… increased: even if deforestation per se might not be the issue here, this raises the question
about “net carbon sink or displaced carbon storage” that we address in the following section. …

… The maximum rate of … timber building structures are likely to have smaller short-term climate
impacts than concrete and steel equivalents. Over the longer-term, carbon sequestration can …

… the existing building stock in the Global North presents an … To assess the feasibility of
using straw in the Global North, a … in order to turn the global building stock into a carbon sink. …

… to carbon sequestration, is here considered due to its associated co-benefits in mitigating
urban heat islands and lowering building … of building construction outside of city boundaries, …

… preserved when the wood is used as a building material, making it a long-term carbon sink.
… This encroachment in natural forests is feasible in MAgPIE but in reality, might entail losses …

… through the feasibility of concrete and timber building in this … Therefore, the embodied carbon
and carbon sequestration … with the existing concrete building as the maximum baseline, ie, …

… , (33) but the question of resource availability limits the extent … in the world without the risk
of reducing carbon sinks from … building envelopes, we performed an architectural feasibility …

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check on feasibility limits.” 2020 Jul 31 [cited 2022 Mar 16];1. Available from: https://data.…

… compared to 1990 in order to limit global warming to 1.5 C [9]. … feasibility of constructing
modern wooden buildings with zero … as carbon sinks, thus storing carbon within the building fabric…