Quantification of carbon stored in the green lands of Goma

Today's climate challenges call for new approaches to understanding and managing ecosystems in all their diversity. This is the context for this study. It aims to assess the contribution of two of Goma's green spaces to reducing global warming by analyzing their floristic diversity and standing carbon stock. Floristic inventories were carried out, including the measurement of tree circumferences. Circumference values were converted into diameters. The results reveal a floristic diversity of 2,426 individual trees of 74 species in 33 families. Biomass was calculated using general allometric equations adapted to urban forests. The quantities of carbon and CO2 accumulated in the trees at both sites were also estimated. We thus found 279.82 and 228.49 tonnes of CO2 stored in the two sites studied: CBCA-Himbi and Lyc嶪 Amani respectively. These are significant quantities to be valorized.