While older age classes of larger trees provide a reservoir of carbon, younger trees offer higher sequestration rates and absorb more carbon from the atmosphere.
Primarily through the burning of fossil fuels in vehicles and industrial processes and the manufacture of cement, the world’s economies emit 11.7 billion tons of elemental carbon equivalent to 43 billion tons of CO2.
It all begins with an idea. Global forests managed sustainably would more than sequester human caused carbon emissions. Carbon is sequestered in the forest environment through the photosynthetic process. Global forest sequestration of carbon totals approximately 16 billion tons of carbon. However, forests also emit about 8.1 billion tons of carbon back into the atmosphere through deforestation and decay. Net sequestration is estimated to be 7.9 billion tons of basic carbon annually or 28,993 billion tons of the primary greenhouse gas CO2.
Carbon is also stored in forest soils in the form of organic material and charcoal. Leaves, needles, branches, stems and roots comprise the potential forest soils carbon flux.
Global economies in the 21st century will revolve around firstly: energy- where and how we get it and is it sustainable and renewable and secondly: how we manage carbon emissions.
Sustainable forest management and the marketing of commodity forest products (e.g., logs, lumber and pulp) as well as ecological values (e.g., forest and soils carbon as well as water) are the primary goals of Global Forest Resources.
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