%0 Journal Article
%T Plant Cultivation: A Strong and Sustainable Response to CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions
%A Arnaud Muller-Feuga
%J Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection
%P 68-88
%@ 2327-4344
%D 2024
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/gep.2024.1210005
%X According to the quantities of plant and animal products placed on the world market in 2022, agriculture and forestry captured 20.1 &#177; 1.5 billion tonnes (Gt or Pg) of CO<sub>2</sub>, with a weighted mean duration of the corresponding storage of 10.9 &#177; 3.3 years. These figures are supplemented here by the unharvested above-ground and below-ground parts of plants that are left in place and increase the soil organic carbon pool. This brings the capture by cultivated whole plants to 41.0 &#177; 0.6 GtCO<sub>2</sub>, and the storage duration weighted mean to 26.3 &#177; 2.0 years in 2022. This was the largest global contribution to the reduction of atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> by amplitude and duration, which bio-remediated the global anthropogenic emissions totally, cancelling their influence on climate. The enrichment of the atmosphere with CO<sub>2</sub> comes probably from the ocean, which could be a source and not a sink. Complementary approaches, freed from doctrinal preconceptions, should make it possible to clarify further the compensations of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions by plants and their environmental consequences.
%K Carbon
%K Capture
%K Storage Duration
%K Whole Plants
%K Ocean
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=136848