Carbon Capture by Boreal Afforestation: feasibility for Canada's net-zero emission goals

北方造林碳捕获：加拿大净零排放目标的可行性

• 批准号: 577126-2022
• 负责人: Leonenko, YuriY
• 金额: $ 36.43万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=750840
• 关键词: Carbon; Capture; Boreal; Afforestation; feasibility

This proposal aims to evaluate feasibility of Carbon Capture by Boreal Afforestation in Canada and its capacity to help achieve net-zero emission mandate for 2050. Canada has a large potential for afforestation solutions; however, significant uncertainties remain as to whether these potentials are achievable due to the lack of existing knowledge with respect to how much tree cover might be possible under current and evolving climate conditions and how coverage may be location dependent. Boreal afforestation needs to involve First Nations residents and seek to fuse their traditional knowledge with western science into a coherent body of knowledge. Furthermore, it needs to ensure the HQP training of First Nations and Métis engineers to offer the fused forest management to the next generation through engineering schools like U. of Saskatchewan and the First Nations University of Canada (federated with U. of Regina). Our preliminary estimations indicate that a significant amount of greenhouse gas can be captured through assisting the natural process of afforestation in a warming arctic and this project intents to study at a detailed level and reduce uncertainties enabling a gradual tree-line advancement of the northern Boreal Forest and Tundra regions. The main goal of the project is a comprehensive evaluation of Boreal and Taiga afforestation Carbon Capture capacity. It will include technical and socio-economic analysis at regional and national scales with ultimate goal to create a viable tool in achieving Canada net-zero emission mandate taking account of the Indigenous Traditional Knowledge. The project team is drawn from a cross-section of Canadian universities: University of Waterloo, University of Saskatchewan, École Polytechnique Montréal, First Nation University of Canada, Université de Sherbrooke, McGill University and The Canadian Academy of Engineering. Techaero, a First Nation led Canadian based SME, is an industrial Partner for this project, it will devote 10 hours a week to the project as an in-kind contribution helping in overall project management, as well as contributing intellectual property. All team members listed above have extensive relative experience to carry out such scale of proposal.

该提案旨在评估加拿大北方造林碳捕获的可行性及其帮助实现 2050 年净零排放任务的能力。加拿大在造林解决方案方面具有巨大潜力，但由于这些潜力是否可以实现，仍然存在很大的不确定性；由于缺乏关于在当前和不断变化的气候条件下可能有多少树木覆盖以及覆盖范围如何取决于地点的现有知识，需要原住民居民参与并寻求融合他们的传统知识。此外，它需要确保原住民和梅蒂斯工程师的总部培训，通过萨斯喀彻温大学和加拿大原住民大学等工程学校向下一代提供融合森林管理。 （与里贾纳大学联合）我们的初步估计表明，通过协助变暖的北极造林的自然过程可以捕获大量的温室气体，该项目旨在进行详细的研究并减少不确定性，从而实现该项目的主要目标是对北方森林和针叶林地区的碳捕获能力进行全面评估，最终目标将包括区域和国家范围内的技术和社会经济分析。考虑到土著传统知识，创建一个实现加拿大净零排放任务的可行工具 该项目团队来自加拿大大学的各个部门：滑铁卢大学、萨斯喀彻温大学、巴黎综合理工大学。蒙特利尔、加拿大原住民大学、舍布鲁克大学、麦吉尔大学和加拿大原住民领导的中小企业 Techaero 是该项目的工业合作伙伴，它将每周投入 10 个小时用于该项目。有助于整体项目管理以及贡献知识产权的实物贡献 上述所有团队成员都拥有执行此类规模提案的丰富相关经验。