Fungi and Carbon Capture
Rhizocore Technologies
Working with symbiotic fungi to grow healthier, more resilient forests.
It was recently reported that fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero (link). This research analysed nearly 200 datasets to provide the first global quantitative estimates of carbon allocation from plants to the mycelium of mycorrhizal fungi. The estimate was that 13.12 Gt of CO2e is, at least temporarily, fixed to the underground mycelium of mycorrhizal fungi per year, equating to ～36% of current annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. Approximately 70% of this is from? ectomycorrhizal fungi or 9Gt of CO2e/annum.
At Rhizocore we believe that fungi play a significant role in carbon sequestration and storage. While it's challenging to provide a precise global estimate of the role of fungi in capturing carbon, reintroducing ectomycorrhizal fungi into tree planting projects of any sort will without doubt increase carbon capture and storage via the fungi themselves or the symbiotic benefits to trees and their increased survivability and growth rates.? Measurements of plant carbon allocation to mycorrhizal fungi have been estimated to be up to 20% of total plant carbon uptake.?
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CCS Specialist, Consultant and Board Member,
8 个月Amazing to read about the role that fungi plays in CSS. The diagram in the article that shows the tonnes of carbon stored is informative. Now I am curious that when I have been walking my dogs in recent years it appears there are so many more fungi. Is this related to the volume of CO2 or just reflects that as I am getting older I. notice these things more?