This project is a continuation last year’s , project entitled ”The Potential Evaluation and Management strategy of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration in Taiwan”. This year’s research aims to evaluate and reduce the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through implementing the “LULUCF” framework. In addition to updating the international documents on carbon sequestration of terrestrial biosphere and land uses, this project also provides guidance and assistance to county and city governments in Taiwan to establish their own approach in surveying. Compiling and reporting county wide or city wide of terrestrial carbon sink. EPA has successfully given impetus to establish the “air quality purification area”, i.e. AQUAPU, for many years. Therefore, in order to scientifically quantify and understand more about the contribution and added values of carbon sequestration in AQUAPU, the research of this year continues to investigate the trees in urban parks and AQUAPUs and estimate their carbon quantity and growth rate. In addition to last year’s six sample plots, this year will add three more. The investigation method will also follow IPCC’s professional requirement like last year. The results of these investigations will not only help set up the local database on tree carbon growth rate, but also provide suggestions for species selection in order to maximize the benefits of carbon sink in the future. This research also collects and analyzes the latest projects on international terrestrial biosphere carbon trades, so as to provide reference for Taiwan to participate in the international carbon sink trading markets in the future.

Carbon Sequestration , Land Use Change , AQUAPU