Carbon Storage Dynamics of Forest Growing Stock around National Thermal Power Plant Sipat Bilaspur Chhattisgarh Central India

Abstract

Global awareness of environmental issues has surged to an unprecedented scale, newlinehighlighting critical concerns such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity, global newlinewarming, climate change, urbanization, and industrialization. These issues are newlineintricately linked to terrestrial ecosystems, and global carbon cycle. Forests help newlinestabilize CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, thus mitigating the adverse effects of newlineglobal climate change. newlineMy research is on the carbon storage dynamics of forest growing stock around the newlineNational Thermal Power Plant in Sipat, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, Central India. The newlinestudy is driven by global concerns about CO2 emissions and their impact on climate newlinechange. Through this research, I have addressed four main objectives: Tree inventory newlinewhich provides comprehensive information of the tree species in studied area. newlineEstimation of leaf dust load and its effect on trees. Carbon stock and carbon newlinesequestration potential of tree species; it provides the information about the capacity newlineof different tree species to absorb and store carbon from the atmosphere. Assessing newlineefficient tree species for plantation in and around industrial areas based on their Air newlinePollution Tolerance Index. newlineThis work not only contributes to our understanding of forest ecosystems and their newlinerole in carbon sequestration but also offers practical solutions for mitigating pollution newlineand enhancing environmental sustainability around industrial areas.