Carbon Finance: A market-based mechanism to pay for sequestration and storage of carbon dioxide. Carbon Offset: An action or project (such as the planting of trees or extending rotations) that counterbalances the emission of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases from anthropogenic sources.
Oregon Department of Forestry : Forest carbon accounting : …
Under ORS 468A.259 (i), an accurate forest carbon accounting is required to meet the directive to the Oregon Global Warming Commission (OGWC) to "track and evaluate the carbon sequestration potential of Oregon's forests, alternative methods of forest management that can increase carbon sequestration and reduce the loss of carbon sequestration to...
Introduction to Forest Carbon, Offsets and Markets
Carbon sequestration: The creation of carbon-based glucose in a plant through the process of photosynthesis. Carbon sink : A system that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. Carbon storage : The conversion of glucose …
Climate Change, Carbon and Forests | Research Forests
In the United States, forest land offsets 11% of nationwide greenhouse gas emissions through net sequestration of carbon within woody biomass (Smith et al., 2019). Carbon stocks within individual trees can be conceptually divided into two main pools: …
Oregon Department of Forestry : Climate change : Forest benefits ...
The plan will position Oregon forestry as a regional leader in climate-smart forestry, including both climate-change mitigation and adaptation. The goals are to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, increase carbon sequestration (i.e. storage of carbon in trees), and positively benefit climate-impacted and resource-dependent communities.
Carbon Capture and Storage on Oregon’s Natural & Working Lands
Oregon's natural and working lands — forests, grasslands, rangelands, farmlands, wetlands, and urban parks and open spaces — produce many benefits, including opportunities to capture and store carbon to reduce Oregon's overall/net contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.
• The carbon sequestration potential of Oregon′s forests • Alternative methods of forest management that can increase carbon sequestration and reduce the loss of carbon from wildfire • Changes in the mortality and distribution of tree and other plant species • The extent to which carbon is stored in tree-based building materials
Promote increased understanding of the potential contributions of trees, forests, and forest products in sequestering and storing carbon. Ensure that carbon-offset markets and emerging ecosystem services markets provide easily accessible sources of revenues and do not discriminate against forest landowner participation.
Oregon forestland in all carbon pools, including forest floor and soils, as shown in the graphic on the previous page. HOW MUCH CARBON ARE OREGON’S FORESTS SEQUESTERING? In addition to measuring the carbon stored in the various forest pools, the FIA-ODF carbon inventory for Oregon also estimated the flux, or change, in each of the pools.
SPA Lab | UO UO Environment - University of Oregon
One of trees' most basic functions is to make their own food from sunlight and carbon dioxide. Trees reduce and ultimately store atmospheric carbon in this process, known as carbon sequestration. Because of this, tree planting is promoted as a way to offset emissions. It even has the potential to generate increasingly valuable carbon credits.