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Carbon sequestration: Managing forest in uncertain times

2014-02-15 15:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature: The best way to manage forests to store carbon and to mitigate climate change is hotly debated. Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and wood can be a substitute for fossil fuels and carbon-intensive materials such as concrete and steel. In the past few decades, the world's forests have absorbed as much as 30% (2 petagrams of carbon per year; Pg C year-1) of annual global anthropogenic CO2 emissions1 -- about the same amount as the oceans. Two-thirds of forests are managed. Much has...

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