Developing adaptative forest carbon management to help offset industrial GHG emissions

由于其在土壤和植被中储存碳的能力，北方森林可以成为一个特别有用的工具，帮助工业制造商抵消他们的温室气体(GHG)排放，并让加拿大遵守其国际承诺。因此，来自私营和公共部门的研究人员和经济行为者联合起来，在9-Iles设立了森林碳管理机构研究教席，以便为北岸和Abitibi-Témiscamingue等地区提供大规模的生态平衡，以抵消其行业排放的温室气体。主席及其在此概述的研究计划的目标是为实施在受管理的森林和采伐的木材产品中最大限度地实现碳封存的战略提供答案和解决方案。这些项目超越了传统的植树造林项目。相反，它们涉及将碳管理纳入森林管理和营林实践，或者换句话说，改善森林工业的碳平衡。除了抵消工业排放，这将有助于提高森林生产力，同时考虑到全球气候变化对北方森林的影响，因为森林碳动态将直接受到生长和分解变化的影响，也将通过自然干扰制度的变化间接影响。作为拥有大量温室气体生产国的工业区，Abitibi-Témiscamingue和北岸可以通过实施一个充满活力和创新的研究小组获得一切好处，其目标是通过北方森林的新愿景和改善其对减缓气候变化的贡献，最终抵消工业活动的大气排放。

Thanks to its capacity for stocking carbon in both soil and vegetation, the boreal forest could be a particularly useful tool for helping industrial manufacturers offset their greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and for Canada to respect its international commitments. Researchers and economic actors from the private and public sectors have thus joined together to create an Institutional Research Chair on Forest Carbon Management based in Sept-Iles, in order to provide regions like the North-Shore and Abitibi-Témiscamingue with a large-scale ecological counterbalance to the GHG emitted by their industries. The goal of the Chair and of its research program outlined here is to provide answers and solutions for the implementation of strategies for maximising carbon sequestration in managed forests and in harvested wood products. These goes beyond traditional afforestation projects. Rather, they involve integrating carbon management into forest management and silviculture practices, or in other words, improving the forest industry's carbon balance. In addition to offsetting industrial emissions, this would help improve forest stand productivity while taking into account the impacts of global climate changes on the boreal forest, as forest carbon dynamics will be affected directly by changes in growth and decomposition, as well as indirectly through changes in natural disturbance regimes. As industrial regions with a number of significant GHG producers, Abitibi-Témiscamingue and the North-Shore have everything to gain from implementing a dynamic and innovative research group with the goal of eventually offsetting the atmospheric emissions of industrial activities through a new vision for the boreal forest and the improvement of its contribution to climate change mitigation.