{"id":6293,"date":"2023-05-04T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T09:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2023-05-04T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T09:47:33","slug":"study-finds-simple-cheap-way-to-use-forests-to-slow-global-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/study-finds-simple-cheap-way-to-use-forests-to-slow-global-climate-change","title":{"rendered":"Study finds simple, cheap way to use forests to slow global climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Jack (Francis) Putz is so buoyed by the finding that he and nine international co-authors have called for all countries with\u00a0tropical forests<\/a>\u2014including Australia\u2014to include the simple practice in their national carbon policies.<\/p>\n

“If we are to scale\u00a0natural climate solutions<\/a>\u00a0at the pace needed to avoid a global climate catastrophe, we need effective, low-cost, no-regrets practices that can be implemented immediately,” said the Professor of Forest Ecology and Management who recently joined UniSC to continue his work.<\/p>\n

“This research shows why we should cut lianas (woody climbing vines) and suggests how government and\u00a0private landowners<\/a>\u00a0can do it, to achieve benefits for the environment and the economy via the timber industry.<\/p>\n

“Widespread adoption of liana removal is more likely if it is incorporated into national carbon policy frameworks.”<\/p>\n

Professor Putz was senior author on a paper published on the research in\u00a0Forest Ecology and Management<\/i>\u00a0with his previous University of Florida, as well as The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Eastwood Forests in the United States and Science for Sustainability in Central America.<\/p>\n

“Lianas are great in some ways, but they compete with trees and other vegetation for sunlight,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Liana infestations affect a quarter of the world’s one billion hectares of selectively logged forest, primarily in the tropics, and this is intensifying with human interventions and\u00a0climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Our research found that cutting lianas from a minimal number of trees destined for harvest\u2014just five trees per hectare\u2014would increase\u00a0carbon sequestration<\/a>\u00a0and contribute to timber yields to improve local livelihoods.<\/p>\n

““Forest managers<\/a> with access to voluntary carbon markets could also diversify their incomes.<\/p>\n

“With the cost of the treatment estimated at less than $USD1 per ton of CO2, it’s an attractive opportunity for countries to both meet their climate action<\/a> goals and\u2014given current carbon market prices of $10\u201320 per ton of CO2\u2014boost the economic potential of selectively logged forests.”<\/p>\n

He said the same treatment could also benefit biodiversity<\/a> in forests not destined for logging.<\/p>\n

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Spending $1.50 per hectare to prune climbing vines from the world’s selectively logged forests could remove 800 million metric tons of carbon<\/a> dioxide from the atmosphere over 30 years, according to new research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Jack (Francis) Putz is so buoyed by the finding that he and nine international co-authors have called for all countries with\u00a0tropical forests\u2014including Australia\u2014to include the simple practice in their national carbon policies. “If we are to scale\u00a0natural climate solutions\u00a0at the pace needed to avoid a global climate catastrophe, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6298,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions\/6298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}