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

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 forest...

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Main Authors: Eilidh J. Forster, John R. Healey, Caren Dymond, David Styles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24084-x
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description 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.
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spelling doaj.art-2e7dd6a2bca74f4fbb6c1f40b9cea3062022-12-21T21:34:27ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232021-06-0112111210.1038/s41467-021-24084-xCommercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathwaysEilidh J. Forster0John R. Healey1Caren Dymond2David Styles3School of Natural Sciences, Bangor UniversitySchool of Natural Sciences, Bangor UniversityGovernment of British ColumbiaSchool of Natural Sciences, Bangor UniversityAfforestation 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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24084-x
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Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways
Nature Communications
title Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways
title_full Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways
title_fullStr Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways
title_full_unstemmed Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways
title_short Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways
title_sort commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24084-x
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