The Role of Wood Material for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

“…In some cases, it is difficult to introduce an innovative technology even if it is less expensive than the existing technology. An example of this is the slow diffusion of multi-storey wooden building construction (Gustavsson et al, 2006a).…”

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Using biomass for climate change mitigation and oil use reduction

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In this paper, we examine how an increased use of biomass could efficiently meet Swedish energy policy goals of reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and oil use. In particular, we examine the trade-offs inherent when biomass use is intended to pursue multiple objectives. We set up four scenarios in which up to 400 PJ/year of additional biomass is prioritised to reduce CO 2 emissions, reduce oil use, simultaneously reduce both CO 2 emission and oil use, or to produce ethanol to replace gasoline. Technologies analysed for using the biomass include the production of electricity, heat, and transport fuels, and also as construction materials and other products. We find that optimising biomass use for a single objective (either CO 2 emission reduction or oil use reduction) results in high fulfilment of that single objective (17.4 Tg C/year and 350 PJ oil/year, respectively), at a monetary cost of 130-330 million h/year, but with low fulfilment of the other objective. A careful selection of biomass uses for combined benefits results in reductions of 12.6 Tg C/year and 230 PJ oil/year (72% and 67%, respectively, of the reductions achieved in the scenarios with single objectives), with a monetary benefit of 45 million h/ year. Prioritising for ethanol production gives the lowest CO 2 emissions reduction, intermediate oil use reduction, and the highest monetary cost. r

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“…Wood products as wooden construction materials (single products or building components) are carbon stores, rather than carbon sinks, unlike their competitors are part of the carbon cycle giving climatic and other environmental benefi ts (Buchanan and Honey 1994 ;Karjalainen et al 1994 ;Buchanan and Levine 1999 ;Pingoud and Perala 2000 ;Werner et al 2005 ;Solberg 2003 , 2004 ;Perez-Garcia et al 2005a ;Gustavsson et al 2006a ;Lippke and Edmonds 2006 ;Taverna et al 2007 ;Gret-Remaney et al 2008 ;Upton et al 2007 ;Valsta et al 2008 ;Stockmann et al 2012 ). Trees as they grow absorb CO 2 and store it as carbon and thus are an important carbon sink.…”

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Mitigate Climate Change and Use Processed or Value-Added Harvested Wood Products

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Value Addition of Horticultural Crops: Recent Trends and Future Directions

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In the era of scientifi c advancement, technological upliftment, and modernization, poor people of the country still depend upon wood for their primary energy source. Up to the nineteenth century, wood was irreplaceable as the most important fuel and raw material for construction, agriculture, crafts, and shipbuilding. Assessments of the scope for greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation through wood use at the different levels can be done with a combination of approaches from different disciplines. Treatment of carbon stored in harvested products varies among international, national, and voluntary project-based mitigation programs, and to recognize carbon storage in wood products within international protocols has been ongoing for the past several years. The role of carbon sinks in harvested wood products (HWPs) is generally accepted, and one of the themes discussed in the negotiations of a post-2012 agreement is the possible inclusion of HWPs in accounting of CO 2 emission after 2012. In the present paper, we are discussing about the various national and international value-added wood products for storing or preserving carbon for a long time and ultimately useful option for mitigating climate change.

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The Role of Wood Material for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Abstract: wood, bioenergy, substitution, greenhouse gas emission, policy,

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Life cycle impacts of forest management and wood utilization on carbon mitigation: knowns and unknowns

Life cycle impacts of forest management and wood utilization on carbon mitigation: knowns and unknowns

Using biomass for climate change mitigation and oil use reduction

Mitigate Climate Change and Use Processed or Value-Added Harvested Wood Products

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