Carbon Sequestration
Putting a Value on the Ecosystem Services Provided by Forests in Canada:
Case Studies on Natural Capital and Conservation

Natural Capital Valuation:
"Long Tusket Lake provides an excellent example of the many societal benefits provided by the Acadian forest. Significant carbon storage and sequestration is provided by the mix of hardwood and softwood forests. Nitrogen dioxide, ozone and other non-carbon atmospheric pollutants are also significantly reduced, while the wetlands within the property help provide flood control for downstream communities. As a result, the Acadian forest is found to be one of the more valuable forest types from a natural capital perspective, providing approximately $26,250 in annual benefits per hectare per year (based on the Long Tusket Lake property)."
Details - 37 page pdf, March 2017
Prepared by TD Bank Group & the Nature Conservancy of Canada

• Forests Absorb Twice As Much Carbon As They Emit Each Year
  
  Harvesting in old-growth forests releases CO2 that has taken centuries to accumulate - carbon that, once lost, is irrecoverable in our lifetime.
  
  Overall, data shows that keeping existing forests standing remains our best hope for maintaining the vast amount of carbon forests store and continuing the carbon sequestration that, if halted, will worsen the effects of climate change.
  
  While planting new trees (the right way) or letting them regrow naturally can play a role in mitigating climate change (and helping communities adapt to its effects), new data shows forests that have sprouted up in the past 19 years represent less than 5% of the current global forest carbon sink.
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• Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage
  
  re: Forests East of Cascade Crest, US Pacific Northwest
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• Meet the people saving Canada's native grasslands
  Grasslands sequester billions of tonnes of carbon and support hundreds of plant species and over 60 species at risk.
  They are also one of the world's most endangered ecosystems
  July 31, 2020
• Forests - Feedback loops: climate change
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  The world's forests are responsible for removing 25% of all human carbon emissions from the atmosphere and cooling the planet. But that fraction is shrinking as the three major forests of the world - tropical, boreal, and temperate - succumb to the effects of climate feedback loops. Rising temperatures result in dryer conditions, more fires, more insects and fewer trees which raises temperatures and increases die back. Tipping forests from net carbon absorbers to net carbon emitters, heating rather than cooling the planet, is not only predicted, it will happen without determination and ingenuity.
  
  Today, 17% of global climate emmisions are the result of logging and burning pellets for energy. This is not sustainable. Our survival depends on protecting and expanding forests as well as preserving marshlands and grasslands.
  Video 14:10

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