Forests and Climate Change
Forests represent the most significant terrestrial carbon stockThey contain:
–77% of all carbon stored in vegetation –39% of all carbon stored in soils
(Eliasch Review )
IUCN, INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE
Forests sequester and store more carbon (per hectare) than anyother type of land cover Accounted for 17.4% of global GHG emission in 2004,Equivalent to 49 GtCO
2
eqv./ yr.
(IPCC-FAR, 2007)