World Deforestation

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World Deforestation

• Ryan Canady
• EDGE Summer 2007

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Annual Deforestation Rates 2000-2005
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Year 2000 Summary
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World Contributions
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Carbon Emissions (per capita per country)
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Global CO2 Emissions in Tonnes
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Reforesting Efforts

• Planting the wrong kind of trees, such as
  monocultures of eucalyptus or pine where they are
  not native species, can devastate the lands of
  the local people.
• A practical solution is to plant tough,
  fast-growing native tree species which begin
  rebuilding the land
• Reforestation, if several native species are used
  can provide other benefits in addition to
  financial returns, including restoration of the
  soil, rejuvenation of local flora and fauna, and
  the capturing and sequestering of 38 tonnes of
  carbon dioxide per hectare per year

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Worldly Data

• Total Average Deforested per year 12,599,000
  Hectares
• 2000-2005 Deforestation 62,995,000 Hectares
• Carbon Sequestration from Native Species 38
  tonnes per hectare per year
• Total Sequestration potential over 5 years
  2,393,810,000 tonnes.

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Reforestation Rates 2000-2005
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Costs

• Mitigation costs through forestry can be quite
  modest (US0.1US20 / metric ton carbon dioxide)
  in some tropical developing countries
• As little as 90 US will plant 900 trees, enough
  to annually remove as much carbon dioxide as is
  annually generated by the fossil-fuel usage of an
  average United States resident

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Carbon Sequestration Diagram
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US Sequestration

• In the United States in 2004 (the most recent
  year for which EPA statistics are available),
  forests sequestered 10.6 of the carbon dioxide
  released in the United States by the combustion
  of fossil fuels. Urban trees sequestered another
  1.5 To further reduce U.S. carbon dioxide
  emissions by 7, as stipulated by the Kyoto
  Protocol, would require the planting of "an area
  the size of Texas 8 of the area of Brazil
  every 30 years", according to William H.
  Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of the
  Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke
  University, in Durham, N.C.. Carbon offset
  programs are planting millions of fast-growing
  trees per year to reforest tropical lands, for as
  little as 0.10 per tree over their typical
  40-year lifetime, one million of these trees will
  fix 0.9 teragrams of carbon dioxide

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What are we doing?

• ABB built the worlds first commercial CO2
  capture facility at its Shady Point, Oklahoma
  coal-fired power plant. It captures 200 tons of
  CO2 a day from the plants flue gas, which is
  purified, liquefied, and sold to the food
  products industry.
• AEP, under DOEs Climate Challenge Tree Planting
  Project, has planted 21,914 acres with nearly 19
  million mixed hardwood and conifer trees at a
  cost of approximately 5.7 million. Projected CO2
  sequestration is 4.7 million metric tons over the
  term of the project. In a separate initiative in
  Louisiana, AEP has planted 9,784 acres with
  nearly 3 million bottomland hardwood trees at a
  cost of 6.25 million. Projected carbon
  sequestration is over 4.4 million metric tons.
• Royal Dutch/Shell is a member of the CO2 capture
  project CO2 Capture Research Project, an
  international effort by seven of the worlds
  leading energy companies.

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• Pacific Gas and Electric Company has submitted a
  proposal to the California Public Utilities
  Commission (CPUC) for a new and innovative
  environmental program that will allow interested
  customers to contribute toward a cleaner
  California.   This voluntary program would be
  available to most of PGEs residential and
  business customers.
• Through the Climate Protection Program,
  customers can choose to sign up and pay a small
  premium on their monthly utility bill which will
  fund independent environmental projects aimed at
  removing carbon dioxide from the air.  To read
  more about this program, click here. 
• In 2004 Weyerhaeuser improved its process for
  inventorying GHG emissions and the carbon stored
  in its forests and products.  The companys
  operations sequestered approximately 26 million
  metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents and
  emitted approximately 7 million tons from the use
  of fossil fuels and other activities.  This
  effectively sequestered 19 million metric tons of
  carbon dioxide equivalent or 0.5 metric tons of
  carbon equivalents per ton of production, an
  improvement of approximately 18 over 2003.