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Carbon cycle and carbon fixation

CO2 control, cycling, transformation, and fixation in forests and oceans

8.22Fri 2025

Paper and paperboard also function as social devices that "store and circulate carbon" [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].

私たちの身の回りにある最も身近な「森林由来のマスプロダクト」は、おそらく紙と板紙だろう。メモ帳、新聞、包装紙、 […]

8.12Tue 2025

Why Japan Needs a "Circular Forest Economy" Now: Resource Self-Sufficiency, Lifelong Growth, and a Resident-Financed Platinum Society

As Chairman of the Platinum Initiative Network and former President of the University of Tokyo, I have long been thinking about the future of Japan. Now, the world [...].

7.25Fri 2025

Forest Circular Economy, edited by Hiroshi Komiyama, is a vision for the year 2050: Rebuilding Japan as a resource-rich nation will start with its forests.

The national challenges facing Japan today - carbon neutrality by 2050, regional sustainability, and resource self-sufficiency. These [...]...

7.18Fri 2025

New balance of power between shippers and buyers in the lumber market based on the concept of "local economic circulation and carbon neutrality

The percentage of domestic timber in demand for lumber has recovered to over 40%. Forests that are in the process of being logged or have passed their [...].

7.12Sat 2025

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) Reduces Soil Greenhouse Gas Measurement Time to 1/7 Innovative Technology Contributes to Climate Change Research and Advanced Forest Management

The Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute of the National Forestry Research and Development Institute (NFRI) is a research institute that conducts research on carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from forest soils and its absorption by me [...].

7.10Thu 2025

Realization of carbon neutrality and development of the chemical industry through regional and inter-industry cooperation

With the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to virtually zero by 2050, a multifaceted approach of technology, policy, and regional cooperation around the world [...].

7.9Wed 2025

Carbon Neutrality as a Basis for Biomass Utilization in the Forest Circular Economy Landscape Approach is Key

The argument for wood use in many places is based on the premise that forest biomass is carbon neutral [...].

7.9Wed 2025

Waste Cooking Oil from Homes and Stores Becomes Aviation Fuel Domestic SAF Begins to be Supplied to Regular Passenger Flights

JGC Holdings, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, All Nippon Airways, and Japan Airlines have recently announced a domestic SAF (Sustainable [...]] that uses waste cooking oil as part of its raw material.

7.8Tue 2025

Expanding Possibilities with "Form-Sustaining Cellulose Materials" that Utilize the Superior Natural Structure of Wood [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].

The Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21 in Paris, France in December 2015. This agreement is an agreement that all participants [...].

7.7Mon 2025

Biomass Resources" Contributing to Global Warming Prevention - Forest Circular Economy and Chemical Industry (2)

As a review of the previous issue, let us take another look at the manufacturing process of the chemical industry in Japan, from raw materials to the production of chemical products. [...].

7.4Fri 2025

Can Money Buy Carbon Neutrality? The Forest-Economy Paradox

Before we get into forestry, wood processing, and wood use, there is something to consider: the policy toward carbon neutrality in 2050 [...].

7.1Tue 2025

Achieving Carbon Neutrality through Early-Stage Forestry: The Key is the Material Cycle Perspective, Including Soil [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].

Click here to read the previous article: New Forestry Opportunities Opened Up by Biomass-Producing, Highly Efficient Early-Growth Trees [Cultivating the Future with Carbon Cultivation] Early-Growth Trees [...].

6.30Mon 2025

Cultivating the Future with Carbon Cultivation] Materials and Fuels are "Growing" in the Age of Carbon Cultivation

Click here to read the previous article "Cultivating the Future with Carbon Cultivation" What is the "Create" Idea to Save the Earth? To stop global warming, we need to use carbon [...]

6.20Fri 2025

New Forestry Potential Opened Up by Biomass-Producing, Highly Efficient Fast-growing Trees [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].

The Support Program for the Formation of Places for Co-Creation, centered on TUAT, promotes "carbon cultivation bases that challenge the limits of carbon negativity" [...].

6.17Tue 2025

Direct Economic Effects of Full Utilization of Forest Resources Estimated at 4.7 Trillion Yen in 2050 - Forest Circular Economy (5)

Assuming the development of the forest circular economy described so far, we have estimated the supply and demand of woody biomass and its effects. Biomass chemistry and wood [...].

6.11Wed 2025

Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation] What is the idea of "making" to save the earth?

Greenhouse gases cause global warming. How to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2), the largest of these gases, is the biggest challenge for mankind today [...].

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