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- Title
Carbon Offset Service of Urban Park Trees and Desirable Planting Strategies for Several Metropolitan Cities in South Korea.
- Authors
Jo, Hyun-Kil; Park, Hye-Mi; Kim, Jin-Young
- Abstract
Urban parks are essential for offsetting high carbon emissions in cities, which are known to be high emitters. This study quantified carbon uptake and storage in Daejeon and Daegu, two major metropolitan cities in South Korea, and explored planting strategies to promote carbon offset services. Mean carbon uptake and storage per unit area in the study parks were 2.6 ± 0.1 t/ha/yr and 29.9 ± 1.7 t/ha, respectively. The urban park trees of a metropolitan city in South Korea were estimated to annually sequester and store 50 kt/yr and 572 kt of carbon, respectively. This carbon uptake equaled 1.5% of the total annual carbon emissions from residential energy consumption. The economic value of the carbon uptake was equivalent to $3.3 million/yr, which is 1.50% of the annual establishment budget of urban forests of the Korea Forest Service. Planting strategies included reducing unnecessary grass and pavement areas, the active planting of trees in the potential planting space, multilayered planting, and planting tree species with high growth rates. These results are expected to guide policies related to carbon credits, which have recently emerged as major concerns, and to provide useful information for quantifying carbon offset services in greenspace establishment projects.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; TAEGU (Korea); TAEJON-si (Korea); CARBON offsetting; URBAN parks; URBAN trees; TREE planting; HOME energy use; CARBON emissions; CARBON credits
- Publication
Forests (19994907), 2023, Vol 14, Issue 2, p278
- ISSN
1999-4907
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/f14020278