Mitigate Climate Change and Use Processed or Value-Added Harvested Wood Products

Abstract

In the era of scientifi c advancement, technological upliftment, and modernization, poor people of the country still depend upon wood for their primary energy source. Up to the nineteenth century, wood was irreplaceable as the most important fuel and raw material for construction, agriculture, crafts, and shipbuilding. Assessments of the scope for greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation through wood use at the different levels can be done with a combination of approaches from different disciplines. Treatment of carbon stored in harvested products varies among international, national, and voluntary project-based mitigation programs, and to recognize carbon storage in wood products within international protocols has been ongoing for the past several years. The role of carbon sinks in harvested wood products (HWPs) is generally accepted, and one of the themes discussed in the negotiations of a post-2012 agreement is the possible inclusion of HWPs in accounting of CO 2 emission after 2012. In the present paper, we are discussing about the various national and international value-added wood products for storing or preserving carbon for a long time and ultimately useful option for mitigating climate change.

Carbon stock in wood products: implications for carbon accounting at national and local scale in Italy

“…To mitigate climate change, global forest ecosystems represent a key solution (Chakravarty et al, 2015).…”

“…In the first CP (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012), forest harvesting was treated as an instantaneous emission of carbon dioxide, and the carbon stock effect of HWPs ignored (Chakravarty et al, 2015). In practice, wood-based materials may emit C over a long time frame (Pilli et al, 2015).…”

“…For this reason, for the second CP (2013-2020), the accounting rules have been changed to include explicitly C stock changes in the HWPs pool (UNFCC, 2011a). However, the next commitment period from 2013 will be important for wood products, the carbon stock changes resulting from HWPs will be taken into account in the national inventories of GHGs (Tonosaki, 2009, Chakravarty et al, 2015.…”

“…Some strategies and policy actions should regard: (i) the maximization of the achievable wood increment; and (ii) a further development of the wood products market, through promoting technical innovation and coherent policies encouraging the use of wood for buildings, or long-lived wood products manufactured using the timber harvested. These products may be recycled at the end of their lifetime and, finally, (end-) used to generate energy (Chakravarty et al, 2015). These objectives can only be achieved by using all available "policy tools" (Berti et al, 2009).…”

“…Scientific tools that provide the basic information must be adopted (Chakravarty et al, 2015). Accordingly, it is necessary to have scientific recognised methods to be used to calculate the amount of CO 2 fixed (AA.…”