Following the project from last year, ”The Optimum Carbon Assessment, Management and Supervision for Terrestrial Biosphere in Taiwan”, the continuous project of this year aims to provide substantial strategy to evaluate and reduce the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through implementing the “LULUCF” framework. This project has focused on the following aspects: 1. update the latest international key documents and strategies (particular on United States and Australia) on biosphere carbon sequestration, calculation, land use and forest policy; 2. Suggest the approaches to evaluate terrestrial biosphere of Taiwan carbon sequestration, and the optimum management strategy. The project also applies IPCC’s spirit and approaches to evaluate the annual change of carbon sink in Taipei City in order to establish a reference model for other counties and cities in Taiwan, so as to help achieve the goal of reduction of greenhouse gas emission. EPA has successfully given impetus to establish the “air quality purification area”, i.e. AQUAPU, for many years. In addition to quantify the contribution and the added values of carbon sequestration in AQUAPU, and furthermore apply such statistics to all green areas in settlements and urban regions, this project also continues to investigate the trees in parks and AQUAPUs and estimate their carbon amount and growth in the same six sample plots since last year. The result of the investigation will not only help set up the local database, but also provide suggestions for potential selection of species and layout of trees in AQUAPU to maximize the benefits of carbon sink in the future.

Carbon Sequestration , Land Use Change , Green Space, AQUAPU