Free lecture by Werner A. Kurz
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria BC

Wednesday, June 2

8pm, TRU Alumni Theatre

An excerpt…
The unprecedented and escalating human perturbation to the global carbon cycle and the response of the global climate system to increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases are motivating efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of humanity.

Energy produced from renewable biomass resources is contemplated as one of several possible climate change mitigation strategies.  Before embarking on large-scale biomass utilization for energy production, the net greenhouse gas implications of such strategies and their potential to contribute to climate change mitigation must be assessed.

Bioenergy derived from forest biomass is considered carbon neutral primarily because current accounting rules specify that emissions are accounted when the wood is removed from the forest, not when the carbon is actually emitted to the atmosphere.