What is the carbon sink of the forest?
A forest’s carbon sink means that more carbon dioxide is bound into the forest than is released into the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide is a life-sustaining gas. It is necessary for communication; plants turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and a sugar called glucose with the power of sunlight. Sugar trees continue to convert into other substances, such as cellulose. Trees take carbon dioxide from the air and store it as carbon in themselves.
Carbon dioxide is produced when a substance containing carbon is burned or decomposes in some other way.etaan tai se hajoaa muuten. Carbon dioxide is also produced when breathing. You often hear the saying “forests are the lungs of the earth”. They are not: forests produce oxygen, lungs produce carbon dioxide. All the same, plants that produce oxygen are necessary for life.
What is carbon dioxide and how is it stored in wood?
Carbon dioxide is a life-sustaining gas. It is necessary for communication; plants turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and a sugar called glucose with the power of sunlight. Trees take carbon dioxide from the air and store it as carbon in themselves.
As trees grow, they store carbon in the trunk, branches, roots and leaves. Carbon is bound to the soil in the soil. Carbon is naturally released back into the air as carbon dioxide when wood and wood chips decay. When wood is used, carbon is stored or released, depending on what is made of the wood.
The wooden house is a long-term coal storage, the clapperboard and newspaper are short-term. The wooden product can be burned for energy or recycled. Wood-based energy is also produced as a by-product of pulp processes.
How can the amount of carbon dioxide be known?
The number of trees is calculated, in connection with which the exact GPS location data, tree species, length and thickness at chest height are recorded. This information can be used to calculate the amount of trees in the area by tree species, i.e. solid cubes. One solid cube has different specific weights depending on the wood species, pine approx. 550kg , spruce approx. 470kg and birch approx. 740kg .. About 50% of this amount 50% is coal. The bound carbon is converted into carbon dioxide by a factor of 3.67 ( the molecular ratio of carbon dioxide and carbon
is 44/12=3.67 ).
How does carbon dioxide affect global warming?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a colorless and odorless gas, which in itself is harmless. We produce carbon dioxide every time we exhale. CO2 is an important part of the natural cycle between plants, animals and humans. In the atmosphere, CO2 lets sunlight through, but prevents the sun’s heat radiation from being reflected back into space, causing the climate to warm.
How much carbon dioxide does a pine forest planted in a peat production area bind?
The calculation is based on a 100-year tree growing period, during which an area of 1 ha of a former peat production area reforested for pine binds a total of 323.6 tons of carbon to the soil and trees compared to previous land use ( former peat production area, nutrient-rich lingonberry peat fabric ). When the planting density is 2,000 saplings/hectare, the share of one planted sapling is 161.8 kg of compensated carbon over 100 years. The bound carbon is converted into carbon dioxide by a factor of 3.67 ( the molecular ratio of carbon dioxide and carbon is 44/12=3.67 ), so the amount of bound carbon dioxide is
594 kg per tree over 100 years.
What is the EU ETS?
EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
The EU’s emissions trading applies to all flights departing from and arriving at airports in the European Economic Area, unless they are excluded from the scope of the emissions trading on special grounds. In the years 2013-2023, however, the emissions trading applies only to flights between airports located in the European Economic Area.
Like emissions trading for fixed installations, emissions trading for aviation is also based on exchangeable emission rights. Air transport emissions trading has been nationally implemented by the Act on Air Transport Emissions Trading (34/2010).
The air traffic emissions trading system will be a semi-open system until 2020. Airlines can use emission rights of fixed installations (EUA) to fulfill their obligations, but fixed installations cannot use air transport emission rights to fulfill their obligations according to the Emissions Trading Act. The restriction will be removed at the beginning of 2021.
The Ministry of Transport and Communications is responsible for air traffic emissions trading in Finland. In Finland, the Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi) and the Energy Agency carry out official duties according to the law. T he Finnish Transport Safety Agency is responsible for, among other things, the allocation, monitoring and reporting of distributed emission rights. The Energy Agency, on the other hand, is responsible for recording and managing emissions trading rights and for generating revenue from auctions for the state.
What is blockchain?
Blockchain is definitely one of the biggest global megatrends today. Every cryptocurrency is based on blockchain technology and its basic principles are important to understand. Blockchain technology has very high expectations around the world. It is often argued that blockchain technology is by far the biggest technological revolution since the invention of the Internet.
Blockchain is a technology that allows blockchain parties to create and maintain various decentralized and shared databases. A blockchain is a decentralized and usually public digital “ledger” made up of blocks that are used to record transactions. One of the trust-enhancing features of blockchain is that blocks cannot be changed afterwards. The biggest advantages of blockchain are definitely security and trust.
What does ZertiCarbon's app contain and who does it serve?
The basic idea of our Zerti Carbon application is to offer a comprehensive service that connects forest owners with customers who need carbon sink solutions based on the blockchain platform. As a blockchain itself, our application is secure and fully transparent – our customers have access to every step of the process – from locating real forests to purchasing NFT and CO2 tokens.
In addition to this, we provide comprehensive information on forest ownership and the value of carbon dioxide tokens based on highly accurate mathematical formulas related to the GPS data of each individual tree and its ability to sequester carbon dioxide.
How much does 1 ton of carbon dioxide sequester cost?
Price on 31 December 2021 = 80.65 EUR/tn
How much can 1 hectare of former forested peat production area produce at the price of 31.12.2021 per year and during the lifetime?
Year: 11.88 x 80.65 EUR = 958.122 EUR
100 years = life cycle: 11.88 x 100 x 80.65 EUR = 95,812.2 EUR