CSIRO confirms carbon capture is viable part of solution

24 August 2009

CSIRO confirms carbon capture is viable part of solution

CSIRO's Sustainable Agriculture Flagship has released An Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Carbon Biosequestration Opportunities from Rural Land Use, investigating the greenhouse gas mitigation and storage potential of changes in rural land-use in Queensland and more broadly, Australia.

The results revealed that forestry and forest-related land management changes had the most significant potential for capturing carbon, making up about 75% of the total attainable for Queensland.  

These forestry options (some which overlap) include:

• carbon forestry
• biodiversity plantings
• pre-1990 eucalypts
• post-1990 plantations
• managed regrowth

Like Greenfleet, the CSIRO recommends carbon capture as part of the solution, not the entire solution.  There is still a need for every one of us to cut down on fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas generation, but there is potential for the capture of carbon in forests and other sustainable land-uses.