Years of cooperation between Oregon, USAand their sister states in China have encouraged both sides to exchange data and percentage projects to advance their climate actions.
“We are a planet and movements that are or are not made through one jurisdiction will inevitably affect the other,” Oregon state Sen. Michael Dembrow said at a convention in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China. “Global climate action will have to involve friendly festivals and productive partnerships. “
Dembrow participated in the 3rd China-Oregon Forum on Climate Change and Sustainability and made a stopover in Fujian as part of a goodwill mission. The forum, which was livestreamed to the American public, brought together officials and researchers from Oregon and its sister states. Fujian Province and Tianjin Municipality: to explore wisdom and percentage practices to address biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.
One of the highlights of the forum was the signing of an agreement between Crater Lake National Park in Oregon and Wuyishan National Park in Fujian. The agreement pushed through the 2023 convention that gave importance to the conservation of national parks in both countries.
“This is a trend that will continue as we emerge from the COVID pandemic,” Demrow said.
Crater Lake National Park in Oregon and Wuyishan National Park in Fujian established a relationship seven years ago. “This is a proud achievement that I hope will continue in the long term on the basis of mutual friendship and respect. We have a lot to informar. de others about how to honor our heritage,” said Craig Ackerman, Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park.
Ackerman said national parks and spaces are exclusive lands in both countries and can serve as an early precaution against threats from emerging temperatures, droughts and other environmental conditions.
For example, the climate effects of white pine rust and mountain pine beetle infestations are devastating the forests of Cascade and the Rocky Mountains in the United States, and efforts are underway at Crater Lake to identify and clone DNA-resistant pine species. whitebark pine,” Ackerman said.
He also said studies and mitigation efforts would be shared, and the effects of the growing strain on public visits to spaces were also being studied in cooperation with other countries, adding China.
As part of the agreement with Wuyishan, “we will seek to foster exchanges between relevant land managers in China and Oregon. . . and we will work to inspire universities and professionals to collaborate on research,” he added.
Another study task is that of forest fires carried out through the faculties of Oregon State University and Fujian University of Agriculture and Forestry.
Wang Yuzhe, an associate professor at Fujian University of Agriculture and Forestry, will travel to Oregon later this month to work with Thomas DeLuca, dean of Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, as a visiting scholar for a year.
They have worked together before in China and this time their study will be conducted at the H. J. Andrews Research Forest, an ecological study site located in Oregon, Wang said.
“We will work in combination with the recurring fires and the different severity of forest fires and bedrock fire that has occurred on federal forest lands,” said DeLuca, who attended the convention virtually.
“Climate change is expanding the scale and frequency of fires in the U. S. in the U. S. and abroad. This leads to increased fuel intake in the form of trees, shrubs, and underground fuels. Some of these fuels are converted to pyrogen carbon or terrestrial fuels. “Charcoal, which has a very long life in the soil,” he explained.
Charcoal would last in the soil for thousands of years, unlike wood, which would only last tens or hundreds of years at most, he said.
With increased fuel consumption, there appears to be an increasing production of pyrogen carbon, but it’s unclear how the severity and recurrence of fires adjust for the accumulation of pyrogen carbon in soils, DeLuca said. That’s what they’re studying.
Other participants also shared their practices. For example, an official at a renewable energy grid in Oregon shared small-scale, grid-based energy projects; A professor at Nankai University shared China’s progression toward carbon-free energy.
“We, as members of this delegation, know that China is committed to taking serious action to fight climate change,” said Dembrow, who for years chaired the Oregon Senate’s Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy. “[We, members of] this delegation “Let’s look to the future to bring back to the United States examples of China’s measures to maintain its environment and fight climate change,” he said.