2017
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-016-9735-7
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Climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector: biophysical impacts and economic implications in British Columbia, Canada

Abstract: Managing forests to increase carbon sequestration or reduce carbon emissions and using wood products and bioenergy to store carbon and substitute for other emission-intensive products and fossil fuel energy have been considered effective ways to tackle climate change in many countries and regions. The objective of this study is to examine the climate change mitigation potential of the forest sector by developing and assessing potential mitigation strategies and portfolios with various goals in British Columbia… Show more

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“…Although beyond the scope of the current analyses, economic and socio-economic analyses should also be addressed to understand potential barriers to implementation [6, 29]. Mitigation scenarios levels were considered to be feasible, but there are uncertainties about technical feasibility, regulatory barriers, and market barriers that were not considered.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although beyond the scope of the current analyses, economic and socio-economic analyses should also be addressed to understand potential barriers to implementation [6, 29]. Mitigation scenarios levels were considered to be feasible, but there are uncertainties about technical feasibility, regulatory barriers, and market barriers that were not considered.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to recent studies, forest carbon mitigation in Canada [37,56,68], as well as other parts of the world (e.g., Sweden [74]; USA [75]), cannot be maximized by implementing a single strategy, but rather with combinations of options adapted to geographical particularities. Only a systems perspective taking into account all the carbon pools and fluxes will allow identification of the best mitigation scenario(s) and an understanding of the trade-offs between increasing carbon storage in forest ecosystems or increasing it in wood products [2,18,20].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The presentation mainly revisited the information found in a consultation document (supplementary material titled "Primer second series of workshops") that had been provided to the participants in preparation for the event and describes in detail the whole process, the objectives, and the strategies [38]. Five of the evaluated strategies originate from a parallel study [37], independent of the engagement process, that was carried out by a team of multidisciplinary experts from the overarching project. At least one member of this team attended each of the workshops as technical experts.…”
Section: Higher Utilizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, some of these processes also vary in their intrinsic degree of predictability (Luo et al 2015), meaning that some factors causing large contributions to uncertainty may prove difficult to reduce (e.g., fine root turnover and its spatial and temporal variations). Despite all of these sources of uncertainty, models are useful for quantifying and ranking policy alternatives Xu et al 2017), and their utility for such applications is increased when uncertainties are explicitly stated and quantified (Gregr and Chan 2015). They also continue to be required to meet obligations for GHG reporting under international climate conventions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%