Featured presentation from Wood Carbon Seminars: Tackles the question “is wood carbon neutral” by exploring four possible approaches to conducting LCAs for wood products where system boundaries and key assumptions vary:
- Traditional LCA approach which assumes neutrality for biogenic carbon and doesn’t account for deforestation or forest degradation that results in net losses of forest carbon
- Approach where carbon balance is accounted by the growth of new trees after trees are harvested which accounts for deforestation but involves assumptions or increased need for data collection
- Supply area approach that can account for new losses of forest carbon in the forest landscape and is best aligned with how wood is procured
- Based off on approach 2 but includes “foregone sequestration” — a counterfactual where trees are allowed to grow instead of being logged but involves assumptions or increased need for data collection
RUNNING TIME 18:00 MINUTES
Presenter: Reid Miner (National Council for Air and Stream Improvement)
