Climate control

By Anjali Baichwal, for Edge - July 2009

Quantifying Canada’s carbon sink

Jing Chen. Photo by JOHN HRYNIUK PHOTOGRAPHY.

Jing Chen. Photo by JOHN HRYNIUK PHOTOGRAPHY.

Canada’s role as a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol raises a lot of questions for Jing Chen. How will planting more trees help Canada meet its Kyoto target? How do we fulfill our Kyoto duty to measure and report on Canada’s carbon emissions? The geography professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecosystem-Atmospheric Interaction is finding answers by quantifying Canada’s carbon sink — the plants and soil that absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

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