Burnaby, BC, will adopt the Zero Carbon Step Code for larger buildings like condos and smaller residential homes beginning 2024, to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
New data maps global carbon flux in forests, allowing us to quantify CO2 emissions and sequestration in areas ranging from local forests to countries to continents.
The world is getting a better understanding of just how important forests are in the global fight against climate change.
New research, published in Nature Climate Change and available on Global Forest Watch, found that the worldâs forests sequestered about twice as much carbon dioxide as they emitted between 2001 and 2019. In other words, forests provide a âcarbon sinkâ that absorbs a net 7.6 billion metric tonnes of CO2 per year, 1.5 times more carbon than the United States emits annually.
Unlike other sectors, where carbon makes a one-way trip to the atmosphere, forests act as a two-way highway, absorbing CO2 when standing or regrowing and releasing it when cleared or degraded.