Review of carbon storage function of harvested wood products and the potential of wood substitution in greenhouse gas mitigation

A Geng, H Yang, J Chen, Y Hong - Forest Policy and Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Global forests have the potential to significantly increase or reduce atmospheric greenhouse
gas (GHG) concentration. Harvested wood products (HWP) are an important part of the …

Canadian boreal forests and climate change mitigation

TC Lemprière, WA Kurz, EH Hogg… - Environmental …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
Quantitative assessment of Canada's boreal forest mitigation potential is not yet possible,
though the range of mitigation activities is known, requirements for sound analyses of …

Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

X Tong, M Brandt, Y Yue, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Land use policies have turned southern China into one of the most intensively managed
forest regions in the world, with actions maximizing forest cover on soils with marginal …

Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways

EJ Forster, JR Healey, C Dymond, D Styles - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Afforestation is an important greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategy but the efficacy of
commercial forestry is disputed. Here, we calculate the potential GHG mitigation of a UK …

Quantifying the biophysical climate change mitigation potential of Canada's forest sector

CE Smyth, G Stinson, E Neilson, TC Lemprière… - …, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
The potential of forests and the forest sector to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is
widely recognized, but challenging to quantify at a national scale. Forests and their carbon …

Altered growth conditions more than reforestation counteracted forest biomass carbon emissions 1990–2020

J Le Noë, KH Erb, S Matej, A Magerl, M Bhan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding the carbon (C) balance in global forest is key for climate-change mitigation.
However, land use and environmental drivers affecting global forest C fluxes remain poorly …

Have product substitution carbon benefits been overestimated? A sensitivity analysis of key assumptions

ME Harmon - Environmental Research Letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Substitution of wood for more fossil carbon intensive building materials has been projected
to result in major climate mitigation benefits often exceeding those of the forests themselves …

Meeting GHG reduction targets requires accounting for all forest sector emissions

TW Hudiburg, BE Law, WR Moomaw… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) must be reduced to avoid an unsustainable climate.
Because carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and sequestered in forests and …

Wood product carbon substitution benefits: a critical review of assumptions

C Howard, CC Dymond, VC Griess… - Carbon Balance and …, 2021 - Springer
Background There are high estimates of the potential climate change mitigation opportunity
of using wood products. A significant part of those estimates depends on long-lived wood …

Climate change mitigation in British Columbia's forest sector: GHG reductions, costs, and environmental impacts

CE Smyth, Z Xu, TC Lemprière, WA Kurz - Carbon balance and …, 2020 - Springer
Background The potential contributions from forest-based greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation
actions need to be quantified to develop pathways towards net negative emissions. Here we …