A Rethinking of the Production Approach in IPCC: Its Objectiveness in China

Yang, Hongqiang; Zhang, Xiaobiao

doi:10.3390/su8030216

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“…Recent research results showed that the carbon stock was 470 TgC with an annual increment of 40 TgC in 2014 [21]. In the current research, the result of national carbon stock in the HWP pool is 570 TgC in 2011 and 706 TgC in 2014, which is higher than those of the existing researches.…”

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Carbon Balance and Contribution of Harvested Wood Products in China Based on the Production Approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Chen

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The carbon sequestration of harvested wood products (HWP) plays an important role in climate mitigation. Accounting the carbon contribution of national HWP carbon pools has been listed as one of the key topics for negotiation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. On the basis of the revised Production Approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2013) (IPCC), this study assessed the accounting of carbon stock and emissions from the HWP pool in China and then analyzed its balance and contribution to carbon mitigation from 1960 to 2014. Research results showed that the accumulated carbon stock in China’s HWP carbon pool increased from 130 Teragrams Carbon (TgC) in 1960 to 705.6 TgC in 2014. The annual increment in the carbon stock rose from 3.2 TgC in 1960 to 45.2 TgC in 2014. The category of solid wood products accounted for approximately 95% of the annual amount. The reduction in carbon emissions was approximately twelve times that of the emissions from the HWP producing and processing stage during the last decade. Furthermore, the amount of carbon stock and emission reduction increased from 23 TgC in 1960 to 76.1 TgC in 2014. The annual contribution of HWP could compensate for approximately 2.9% of the national carbon dioxide emissions in China.

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Carbon Balance and Contribution of Harvested Wood Products in China Based on the Production Approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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“…Both studies employed the data from FAOSTAT but reached different results. The cumulative carbon stock by 2014 was estimated as 705.6 Teragrams Carbon (TgC) by Ji et al [14], which was significantly higher than the estimation by Yang et al’s [13] of only 473.3 TgC in 2015. Both studies ignored the stock change in retired wood products.…”

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“…The carbon pool in HWP of China represents a continuous increasing carbon sink [12,13,14,15]. Yang et al [13] and Ji et al [14] estimated the carbon stock in China’s HWP by using the latest PA approach, as recommend by the IPCC. Both studies employed the data from FAOSTAT but reached different results.…”

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Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016

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2019

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The use of harvested wood products (HWPs) influences the carbon flux. China is both the major producer and trader of HWP, so estimating the carbon stock change of China’s HWP is important to help curb climate change. Accurate reporting and accounting of carbon flows in the HWP pool is needed to meet greenhouse gas monitoring and climate change mitigation objectives under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement. This study applied production approach (PA) to estimate the carbon stock change of China’s HWP from 1900 to 2016. During the estimating period, the carbon stock of HWP in use and deposed at solid waste disposal sites (SWDS) were 649.2 Teragrams Carbon (TgC) (346.8 TgC in wood-based panels, 216.7 TgC in sawnwood and 85.7 TgC in paper & paperboard) and 72.6 TgC, respectively. The carbon amount of annual domestic harvest HWP varied between 87.6 and 118.7 TgC. However, the imported carbon inflow increased significantly after the 1990s and reached 47.6 TgC in 2016, accounting for 46% of the domestic harvest of that year. China has great mitigation potential from HWP and use of this resource should be considered in future strategies to address climate change.

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“…Following the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties, carbon accounting of HWP is confined to products in use, where the wood was derived from domestic harvest [48]. The principle is the same as the production approache (PA), a universal approach during the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol [49]. The current study calculated the gate-to-gate CO 2 flux in which the system boundary disregarded trade and excluded carbon in imported wood-based panels [11].…”

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Contributions of China’s Wood-Based Panels to CO2 Emission and Removal Implied by the Energy Consumption Standards

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Life cycle analysis on wood-based panels in terms of CO 2 flux can be used to quantitatively assess the climate change contributions of these materials. In this study, the annual CO 2 flux between 1990 and 2015 was calculated through gate-to-gate life cycle analysis of wood-based panels. As implied by the energy consumption standards, China's wood-based panels used to be carbon sources during the period 1990-2007, with the average contribution to CO 2 emissions of 9.20 Mt/year. The implementation of new standards and the development of Cleaner production technologies in China, decreased the energy consumption per panel. China's wood-based panels acted as a carbon sink between 2008 and 2015, with the average contribution to CO 2 removal of 31.71 Mt/year. Plywood produced the largest contributions to the emission and removal of CO 2 , and was followed by fiberboard and particleboard. China's wood-based panels, with good prospects and strong demands projected in the future, can potentially contribute to climate change mitigation.

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A Rethinking of the Production Approach in IPCC: Its Objectiveness in China

Cited by 18 publications

References 37 publications

Carbon Balance and Contribution of Harvested Wood Products in China Based on the Production Approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Carbon Balance and Contribution of Harvested Wood Products in China Based on the Production Approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016

Contributions of China’s Wood-Based Panels to CO2 Emission and Removal Implied by the Energy Consumption Standards

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