[CANUFNET] Individual Standing Tree Carbon Sink Inventory Calculation?

[Gary Woloshyniuk via CANUFNET]

15 September, 2017
Dear fellow CANUFNET members:
I am in the process of setting up a protocol for determining the carbon
sink potential of our urban forest in Edmonton. We have used UFORE and
Stratum in the past to generate community sink statistics for the pollutant
absorption potential  for our green space, but in this particular case we
need to determine the potential carbon sink value for our boulevard trees
(ornamentals) - individual trees. We have a detailed inventory for our
thousands of individual trees over which we have control and are owned
specifically by the City but realize we can't use a greenspace model to
generate the carbon capture value of our individual tree counts (tree
density considerations are different).

Are any of the CANUFNET membership familiar with any protocols used in
other municipalities that define how to calculate the annual carbon sink
for individual tree counts? We have looked at Tree Canada's "Average
Canadian Tree" value of 2.5 kg/tree/yr (urban) and 2.8 kg/tree/yr (rural)
and this would make life really simple to calculate the annual sink
contribution, but I'm wondering if there is a more rigorous calculation and
related reporting protocol being used for GHG inventory reporting processes
that we could use.

Sincerely,
Gary


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