The Computation of Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) Reduction from Taiwan Frorest Department: A Case Study of Taoyuan County
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Chen, Ming-Wei
Abstract
Taoyuan County is one of the major counties in Taiwan. In 2006, the population has exceeded 1.91 million. There was an aviation town under construction, combining just as followed: the Taiwan Tao-Yuan International Airport, located in this region; the Ching-pu Station of Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) and the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system. Therefore, it is necessary for the interrogation of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) in present for advanced enforcement of reduction policy in the future. The GHG emission amount of Tao-Yuan County is around 37 million tons. There are two directions for the purposes of decreasing the impact caused by GHG emission are the mitigation of carbon dioxide (CO2) and environmental adaptation. The latter one, namely, the construction of sustainable green environment, such as afforestation and intensification the operation of forest. It requires long time available and less impact to industry. However, the long-term accumulative of carbon absorption is considerably significant.ue to the completeness of locally study supported by Taiwan Fir, an aboriginal species in Taiwan, this study focused on this kind of species for fully carbon sink simulation-calculation. Assumed that the density of afforestation is 2,000 trunk/hectare, and the total accumulation amount and carbon absorption amount after 20 years are 0.42 million tons CO2e/hectare and 0.46 million tons CO2e/hectare, respectively. Another planning project is continuously afforestation. After 20 years, also defined as afforestation cycle, it would reach about four hundred million tons CO2e/hectare. This amount is around 12% total GHG emissions for Tao-Yuan County. Therefore, in the long run, it is profitable for GHG reduction caused by continuously afforestation.he land use and forest department of CO2 emission were mainly originated from the alternation of forest and pasture, inclusive of combustion and corruption. The major source of CO2 absorption are the change of forest and other woody carbon stocks , disgarded land, and forest soil. The net carbon absorption of Tao-Yuan County’s land use and Forest in 2006 was 1.6 million tons, and the average CO2 absorption is 378 tons per hectare.
Subjects
Green House Gas
STELLA
Forest
SDGs
Type
thesis
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