Carbon Capture by Boreal Afforestation: feasibility for Canada's net-zero emission goals

该提案旨在评估加拿大北方植树造林捕获碳的可行性及其帮助实现2050年净零排放任务的能力。加拿大有很大的植树造林解决方案的潜力；然而，由于缺乏关于在当前和不断变化的气候条件下可能有多少树木复盖率以及复盖率如何取决于地点的现有知识，这些潜力是否可以实现仍然存在重大不确定性。北方植树造林需要让原住民参与进来，并寻求将他们的传统知识与西方科学融合成一个连贯的知识体系。此外，它需要确保对原住民和梅蒂斯工程师进行HQP培训，通过萨斯喀彻温省大学和加拿大第一民族大学(与里贾纳大学联合)等工程学校向下一代提供融合森林管理。我们的初步估计表明，通过帮助在变暖的北极地区植树造林的自然过程，可以捕获大量温室气体，该项目旨在进行详细的研究，减少不确定性，使北方森林和苔原地区北部的林线逐步向前推进。该项目的主要目标是对北方和泰加造林的碳捕获能力进行综合评价。它将包括区域和国家两级的技术和社会经济分析，最终目标是创建一个可行的工具，在考虑到土著传统知识的情况下实现加拿大的净零排放任务。该项目团队来自加拿大多所大学：滑铁卢大学、萨斯喀彻温省大学、蒙雷阿尔理工学院、加拿大第一民族大学、舍布鲁克大学、麦吉尔大学和加拿大工程院。Techaero是一家由First Nation牵头的加拿大中小企业，是该项目的工业合作伙伴，它将每周为该项目投入10个小时，作为帮助整体项目管理的实物贡献，以及贡献知识产权。以上列出的所有团队成员都有丰富的相关经验来执行如此规模的提案。

This proposal aims to evaluate feasibility of Carbon Capture by Boreal Afforestation in Canada and its capacity to help achieve net-zero emission mandate for 2050. Canada has a large potential for afforestation solutions; however, significant uncertainties remain as to whether these potentials are achievable due to the lack of existing knowledge with respect to how much tree cover might be possible under current and evolving climate conditions and how coverage may be location dependent. Boreal afforestation needs to involve First Nations residents and seek to fuse their traditional knowledge with western science into a coherent body of knowledge. Furthermore, it needs to ensure the HQP training of First Nations and Métis engineers to offer the fused forest management to the next generation through engineering schools like U. of Saskatchewan and the First Nations University of Canada (federated with U. of Regina). Our preliminary estimations indicate that a significant amount of greenhouse gas can be captured through assisting the natural process of afforestation in a warming arctic and this project intents to study at a detailed level and reduce uncertainties enabling a gradual tree-line advancement of the northern Boreal Forest and Tundra regions. The main goal of the project is a comprehensive evaluation of Boreal and Taiga afforestation Carbon Capture capacity. It will include technical and socio-economic analysis at regional and national scales with ultimate goal to create a viable tool in achieving Canada net-zero emission mandate taking account of the Indigenous Traditional Knowledge. The project team is drawn from a cross-section of Canadian universities: University of Waterloo, University of Saskatchewan, École Polytechnique Montréal, First Nation University of Canada, Université de Sherbrooke, McGill University and The Canadian Academy of Engineering. Techaero, a First Nation led Canadian based SME, is an industrial Partner for this project, it will devote 10 hours a week to the project as an in-kind contribution helping in overall project management, as well as contributing intellectual property. All team members listed above have extensive relative experience to carry out such scale of proposal.