Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab1e95
Keywords
forest sector; carbon storage; forest management; climate mitigation; forest ecosystems
Funding
- Kaye and Ward Richardson endowment
- National Science Foundation [DEB-0823380, DEB-1440409]
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Substitution of wood for more fossil carbon intensive building materials has been projected to result in major climate mitigation benefits often exceeding those of the forests themselves. A reexamination of the fundamental assumptions underlying these projections indicates long-term mitigation benefits related to product substitution may have been overestimated 2- to 100-fold. This suggests that while product substitution has limited climate mitigation benefits, to be effective the value and duration of the fossil carbon displacement, the longevity of buildings, and the nature of the forest supplying building materials must be considered.
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