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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author | Eilidh J. Forster John R. Healey Caren Dymond David Styles |
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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 |
spellingShingle | Eilidh J. Forster John R. Healey Caren Dymond David Styles 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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