title: The global potential for carbon capture and storage from forestry.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Discussions about limiting anthropogenic emissions of CO[Formula: see text] often focus on transition to renewable energy sources and on carbon capture and storage (CCS) of CO[Formula: see text]. The potential contributions from forests, forest products and other low-tech strategies are less frequently discussed. Here we develop a new simulation model to assess the global carbon content in forests and apply the model to study active annual carbon harvest 100 years into the future.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The numerical experiments show that under a hypothetical scenario of globally sustainable forestry the world's forests could provide a large carbon sink, about one gigatonne per year, due to enhancement of carbon stock in tree biomass. In addition, a large amount of wood, 11.5 GT of carbon per year, could be extracted for reducing CO[Formula: see text] emissions by substitution of wood for fossil fuels.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this study indicate that carbon harvest from forests and carbon storage in living forests have a significant potential for CCS on a global scale.
authors.affiliation: Department of Business and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30, 5045 Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Yuanming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.affiliation: Department of Business and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30, 5045 Bergen, Norway ; Centre for Applied Research (SNF), Helleveien 30, 5045 Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Gunnar S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Eskeland
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Jarl
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Giske
authors.affiliation: Department of Business and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30, 5045 Bergen, Norway ; Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Allegt. 55, 5007 Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Jan-Petter
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hansen
keywords: Carbon capture and storage; Global forest; Simulations