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Improving Carbon Stock Estimates for In-Use Harvested Wood Products by Linking Production and Consumption-A Global Case Study
- Source :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- We developed a method to better estimate the carbon stocks of in-use harvested wood products (HWP) by using the Eora multiregional input-output tables to link global HWP production and end uses, compared to existing global-scale studies that focused on semifinished HWP. Using the new method, we allocated global HWP to country-specific end uses, including solid HWP used in (1) construction, (2) furniture production, and (3) other end uses, and as (4) household and sanitary paper and (5) other paper and paper products, while the HWP carbon stocks in these end uses were estimated using the Stock Change Approach. We reported that HWP produced globally contained an annual average of 277.7 teragram carbon in 1992-2015, of which 63.0, 12.6, 76.7, 9.1, and 116.3 teragram carbon were consumed by the above five end uses, respectively. By 2015, the carbon stocks of global in-use HWP produced since 1992 accumulated to 2938 teragrams of carbon, of which the above five HWP end uses accounted for 1489, 268, 890, 0, and 291 teragrams of carbon, respectively. Country-specific HWP production and consumption varied significantly, with the eight leading consuming countries (United States, China, Japan, Canada, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, and France) accounting for 69% of the global in-use HWP carbon stocks. published
- Subjects :
- Paper
Canada
China
Annual average
chemistry.chemical_element
Pulp
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Russia
Agricultural science
Japan
Germany
Environmental Chemistry
Production (economics)
Stock (geology)
Carbon stock
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Consumption (economics)
General Chemistry
Half-life
Wood
Carbon
United Kingdom
chemistry
Environmental science
France
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15205851
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental sciencetechnology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bb59667a2fef7aa36e5da82dbf6b2df2