Untouched Natural Forests Have 60% More CO2 Storage Capacity than Plantation Forests

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Researchers from Australian National University (ANU) reveal untouched natural forests have the potential to stock up 3 times more CO2 than formerly thought, which makes their storage capacity around 60% more than that of plantation forests.

The researchers, who have conducted a study on ‘green carbon’, further claim that UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not differentiate between storage capacity of untouched and plantation forests; at present, the perceived amount of CO2 forests can store is based on calculations that are true for plantation forests but are significantly less than the capacity of untouched forests.

The researchers also blamed a variation in forest’s definition for the dispute.