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，北方森林可以成为帮助工业制造商抵消温室气体排放和加拿大尊重其国际承诺的特别有用的工具。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建立了一个森林碳管理机构研究主席，以便为北岸和阿比提比-塔姆斯卡明格等地区提供大规模的生态平衡，以抵消其工业排放的温室气体。这里概述的主席及其研究方案的目标是为实施最大限度地在管理森林和采伐木材产品中实现碳固存的战略提供答案和解决办法。这些项目超出了传统的造林项目。相反，它们涉及将碳管理纳入森林管理和造林实践，或者换句话说，改善森林工业的碳平衡。除了抵消工业排放外，这将有助于提高林分生产力，同时考虑到全球气候变化对北方针叶林的影响，因为森林碳动态将直接受到生长和分解变化的影响，也将间接受到自然干扰制度变化的影响。作为拥有若干重要温室气体产生国的工业区，阿比比-塔米斯卡明格和北岸将从实施一个充满活力和创新的研究小组中获益良多，该研究小组的目标是通过对北方森林的新愿景和改进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.