Kota Kinabalu: Surveyors play a pivotal role in climate change mitigation, especially under the reforestation and afforestation strategies, said Asean Federation of Land Surveying and Geomatics (Asean Flag) Honorary President Gerry Ong.
“Forest acts as a vital carbon sink which absorbs and stores carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” he said when met at the 7th Sabah International Surveyors’ Congress, here.
Afforestation is the planting of trees in previously non-forested areas, while reforestation is the replanting of trees in deforested areas.
“These activities are essential for carbon sequestration or the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide, which contributes up to 30 per cent to near-term goals of carbon dioxide offsets,” he said.
