Reduction of emissions by avoided deforestation in forests of espinal (entre ríos, argentina)

Abstract

We estimated the carbon (C) stored in the total aerial biomass of native forests of the Espinal (Ñandubay District, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina) and the reduction of CO2 emissions by avoided deforestation. In this work, it was used the information reported in the First National Inventory of Native Forests from 2007. The forests from the evaluated area stored a total of 54.48 Tg C, with an average of 38.82 Mg.ha-1. In a zero deforestation scenario from 2020, an emission reduction of the order of 17.7 Tg CO2 would be achieved by 2030, representing 3.7% of the national goal proposed by Argentina not to exceeding, the net emission of 483 Tg CO2 (Nationally Determined Contribution). The Espinal forests conservation also constitutes a mechanism with great potential to generate and commercialize C credits according to the standards of the REDD + mechanism.