Estimating New Zealand's harvested wood products carbon stocks and stock changes.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Reducing net greenhouse gas emissions through conserving existing forest carbon stocks and encouraging additional uptake of carbon in existing and new forests have become important climate change mitigation tools. The contribution of harvested wood products (HWPs) to increasing carbon uptake has been recognised and approaches to quantifying this pool developed. In New Zealand, harvesting has more than doubled since 1990 while log exports have increased by a factor of 11 due to past afforestation and comparatively little expansion in domestic processing. This paper documents New Zealand's application of the IPCC approaches for reporting contributions of the HWP pool to net emissions, in order to meet international greenhouse gas inventory reporting requirements. We examine the im

SUBMITTER: Wakelin SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7243304 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature