Towards a Carbon Accounting Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Biogenic Wood Carbon to Net Zero Carbon Targets
Carbon stored in harvested wood products (HWPs) can play an important role in climate change mitigation and needs to be accounted for accurately and consistently. This study reviewed the features of previous HWP carbon accounting frameworks and discussed potential improvements for a more complete as...
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| author | Oludunsin Arodudu Obste Therasme Timothy Volk Robert Malmsheimer Paul Crovella René Germain Danielle Kloster Deepak Kumar |
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| description | Carbon stored in harvested wood products (HWPs) can play an important role in climate change mitigation and needs to be accounted for accurately and consistently. This study reviewed the features of previous HWP carbon accounting frameworks and discussed potential improvements for a more complete assessment of all HWP contributions to net zero carbon targets at subnational levels. The basic features include the components, the methods, the approaches, and the modeling principles. A key recommendation is to expand previous HWP C accounting framework components to include other climate change mitigation benefits such as local or regional substitution effects (i.e., material replacement, fossil fuel displacement effects, energy efficiency gains, recycling effects, and cascading use impacts) of all produced and consumed HWPs. Another area for improvement is the need for subnational unit-specific activity data and conversion factors. Adopting variants of the domestic origin-stock change approach will also help account for relevant production and consumption activities within the subnational unit. These recommendations will enhance the accuracy and/or precision of HWP accounting frameworks at the subnational level and help capture all potential benefits of HWPs as a carbon sink for climate change mitigation and a valuable contributor to subnational net zero carbon targets. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dd18c2232dc14cfe96e97f473af34ded2023-11-19T16:31:42ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072023-09-011410195910.3390/f14101959Towards a Carbon Accounting Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Biogenic Wood Carbon to Net Zero Carbon TargetsOludunsin Arodudu0Obste Therasme1Timothy Volk2Robert Malmsheimer3Paul Crovella4René Germain5Danielle Kloster6Deepak Kumar7Department of Sustainable Resources Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USADepartment of Sustainable Resources Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USADepartment of Sustainable Resources Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USADepartment of Sustainable Resources Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USADepartment of Sustainable Resources Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USADepartment of Sustainable Resources Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USADepartment of Sustainable Resources Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USADepartment of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USACarbon stored in harvested wood products (HWPs) can play an important role in climate change mitigation and needs to be accounted for accurately and consistently. This study reviewed the features of previous HWP carbon accounting frameworks and discussed potential improvements for a more complete assessment of all HWP contributions to net zero carbon targets at subnational levels. The basic features include the components, the methods, the approaches, and the modeling principles. A key recommendation is to expand previous HWP C accounting framework components to include other climate change mitigation benefits such as local or regional substitution effects (i.e., material replacement, fossil fuel displacement effects, energy efficiency gains, recycling effects, and cascading use impacts) of all produced and consumed HWPs. Another area for improvement is the need for subnational unit-specific activity data and conversion factors. Adopting variants of the domestic origin-stock change approach will also help account for relevant production and consumption activities within the subnational unit. These recommendations will enhance the accuracy and/or precision of HWP accounting frameworks at the subnational level and help capture all potential benefits of HWPs as a carbon sink for climate change mitigation and a valuable contributor to subnational net zero carbon targets.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/10/1959carbon accounting frameworkharvested wood productnet zero carbon targetssubnational assessmentssubstitution effects |
| spellingShingle | Oludunsin Arodudu Obste Therasme Timothy Volk Robert Malmsheimer Paul Crovella René Germain Danielle Kloster Deepak Kumar Towards a Carbon Accounting Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Biogenic Wood Carbon to Net Zero Carbon Targets Forests carbon accounting framework harvested wood product net zero carbon targets subnational assessments substitution effects |
| title | Towards a Carbon Accounting Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Biogenic Wood Carbon to Net Zero Carbon Targets |
| title_full | Towards a Carbon Accounting Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Biogenic Wood Carbon to Net Zero Carbon Targets |
| title_fullStr | Towards a Carbon Accounting Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Biogenic Wood Carbon to Net Zero Carbon Targets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a Carbon Accounting Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Biogenic Wood Carbon to Net Zero Carbon Targets |
| title_short | Towards a Carbon Accounting Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Biogenic Wood Carbon to Net Zero Carbon Targets |
| title_sort | towards a carbon accounting framework for assessing the benefits of biogenic wood carbon to net zero carbon targets |
| topic | carbon accounting framework harvested wood product net zero carbon targets subnational assessments substitution effects |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/10/1959 |
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