The comparative analysis of the carbon stocking potential by the European agricultural and forestry systems

The goal of the present paper resides in the comparative analysis of the statistical FAOSTAT data and information in the last 25 years, for the EU countries and other European countries, completed with data and information from the well known literature and from webographics, refering to the multi-functionality, evolution, dynamics and importance of the potential of grasslands and forests as reservoirs of carbon absorbtion and stocking from the greenhouse gases, respectively atmosphere CO2, and its stocking into organic carbon from the soil and from the live bio-mass of the forestry vegetation. In the paper, we made a short summary of the natural and artificial processes, biological, physical, and chemical ones, to which the researchers are working experimentally for the capture and stocking of the atmosphre carbon from the natural or anthropic emissions in agriculture, industry, transports or circular economy. Data and information utilized have evidenced that the cultivated land areas and some zones with peatlands are big transmitters of CO2. At Europe Continent’s level and by geographical regions, we can see that in the period 1995-2017/2018 there diminished the permanent grasslands and that only in the Scandinavian states and in the Russian Federation these ones inccreased their areas. In dynamics, the area of the European forests increased by almost 2%, but it could have increased by another 7 %, if they had not been destroyed in fires, their highest share being produced in the Russian Federation (96%). Nevertheless, half of the live forest bio-mass quantity owned is to be found in the Russian Federation, which is champion by the area owned, being four times bigger than the rest of the European states. With all this, the carbon from the live forest bio-mass per area unit is the biggest in the forests in the West and East of the continent, the rest of the regions and the Russian Federation havving a value of the indicator almost equal to average.