Yichang adds 1.56 million tons of forest carbon stock in 2022
2023-04-24 19:04:00
By Chen Si, Yichang International Communication Studio
Yichang added 1.56 million tons of new forest carbon stock in 2022, which brought the city’s total volume to 43.89 million tons, the Yichang Municipal Bureau of Forestry and Parks announced on April 22, Earth Day. The addition is equivalent to a new forest carbon sink of 5.73 million tons.
Forest carbon stock is the amount of carbon that has been sequestered from the atmosphere and stored within a forest ecosystem, mainly within living biomass and soil, and to a lesser extent in dead wood and litter.
A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases – for example, plants, the ocean and soil.
Terrestrial ecosystems consist mainly of forests, and forest carbon sinks will be increasingly important in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality.
In recent years, Yichang has completed a survey on the potential of forestry carbon sink resources, established a forestry carbon sink development project bank, cooperated with the Three Gorges Group on a forestry carbon sink research project, and built a municipal forestry carbon sink development platform. These efforts have laid the foundation for giving full play to the function of a forest "carbon bank.”
Up to now, the forest coverage rate of Yichang has reached 68.59 percent along with a forest stock volume of 96.41 million cubic meters. The forest carbon sequestration capacity is gradually improving, and the total forest carbon stock is steadily increasing.
Yichang added 1.56 million tons of new forest carbon stock in 2022, which brought the city’s total volume to 43.89 million tons, the Yichang Municipal Bureau of Forestry and Parks announced on April 22, Earth Day. The addition is equivalent to a new forest carbon sink of 5.73 million tons.
Forest carbon stock is the amount of carbon that has been sequestered from the atmosphere and stored within a forest ecosystem, mainly within living biomass and soil, and to a lesser extent in dead wood and litter.
A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases – for example, plants, the ocean and soil.
Terrestrial ecosystems consist mainly of forests, and forest carbon sinks will be increasingly important in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality.
In recent years, Yichang has completed a survey on the potential of forestry carbon sink resources, established a forestry carbon sink development project bank, cooperated with the Three Gorges Group on a forestry carbon sink research project, and built a municipal forestry carbon sink development platform. These efforts have laid the foundation for giving full play to the function of a forest "carbon bank.”
Up to now, the forest coverage rate of Yichang has reached 68.59 percent along with a forest stock volume of 96.41 million cubic meters. The forest carbon sequestration capacity is gradually improving, and the total forest carbon stock is steadily increasing.
