 National Analysis
U.S. forests and croplands currently sequester over 600 teragrams
(Tg) of CO2 equivalent (about 170 Tg or million metric tons
of carbon equivalent), after accounting for both gains and losses in
carbon. This current amount of sequestration in forests
and croplands offsets approximately 12% of total U.S. CO2 emissions
from the energy, transportation and industrial sectors.
Additional land-use and management changes can maintain and enhance these
carbon sequestration levels in the U.S., reduce emissions of other greenhouse
gases, and thus help address the climate change problem.
This section of the Web site provides information for the entire U.S.
in two major areas:
- National Inventory of current
and historic sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions for U.S. agriculture and forestry.
- National Mitigation Analysis
of the potential for additional sequestration and greenhouse gas emission
reductions in U.S. agriculture and forestry.
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