomes¹ 

[1] ICAAM—Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Universidade de Évora, 7000-083 Évora, Portugal;

关键词: forest management;    climate change;    carbon sinks;    carbon cycle;   

DOI  :  10.3390/cli8020021

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Today, climate change is assumed by many researchers and scholars as a certainty and is presented as the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. It is commonly accepted that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause that is accelerating the process. Therefore, it is urgent to find solutions to mitigate climate change, mainly because the intense effects have already been felt, in many cases in the form of the occurrence of extremely violent weather events. Forests are undoubtedly one of the most effective and easiest ways to provide the function of carbon sinks. However, it is essential and convenient to analyze the permanence time of this carbon in forests, because this permanence time depends directly on the forest management model used. This article aims to analyze forest management models from the perspective of carbon residence time in temperate forests, dividing the models into three types, namely carbon conservation models, carbon storage models, and carbon substitution models, according to their ability to contribute to functioning as carbon sinks, thereby contributing to the mitigation of climate change.

【 授权许可】

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