Carbon sequestration as part of the global warming solution – Using software to combine environmental stewardship with economic benefit

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-165
Author(s):  
Donna St. Jean Conti
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Economic Benefit ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Carbon Trading ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Carbon Sinks ◽  
Carbon Credits ◽  
Modeling Software ◽  
Natural Carbon

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of what carbon sequestration is, how forests are used as natural carbon sinks and how selling carbon credits is proving to be a potentially new revenue stream for organizations and other entities managing large tracks of forested area. Finally, this paper will show how Remsoft’s spatial planning and modeling software system enables efficient and effective management of forests as carbon sinks. Key words: carbon sequestration, carbon credits, carbon trading, forestry, forests as carbon sinks, spatial planning and modeling software, Remsoft

scholarly journals Simulating natural carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean: on uncertainties associated with eddy parameterizations and iron deposition

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1561-1576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiner Dietze ◽  
Julia Getzlaff ◽  
Ulrike Löptien
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Southern Ocean ◽  
Ocean Circulation ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Carbon Uptake ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Biogeochemical Models ◽  
Anthropogenic Carbon ◽  
Natural Carbon ◽  
Oceanic Carbon

Abstract. The Southern Ocean is a major sink for anthropogenic carbon. Yet, there is no quantitative consensus about how this sink will change when surface winds increase (as they are anticipated to do). Among the tools employed to quantify carbon uptake are global coupled ocean-circulation–biogeochemical models. Because of computational limitations these models still fail to resolve potentially important spatial scales. Instead, processes on these scales are parameterized. There is concern that deficiencies in these so-called eddy parameterizations might imprint incorrect sensitivities of projected oceanic carbon uptake. Here, we compare natural carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean simulated with contemporary eddy parameterizations. We find that very differing parameterizations yield surprisingly similar oceanic carbon in response to strengthening winds. In contrast, we find (in an additional simulation) that the carbon uptake does differ substantially when the supply of bioavailable iron is altered within its envelope of uncertainty. We conclude that a more comprehensive understanding of bioavailable iron dynamics will substantially reduce the uncertainty of model-based projections of oceanic carbon uptake.

scholarly journals Estimating Carbon Sequestration Rates and Total Carbon Stockpile in Degraded and Non-Degraded Sites of Oak and Pine Forest of Kumaun Central Himalaya

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 75-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. S. Jina ◽  
Pankaj Sah ◽  
M. D. Bhatt ◽  
Y. S. Rawat
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Oak Forests ◽  
Carbon Trading ◽  
Central Himalaya ◽  
Forest Types ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
The People ◽  
Forest Sites

We calculated the rates at which CO2 is being sequestered in two different forest types of Himalaya. For our comparative study we took the degraded and non-degraded sites of pine and oak forests in Kumaun Central Himalaya. The Van Panchayats (VPs) or Community Forests are managing the nondegraded forest sites for centuries, and from this research we have come to know that the sequestration of CO2 in these non-degraded forests is significantly greater than the degraded forests. The paper recommends the significance of community forests in both Uttarakhand and the world, and advocates that if we want to fight against global warming, we must encourage the community forests and that the people living in severe poverty in these forest areas who become the unsung heroes in the war against global warming, must be paid in lieu of saving their forests, which ultimately become the sink for increased CO2 worldwide. This business or ‘carbon trading' will indeed evolve as the panacea against the war against global warming. Key words: Carbon sequestration, community forests, Van Panchayats, green house gases, global warming, carbon trading.   doi: 10.3126/eco.v15i0.1946 ECOPRINT 15: 75-81, 2008

The Carbon Sink Estimation and Carbon Sink Increase Potential of Jiangmen, China

2013 ◽  
Vol 712-715 ◽  
pp. 3049-3058
Author(s):  
Qiu Ju Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Green Manure ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Carbon Sink ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Carbon Sinks ◽  
Annual Carbon ◽  
Open Forests

The sequestration of forest, farmland, and Green garden carbon inJiangmen City during 2004 to 2010 has been estimated. The biggest carbon sink in 2010 is the forest, with an annual carbon sequestration of ; next is the farmland, with an annual carbon sequestration of . The C uptaken by these two types of carbon sinks accounts for 95% of all the carbon sinks in Jiangmen City. Potentials for the increase of carbon sinks are then discussed. To popularize growing green manure during winter may increase carbon sequestration at about every year. If all the newly established open forests in the whole City in 2010 are fenced for forest conservation, an annual carbon sequestration of may be expected to increase in two years. If the per mu yield of crops below the average of Guangdong Province in 2010 are increased to the average, an annual carbon sequestration of may increase.

Reactive Transport Modeling of Natural Carbon Sequestration in Ultramafic Mine Tailings

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. vzj2011.0053 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.A. Bea ◽  
S.A. Wilson ◽  
K.U. Mayer ◽  
G.M. Dipple ◽  
I.M. Power ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Mine Tailings ◽  
Reactive Transport ◽  
Transport Modeling ◽  
Reactive Transport Modeling ◽  
Natural Carbon

scholarly journals Simulating natural carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean: on uncertainties associated with eddy parameterizations and iron deposition

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiner Dietze ◽  
Julia Getzlaff ◽  
Ulrike Löptien
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Southern Ocean ◽  
Ocean Circulation ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Carbon Uptake ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Biogeochemical Models ◽  
Anthropogenic Carbon ◽  
Natural Carbon ◽  
Oceanic Carbon

Abstract. The Southern Ocean is a major sink for anthropogenic carbon. Yet, there is no quantitative consensus about how this sink will change when surface winds increase (as they are anticipated to do). Among the tools employed to quantify carbon uptake are global coupled ocean-circulation biogeochemical models. Because of computational limitations these models still fail to resolve potentially-important spatial scales. Instead, processes on these scales are parameterized. There is concern that deficiencies in these so-called eddy-parameterizations might imprint wrong sensitivities of projected oceanic carbon uptake. Here, we compare natural carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean simulated with contemporary eddy-parameterizations. We find that very differing parameterizations yield surprisingly similar oceanic carbon in response to strengthening winds. In contrast, we find (in an additional simulation) that the carbon uptake does differ substantially when the supply of bioavailable iron is altered within its envelope of uncertainty. We conclude that a more comprehensive understanding of bioavailable iron dynamics will substantially reduce the uncertainty of model-based projections of oceanic carbon uptake.

scholarly journals Legal issues in carbon farming: Biosequestration, carbon pricing, and carbon rights

Climate Law ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-533
Author(s):  
Nicola Durrant
Keyword(s):  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
International Norms ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Carbon Trading ◽  
Carbon Credits ◽  
Carbon Pricing ◽  
Pricing Mechanism ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Biological Sequestration

This paper critically analyses the proposed Australian regulatory approach to the crediting of biological sequestration activities (biosequestration) under the Australian Carbon Farming Initiative and its interaction with state-based carbon rights, the national carbon-pricing mechanism, and the international Kyoto Protocol and carbon-trading markets. Norms and principles have been established by the Kyoto Protocol to guide the creation of additional, verifiable, and permanent credits from biosequestration activities. This paper examines the proposed arrangements under the Australian Carbon Farming Initiative and Carbon Pricing Mechanism to determine whether they are consistent with those international norms and standards. This paper identifies a number of anomalies associated with the legal treatment of additionality and permanence and issuance of carbon credits within the Australian schemes. In light of this, the paper considers the possible legal implications for the national and international transfer, surrender and use of these offset credits.

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