Direct measurement forest carbon protocol: a commercial system-of-systems to incentivize forest restoration and management.

ABSTRACT: Forest carbon sequestration offsets are methodologically uncertain, comprise a minor component of carbon markets and do not effectively slow deforestation. The objective of this study is to describe a commercial scale in situ measurement approach for determination of net forest carbon sequestration projects, the Direct Measurement Forest Carbon Protocol™, to address forest carbon market uncertainties. In contrast to protocols that rely on limited forest mensuration, growth simulation and exclusion of CO₂ data, the Direct Measurement Forest Carbon Protocol™ is based on standardized methods for direct determination of net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of CO₂ employing eddy covariance, a meteorological approach integrating forest carbon fluxes. NEE is used here as the basis f

SUBMITTER: Marino BDV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7192159 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature