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Crucially, the only reason plantations can save carbon is because wood is not carbon neutral. Because plantation forests are harvested young and repeatedly — in the tropics, often every ten years or less — they typically store less carbon than natural forests. However, plantations also produce more wood per hectare per year. This means they can save carbon overall by reducing the need to harvest wood from natural forests to meet the same demand for wood, allowing natural forests to store more carbon. If harvesting natural forests were carbon neutral, there would be no carbon losses to reduce.
What Economics Does — Or Doesn’t — Tell Us About the Climate Consequences of Using Wood
margaret.overholt@wri.org
Going further down is the long, slim, fragile stem comprising the remaining 50% of the world’s population, whose carbon use tapers away along with incomes. At the bottom are the hundreds of millions who live in extreme poverty and barely register in terms of greenhouse gases.
The Great Carbon Divide
Pip Burkett
The major energy saving is observed in primary steel, where the FE input is reduced by 79%
The CO2 Reduction Potential for the European Industry via Direct Electrification of Heat Supply
Silvia Madeddu
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