Native forests are the best natural solution to climate change

2023-04-16 15:00:00

Besides being one of the major carbon reservoirs on Earthlos native forests are the best natural solution to face climate change, according to the Sixth Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC for its acronym in English), which was recently released publicly.

Yes ok. to global scaleit is estimated that the amount of carbon currently present in the living biomass of vegetation is between 450 and 650 gigatonsthese important carbon pools are not immune nor to the trace generated by the human activity or change in land use,

As pointed out from the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) the forest management is of vital importance in order to ensure that forests continue to fulfill their role as carbon reservoirsin addition to the numerous goods and Ecosystem services that they provide to society.

“Losing forests is also losing the ability to fix carbon in a climate change framework“, he claimed Pablo Peri, coordinator of the INTA Forestry Program,

“Therefore, it is necessary incorporate it into the productive matrix as a provider of ecosystem servicesespecially with regard to forestry production, because a forest under sustainable timber forest management fixes carbon”added the specialist.

In the specific case of the ArgentinaPeri stressed that the use sustainable use of the native forest is an activity that generates employment and wealth in most of the forested territories that it has.

“From the INTA Forestry Program Wanted drive innovation and contribute to the sustainable development of a competitive forestry sectorinclusive, equitable and careful of the environment, through research, extension, technology development the contribution to the formulation of public policies, and the articulation and national and international cooperationPeri pointed out.

“While the The Chaqueño Park forest can fix around 0.26 tons of carbon per hectare per year; the Patagonian forests of ñire, 0.45 tons of carbon per hectare per year; the missionary jungle up to 3.25 tons of carbon per hectare per year and the region of the mountain with algarrobales, 0.17 tons of carbon per hectare per year. Hence the great importance of native forests not only in Argentina but throughout the world for naturally combat and minimize the effects of climate change”, concluded the INTA expert.