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Can boreal afforestation help offset incompressible GHG emissions from Canadian industries?

Boucher Jean-François, Tremblay Pascal, Gaboury Simon et Villeneuve Claude. (2012). Can boreal afforestation help offset incompressible GHG emissions from Canadian industries? Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 90, (6), p. 459-466.

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URL officielle: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.psep.2012.10.011

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To mitigate greenhouse gas and comply with cap-and-trade systems, the carbon capture and storage (CCS) is presently unviable for industrials dealing with low concentration of CO2 emissions. Alternatively, a new offset opportunity is being analysed in Canada: the afforestation of open woodlands (OWs) in the boreal territory. The results obtained from model simulations (with CBM-CFS3) showed that afforestation of boreal OWs can be a low C-intensive mitigation activity, in particular when understory planting is the chosen silvicultural approach, so that only 8–12 years are needed to reach a net positive C balance with the afforestation of OWs. A large-scale afforestation of boreal OWs – scheduled at 20 kha per year during 20 years for a maximum of 400 kha – could provide capped industrials with a significant offset potential, for instance up to nearly 8% offset of all Québec industrial process emissions (2009 data) after 45 years. In spite of a certain number of issues that can contribute to the uncertainty of the real environmental and economical benefits from the afforestation of OWs as a mitigation activity – most of which issues are discussed in this paper – this study presented a first glimpse at the extent to which the afforestation of boreal OWs in Québec can provide large emitters with eventually substantial and efficient GHG offset potential, especially those emitters tied up with incompressible GHG emissions.

Type de document:Article publié dans une revue avec comité d'évaluation
Volume:90
Numéro:6
Pages:p. 459-466
Version évaluée par les pairs:Oui
Date:2012
Sujets:Sciences naturelles et génie > Sciences appliquées > Climatologie et météorologie
Sciences naturelles et génie > Sciences appliquées > Foresterie et sciences du bois
Sciences naturelles et génie > Sciences naturelles > Biologie et autres sciences connexes
Département, module, service et unité de recherche:Départements et modules > Département des sciences fondamentales
Unités de recherche > Carbone boréal
Mots-clés:afforestation, boreal forest, climate change, GHG emissions, mitigation, smelters
Déposé le:16 déc. 2015 01:47
Dernière modification:17 juin 2024 19:30
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