Introduction
Climate change is the defining issue of our time and our generation. The challenge is, how to achieve Net Zero?
Forest conservation, forest management, reforestation, and afforestation are essential strategies for achieving carbon dioxide removal (CDR). These strategies also bring positive impacts on nutrients, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. They are low in energy requirement in comparison with other strategies such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage.
While implementing these strategies, it is important to accurately estimate the above-ground biomass (AGB) of forest trees in different forest types in Hong Kong. Hence, we could determine the forest carbon stock of Hong Kong and evaluate the role and potential of reforestation, forest protection, and management in CDR in Hong Kong.
This project aims to use allometric equations or models to determine the forest carbon stock of Hong Kong and thus enable an accurate assessment of the investment in reforestation and forest management in Hong Kong and the CDR achieved over time.
Cooperations
In September 2021, The Conservancy Association (CA) and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) jointly launched the “Forest Carbon Stock Estimation in Hong Kong” project, which is a Nature-based Solutions project under HSBC’s Climate Solutions Partnership.
Learn more：https://csthk21.wixsite.com/website/project-overview
 Forests are an important carbon sink. |
Measuring the diameter at breast height (DBH) of forest trees. |
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Introducing Carbon Forest Estimation Project to volunteers. |
Collecting forest tree data for research purpose. |
