According to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), an international team recently discovered that the contribution of China's forest carbon absorption to the world is underestimated. The report
was published in the scientific journal Nature on October 28. Based on field investigations and satellite observations, researchers analyzed that the scale of carbon dioxide and uptake by newly planted forests in two regions of China was underestimated.
The carbon reduction capacity of China's new forests has surprised experts.
The afforestation area in these two regions has expanded rapidly, and the carbon reduction capabilities they brought have surprised foreign experts. According to the study,
“bold scientific conclusions must be supported by a large amount of evidence, and we have done this in our research.” He told the BBC: “We have collected a series of evidence from field measurements and satellite data, which is very important for China’s carbon The cycle has come to a consistent and tenable statement.”
August 29, 2019, Daxinganling Autumn Forest in Heilongjiang Province
Although carbon dioxide emissions account for about 28% of the world, China has announced that it will strive to achieve carbon emissions by 2060 neutralize. According to the report,
China is an important force for global greening
China’s net zero emission target is crucial to global carbon sink issues and climate change.
In 2019, NASA published a report saying that compared with 20 years ago, the world is getting greener and China is one of the important contributors to this change.
reported that data from NASA’s Earth satellite show that afforestation and agriculture activities in China and India have led the earth’s greening process. "Satellite data (2000-2017) shows that the green belts in China and India are very eye-catching and overlap with farmland around the world."
NASA official website with map China's green belts are an important force leading the world to green, even in the world vegetation in the area is not accounted for, but
column editor: Gu Wanquan Zhang Wuwen word editor: Dong Si Yun
source: author: China Daily
