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Accounting for harvested wood products in a forest offset program: Lessons from California
Abstract
Carbon offset programs, such as that overseen by the California Air Resources Board (CA ARB), have emerged as a strategy for climate change mitigation. Offset projects sequestering carbon earn credits that can be traded on the Cap-and-Trade market to compensate for carbon emissions. The carbon stock embodied in harvested wood products can make up a substantial portion of the sequestered carbon in forest offset projects. In this paper we investigate the sensitivity of the calculations for the number of credits allocated to a forest offset project in the California system. We also examine how alternative models for the decay of harvested wood products might better reflect the dynamics of both the lifetime and cascade chain progression of the products and how this might change the amount of credits earned. The results suggest improved data collection and refinement in methodology would help to improve accuracy and reduce uncertainty in a large and important carbon stock. We conclude with offering suggestions on how an understanding of the dependence of harvested wood product stocks on life cycle parameters might affect the economics of offset programs and assist targeted mitigation efforts.
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“on the other hand, long lifespan wood products (e.g.construction elements) could offer similar time horizons with the advantage of an effective utilization of wood.”
From Transforming the bio-based sector towards a circular economy: What can we learn from wood cascading? (2020) · cites this paper as Bates et al., 2017
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“On the one hand, Bates et al. (2017) note that landfilling products would be the only option to guarantee permanent (or at least very long-term) storage of carbon in wood;”
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“Almost all of these studies point to the lack of reliable data as a major source of uncertainty and ambiguity in their results (Bais-Moleman et al., 2018;Bates et al., 2017;Bergeron, 2014;Fraanje, 1998;Höglmeier et al., 2015a;Kalcher et al., 2017;Lafleur and Fraanje, 1997;Mantau, 2015).”
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“Bates et al. (2017) develop a 100-year analysis of carbon storage in wooden products for carbon offset projects and conclude that the cascading practice should be incorporated into accounting protocols for its carbon storage characteristics, which vary greatly according to the context, the type and lifespan of products and the available end-of-life options.”
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- Authors
- Bates, L., Jones, B., Marland, E., Marland, G., Ruseva, T., Kowalczyk, T., & Hoyle, J.
- Affiliations
- Appalachian State University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Forest Economics
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 2017-04
- Volume
- 27
- Pages
- 50-59
- ISSN
- 1104-6899 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2599061262
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 1.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Forest Economics (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Research Joint Venture Agreement with the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research StationResearch Joint Venture Agreement with the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest Management and Policy
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest ecology and management
- Keywords
- harvested wood products, carbon credits, California Air Resources Board, emissions trading, carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation
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