Future change in carbon in harvested wood products from Irish forests established prior to 1990

Donlan, Jennifer; Black, Kevin; Hendrick, E.; O’Driscoll, E; Byrne, Keren

doi:10.4155/cmt.13.37

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“…In the case of deadwood, carbon fluxes can be estimated using inflows of carbon from harvest residues, the existing deadwood pool and published decomposition factors (see Olajuyigbe et al 2011;Yatskov et al 2003). Carbon dynamics of harvested wood products could be derived from timber assortments based on relationships between timber assortments and semi-finished wood products (Donlan et al 2013) and published half-lives using the harvested wood products decay model (IPCC 2006). However, it must be recognized that the model system boundary would not be limited to regional carbon stock changes given the large influence of timber trade.…”

Section: Carbon Sequestrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forest decision support systems for the analysis of ecosystem services provisioning at the landscape scale under global climate and market change scenarios

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Sustainable forest management is driving the development of forest decision support systems (DSSs) to include models and methods concerned with climate change, biodiversity and various ecosystem services (ESs). The future development of forest landscapes is very much dependent on how forest owners act and what goes on in the wider world, thus models are needed that incorporate these aspects. The objective of this study is to assess how nine European state-of-the-art forest DSSs cope with these issues. The assessment focuses on the ability of these DSSs to generate landscape level scenarios to explore the output of current and alternative forest management models (FMMs) in terms of a range of ESs and the robustness of these FMMs in the face of increased risks and uncertainty. Results show that all DSSs assessed in this study can be used to quantify the impacts of both stand and landscape-level FMMs on the provision of a range of ESs over a typical planning horizon. DSSs can be used to assess how timber price trends may impact that provision over time. The inclusion of forest owner behavior as reflected by the adoption of specific FMMs seems to be also in the reach of all DSSs. Nevertheless, some DSSs need more data and development of models to estimate the impacts of climate change on biomass production and other ESs. Spatial analysis functionality need to be further developed for a more accurate assessment of the landscape level output of ESs from both current and alternative FMMs.

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Section: Carbon Sequestrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forest decision support systems for the analysis of ecosystem services provisioning at the landscape scale under global climate and market change scenarios

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“…Harvested wood products (HWPs) play an important role in climate mitigation [1,2] whose carbon emission by source or carbon removal by sink should be included in the national greenhouse gas inventories after the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol [3].…”

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

Yang

Zhang

2016

Sustainability

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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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“…Harvested Wood Products (HWP) are considered potential carbon sinks (IPCC, 2006). They play an important role in climate mitigation (Dias et al, 2012;Donlan et al, 2013;Kayo et al, 2015;Yang & Zang, 2016), whose C emissions from sources or removals by sinks should be included in national GHG inventories after second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (IPCC, 2014b). Although C storage in HWP represents a sink, it can also become a source of GHG emissions as they are decomposed.…”

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confidence: 99%

Methane emissions and carbon storage from household paper disposal in Brazil during 1901-2016

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Desenvolv. Meio Ambiente

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In this paper, we estimated the methane emissions by the disposal of sanitary and domestic-use paper consumed throughout Brazil from 1901 to 2016. The apparent consumption of this type of paper from 1961 to 2016, calculated from the data of the FAOSTAT system, was used to estimate the amount of waste disposed of annually in three site categories: sanitary landfill, controlled dump, and open-air, uncontrolled dump. The 2006 IPCC Guide methodology was used to calculate CH 4 emissions and long-term carbon storage. Nine scenarios based upon the law that establishes the National Solid Waste Policy (NSWP) were examined, considering 100% waste disposal and treatment in landfills or incineration from 2014. The total emission was estimated at 1.967 MtCH 4 , corresponding to 55.080 MtCO 2eq by GWP-AR5, and the stored carbon at 3.724 Mt, corresponding to 13.655 MtCO 2eq . CH4emission increased beyond the population growth rate due to an increase in the per capita paper consumption in the country, from 0.02 kgCH 4 .year -1 in 1961 to 0.30 kg CH 4 .year -1 in 2016. The NSWP has not yet been accomplished, and the scenarios outlined indicate that, from the point of view of CH 4 emissions, it would be more advantageous to carry out incineration instead of applying other waste treatment technologies.

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Future change in carbon in harvested wood products from Irish forests established prior to 1990

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Forest decision support systems for the analysis of ecosystem services provisioning at the landscape scale under global climate and market change scenarios

Forest decision support systems for the analysis of ecosystem services provisioning at the landscape scale under global climate and market change scenarios

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

Methane emissions and carbon storage from household paper disposal in Brazil during 1901-2016

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