While cars, airplanes and factories are busy spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, trees spend much of their time absorbing this harmful greenhouse gas via photosynthesis.
is one of the options available to us," says study co-author Laura Dee, a CU Boulder assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology."Our research aims to make sure projects receiving credits from carbon offset markets are working—and actually storing additional carbon—and identify ways to improve them.
But until the team embarked on this study, no one really knew which strategies developers were actually using. To get a better grasp, the researchers pulled data from two registries that track these projects throughout the nation, including the project's geographic location, size, developer, owner, the year it was registered and the number of offsets issued.
"You hear a lot more focus in the news about planting trees or protecting forests, but right now, most of the credits issued from the California offset registries are really focused on changing forest management practices," says Dee."In contrast, a lot of the analyses assessing investment in forests as nature-based climate solutions haven't looked in detail at different types of improved forest management strategies as they are being implemented on the ground.
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