Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways

oleh: Eilidh J. Forster, John R. Healey, Caren Dymond, David Styles

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-06-01

Deskripsi

Afforestation is an important greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategy but the efficacy of commercial (harvested) forestry is disputed. Here the authors apply dynamic life cycle assessment to show that new commercial conifer forests can achieve up to 269% more GHG mitigation than semi-natural forests, over 100 years.