Carbon Sequestration and Role of Carbon Emission from Forest Fire on Climate Change

Abstract

Biological transformation of carbon is a primary mechanism for removing carbon from the atmosphere. Standing stock of vegetation plays a major role in carbon sequestration at present as well as in the future. This biospheric carbon sequestration is essentially a huge natural biological scrubber for all emission sources of carbon. An estimated value of 2GtC is removed from the atmosphere each year by the earth's mantle of vegetation. Forest fires the world over due to ever increasing population pressure, release stored carbon into the atmosphere in large quantities every year. Forest fires not only damage the forest wealth but also release huge amount of the secured storage of carbon in the form of forests into the atmosphere. The present paper examines the carbon sequestration and consequences of forest fire carbon emission to the climate.