Carbon sequestration: how much can forestry sequester CO2?

Abstract

Sequestration in its concept is very complex which has been applicable to rates though vary greatly in consideration of age, composition, location of any forests and soil type. This provoking presentation seeks to question and recapture the view of how much CO2 does a tree take up? The emergence of climate change and global warming has been identified by scientist and occur frequently. This phenomenon is been triggered by anthropogenic (human) activities thereby the discharge of large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In a general scientific term, one way of reducing the emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is to store carbon or CO2 in any medium other than the atmosphere. The biological and geological mediums are two major and vast different ways of carbon sequestration. Land and forests have been accounted huge potential source of storing and referred as natural scrubbers or natures “carbon sinks”. The process of photosynthesis permits green plants to uptake CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it into organic carbon as they grow and in turn organic carbon is converted back to CO2 when it is eaten or decomposed known as the process of respiration. This is to say, activities that increase photosynthesis and/or decreases respiration is regarded of great advantage in the global carbon reduction. Terrestrial and mostly trees (plants) store the most carbon because of large volume storage and long–lived storage. Various parts of plants as trunks, leaves, wood, roots as well as the soil in which the plants are fixed as do not decompose or burn, stores carbon from the atmosphere. Plants of all categories as well as non tilled fields and grasslands are carbon sinks and storage and thereby store organic carbon in the soil. On global rating, soil carbon sequestration could offset as much as 15 percent of fossil fuel emissions. This mini review paper hereby supports activities that have carbon sinking benefits such as improved soil quality, increased crop yields, and some wildlife habitat conservation approaches. Problem significant