2019
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab28bb
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Meeting GHG reduction targets requires accounting for all forest sector emissions

Abstract: 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 products, mitigation strategies to sustain and increase forest carbon sequestration are being developed. These strategies require full accounting of forest sector GHG budgets. Here, we describe a rigorous approach using over one million observations from forest inventory data and a regionally calibrated life-cycle assessment for calcula… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

3
52
0

Year Published

2020
2020
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
8
1

Relationship

1
8

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 64 publications
(55 citation statements)
references
References 32 publications
3
52
0
Order By: Relevance
“…The paper emphasizes the importance of assessing scenarios in different ecoregions where growth rates and historic management regimes differ and impact the baseline net ecosystem carbon balance. This is similar to findings in the Pacific North West US of Hudiburg et al (2019), where ∼40% of the high productivity, high carbon density forests are private lands under short rotation forestry.…”
Section: Carbon Accountingsupporting
confidence: 88%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…The paper emphasizes the importance of assessing scenarios in different ecoregions where growth rates and historic management regimes differ and impact the baseline net ecosystem carbon balance. This is similar to findings in the Pacific North West US of Hudiburg et al (2019), where ∼40% of the high productivity, high carbon density forests are private lands under short rotation forestry.…”
Section: Carbon Accountingsupporting
confidence: 88%
“…These findings highlight the problematic nature of the accounting system in which bioenergy emissions are counted in the land sector and only noted, but not counted in the energy sector. This point has also been made by the IPCC expert meeting on quantifying carbon in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) sector and by Hudiburg et al (2019). Current accounting provisions have the perverse effect of allowing the European Union, to import wood pellets from the US, and claim significant reductions in emissions by replacing emissions from coal in Europe with land use emissions that should be claimed by the United States (Searchinger et al 2009).…”
Section: Forest Bioenergymentioning
confidence: 93%
“…The amount of harvested carbon that remains stored in wood products is insufficient to offset the loss of carbon stored in the forest. If harvested, life cycle assessment shows that 65% of the wood harvested in Oregon over the past 115 years has been emitted to the atmosphere, 16% is in landfills and only 19% remains in wood products (Hudiburg et al, 2019). Thus, harvesting the large trees will increase, not decrease emissions and end centuries of long-term carbon storage in the forests.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, in this study, we refrained from modeling forest management based 'what-if scenarios' and estimating the corresponding net environmental impacts of displacing non-wood products with wood-based products and vice versa. Scenario-based studies that fail to factor in the environmental effects of displacing non-wood products with bio-products (like wood) within their what-if scenarios, tend to propagate reduced harvest rates in certain forest types [68]. However, we know that the substitution effect plays an essential role in the net environmental assessment of the wood products industry [69].…”
Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%