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Assessing Forestry Strategy for Addressing Climate Change and Its Challenges Toward Carbon Neutrality in China

Assessing Forestry Strategy for Addressing Climate Change and Its Challenges Toward Carbon Neutrality in China

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DOI	10.20900/jsr.20240063
刊名	Journal of Sustainability Research JSR
年，卷(期)	2024, 6(3)
作者	Siqi Zhao,Chunho Yeom,Hanjiang Cai*,Qiang Wang,
作者单位	1China National Bamboo Research Center, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou 310012, China; 2International School of Urban Science, University of Seoul, Seoul 02504, Korea; 3Institute of Highland Forest Science, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Kunming 650233, China
Abstract	Background: China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink, in which forests contribute the most, offsets 7%–15% of national anthropogenic emissions by approximately 80%. China’s forestry strategy for addressing climate change has been receiving much attention concerning its role in climate change mitigation and in helping to achieve carbon neutrality.Methods: China’s forestry strategy for addressing climate change was assessed using qualitative data from document analysis and literature review; Challenges toward carbon neutrality were derived from in-depth interviews.Results: A self-developed extension of relevant frameworks were employed to assess China’s forestry strategy for addressing climate change in four aspects: increasing carbon sink, preventing carbon emission, storing harvested wood product carbon, and substituting forestry bioenergy carbon. Challenges and recommendations were presented from a multidimensional perspectiveusing interviews with government officials, experts, and professors.Conclusions: Environmentally, China need to emphasize science-basedand large-scale greening, improve forest quality by precise tending, establish a more climate-resilient and adaptive forest ecosystem, and curb the spread of exotic forest pests through early warning in forestry strategy formulation to maintain and improve the forest carbon sinks and maximize their contribution to carbon neutrality. Socioeconomically, promoting forestry carbon educationand knowledge, enhancing publicity and social awareness of wood and bamboo products via multiple platforms, and balancing the timber supply and demand flexibly without sacrificing the forestry economy’s growth are essential for China. Technically, it is vital toimprove the quality and stability of wood and bamboo products and extend their service life and carbon storage time, make a breakthrough in forest biomass thermochemical conversion andmulti-coupling technology, optimize forest carbon measurement and monitoring system, and carry outresearch on the critical technology of forest sink enhancement.
KeyWord	climate change; carbon neutrality; forestry strategy and policy; carbon emission; forest bioenergy
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Siqi Zhao,Chunho Yeom,Hanjiang Cai*,Qiang Wang. Assessing Forestry Strategy for Addressing Climate Change and Its Challenges Toward Carbon Neutrality in China, Journal of Sustainability Research. 2024; 6; (3). https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr.20240063.

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