Globally, forests play a significant natural role, as they absorb and sequestrate carbon that would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. This carbon sequestration mitigates the phenomenon commonly known as the greenhouse effect, which helps slow down the rate of climate change. One of the forest management strategies that could promote carbon storage is tree selection through genomics. Trees’ genetic information could be used to learn about their carbon uptake potential in order to select the most suitable, diverse and successful offspring to maximize the positive effects of reforestation. Researchers from the Canadian Forest Service are trying to demonstrate that combining dendroecology and genomics could become an effective tool to select trees more quickly according to their carbon sequestration capacity