Carbon sequestration and carbon flow in harvested wood products for China

Ji, Chunyi; Yang, Hongqiang; Ying, Nie; Yu, Hong

doi:10.1505/146554813806948530

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“…The results of this study are lower than those of the existing research because the latest conversion factors to dry weight, carbon content and half-lives and HWP categories in 2013 Supplementary, are applied in this study. The curves of the carbon stock and the annual carbon increment share the same shape and trend with those in existing studies [12,39]. Figures 2 and 3 indicate that the objectiveness of PAs in reflecting the complete national carbon pool of China's HWPs is weakened because the country's HWPs trade took off since the beginning of the 21st century with the development of the HWP industry.…”

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confidence: 55%

“…The carbon stock of China's HWPs calculated by the current studies are 676 Tg C in 2011 [12] and 888 Tg C [39] in 2012 using SCA and 519.9 Tg C in 2011 using PA2006 [12]. The annual carbon stock is 50.78 Tg C in 2012 using SCA [39].…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Some Asia-pacific countries/regions with large-scale HWP trade, such as China [11,12,39], Japan [2], and Taiwan [36], joined the application and debate of approaches. Japan designed a combined method of SCA and PA to investigate the interregional carbon flows and balance; such method is an innovation of the application of approaches [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The balance (B 2 ) between Inflow(i) SCA and Inflow(i) PA´2013 is as follows: Given that paper and wooden products are accounted separately and carbon sequestration is mainly contributed by wooden products [12], the equation B 2 > 0 is solved separately for paper and paperboard and for sawnwood and wood-based panels. The solution is shown in Equations (12) and (13).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Rethinking of the Production Approach in IPCC: Its Objectiveness in China

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Zhang

2016

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Abstract:The trade of harvested wood products (HWPs) and their feedstock increasingly affects the dynamics of the complete national HWP carbon pool ignored by the Production Approach (PA), the current universal method, proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Existing research also overlooks the inherent factors that lead to the non-objectiveness of PA that affects the potential carbon trade and the sustainable use of forestry resources. This study aimed to investigate such inherent factors through a deductive derivation of PA and the Stock-Change Approach (SCA), based on which an empirical study on China was conducted to rethink the objectiveness of PA in the complete national HWP carbon pool. The deductive derivation indicated that the inherent factors rely on the balance between coefficients that describe the relationship between HWP trade and production and the relationship between the corresponding feedstock trade and production. The empirical study further illustrated that the dynamics of balance between coefficients negatively influence the objectiveness of PA. The absolute objectiveness of this approach was constantly weakened in the past 55 years and may potentially occur yet again in the future despite an improvement in its annual relative objectiveness.

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2016

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“…The national carbon accounting using any one of these approaches would be acceptable. Under the IPCC Guidelines, studies on estimating the HWP carbon pool have been conducted worldwide [3,4] in numerous districts and individual countries, including Annex 1 Parties [5], Finland [6], USA [7,8], Russia [9], China [10], Ireland [11], and Portugal [12]. The research results verify that HWP plays an important role in climate mitigation.…”

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Carbon Balance and Contribution of Harvested Wood Products in China Based on the Production Approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Cao

Chen

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The carbon sequestration of harvested wood products (HWP) plays an important role in climate mitigation. Accounting the carbon contribution of national HWP carbon pools has been listed as one of the key topics for negotiation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. On the basis of the revised Production Approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2013) (IPCC), this study assessed the accounting of carbon stock and emissions from the HWP pool in China and then analyzed its balance and contribution to carbon mitigation from 1960 to 2014. Research results showed that the accumulated carbon stock in China’s HWP carbon pool increased from 130 Teragrams Carbon (TgC) in 1960 to 705.6 TgC in 2014. The annual increment in the carbon stock rose from 3.2 TgC in 1960 to 45.2 TgC in 2014. The category of solid wood products accounted for approximately 95% of the annual amount. The reduction in carbon emissions was approximately twelve times that of the emissions from the HWP producing and processing stage during the last decade. Furthermore, the amount of carbon stock and emission reduction increased from 23 TgC in 1960 to 76.1 TgC in 2014. The annual contribution of HWP could compensate for approximately 2.9% of the national carbon dioxide emissions in China.

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Carbon sequestration and carbon flow in harvested wood products for China

Cited by 7 publications

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A Rethinking of the Production Approach in IPCC: Its Objectiveness in China

A Rethinking of the Production Approach in IPCC: Its Objectiveness in China

Carbon Balance and Contribution of Harvested Wood Products in China Based on the Production Approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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