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To estimate greenhouse gas emissions and removals from harvested wood products across EU-28 countries from 1990 to 2030 under different harvest projection scenarios.

February 24, 2015Carbon Balance and ManagementOpen Access

EU mitigation potential of harvested wood products

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RPRoberto PilliUniversity of Padua GFGiulia FioreseJoint Research Centre GGGiacomo GrassiJoint Research Centre

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Modeling study demonstrates limited additional carbon sink capacity from harvested wood products across EU countries, highlighting the trade-off with living forest biomass retention.

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To estimate greenhouse gas emissions and removals from harvested wood products across EU-28 countries from 1990 to 2030 under different harvest projection scenarios.
Applied the IPCC Tier 2 method from the 2013 Kyoto Protocol Supplement to calculate carbon stocks in harvested wood products across EU-28 nations.
Modeled three future harvest trajectories through 2030: constant historical average, +20% harvest increase, and -20% harvest decrease.
Maintaining harvest rates at constant historical averages causes the harvested wood product carbon sink to saturate and approach zero over the long term.
Sustaining the harvested wood sink requires increasing harvest volumes, which directly reduces the carbon sink maintained in living forest biomass in the short term.
Carbon sink effectiveness depends heavily on commodity mix and the balance between domestic production, imports, and exports.

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Pilli et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0066fe2ff633f36577ec90 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-015-0016-7

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Modeling study demonstrates limited additional carbon sink capacity from harvested wood products across EU countries, highlighting the trade-off with living forest biomass retention.

EU mitigation potential of harvested wood products

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EU mitigation potential of harvested wood products

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