Take a deep dive into trusted science about forestry, embodied carbon, and climate-smart wood in our Knowledge Hub

The Climate Smart Wood Group has compiled educational resources into the Knowledge Hub. Here you will find a distillation of foundational resources and links to larger associated libraries of information.

Level-Setting Presentations

Curated list of overview, forest ecology, certification, procurement and case studies, and measuring progress videos and presentations that offer a broad knowledge base about the many considerations surrounding climate-smart forestry and wood products.

For more information, visit the level-setting library on climatesmartforestry.org

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Reading List

Annotated bibliography of key resources compiled by Washington Environmental Council (WEC), covering a range of topics including forest management, conservation & restoration, carbon markets, LCA & embodied carbon, Mass timber, policy, and procurement.

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Video Presentations

Seeing the forest for the mass timber
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Ecological Forest Management
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How LCA handles wood
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Carbon smart: Is all wood good?
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Disclosure and Transparency Approaches to Wood Sourcing
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There’s mass timber in them there houses! Salvaged lumber moves up the value chain
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Climate-friendly forestry: 4 tests for durable wood products
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Trees, forestry & carbon 101
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Carbon budgets & climate goals
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Solving the sustainability puzzle: a guide to the complexity of wood supply chains
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Case study: The Meyer Memorial Trust HQ
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Climate & forests: What we must do—offsets & beyond
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Certification & chain of custody
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Why wildfires have gotten worse—and what we can do about it
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Do private regulations ratchet up?
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Primary forests & proforestation: nature’s best climate solutions
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Proforestation for nature & climate
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Reforestation as a climate action opportunity
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The Primary Imperative: Why Protecting Forests Is Essential to Meeting Global Climate Goals
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Creating abundance through collaboration
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The importance of forest soils for carbon sequestration and storage
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How LCA handles wood
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When is harvesting wood a climate benefit?
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Going beyond neutrality in embodied carbon accounting for forest products
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Product substitution: key assumptions
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Carbon neutrality & its connection to the substitution effects of forest products
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Biogenic carbon footprint calculator for harvested wood products
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For more information contact the Climate Smart Wood Group at info@climatesmartwood.net.