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Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016
The use of harvested wood products (HWPs) influences the carbon flux. China is both the major producer and trader of HWP, so estimating the carbon stock change of China’s HWP is important to help curb climate change. Accurate reporting and accounting of carbon flows in the HWP pool is needed to meet...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388235/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30717430 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030445 |
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author | Zhang, Luyang Sun, Yankun Song, Tianyuan Xu, Jiaqi |
author_facet | Zhang, Luyang Sun, Yankun Song, Tianyuan Xu, Jiaqi |
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description | The use of harvested wood products (HWPs) influences the carbon flux. China is both the major producer and trader of HWP, so estimating the carbon stock change of China’s HWP is important to help curb climate change. Accurate reporting and accounting of carbon flows in the HWP pool is needed to meet greenhouse gas monitoring and climate change mitigation objectives under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement. This study applied production approach (PA) to estimate the carbon stock change of China’s HWP from 1900 to 2016. During the estimating period, the carbon stock of HWP in use and deposed at solid waste disposal sites (SWDS) were 649.2 Teragrams Carbon (TgC) (346.8 TgC in wood-based panels, 216.7 TgC in sawnwood and 85.7 TgC in paper & paperboard) and 72.6 TgC, respectively. The carbon amount of annual domestic harvest HWP varied between 87.6 and 118.7 TgC. However, the imported carbon inflow increased significantly after the 1990s and reached 47.6 TgC in 2016, accounting for 46% of the domestic harvest of that year. China has great mitigation potential from HWP and use of this resource should be considered in future strategies to address climate change. |
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spelling | pubmed-63882352019-02-27 Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016 Zhang, Luyang Sun, Yankun Song, Tianyuan Xu, Jiaqi Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The use of harvested wood products (HWPs) influences the carbon flux. China is both the major producer and trader of HWP, so estimating the carbon stock change of China’s HWP is important to help curb climate change. Accurate reporting and accounting of carbon flows in the HWP pool is needed to meet greenhouse gas monitoring and climate change mitigation objectives under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement. This study applied production approach (PA) to estimate the carbon stock change of China’s HWP from 1900 to 2016. During the estimating period, the carbon stock of HWP in use and deposed at solid waste disposal sites (SWDS) were 649.2 Teragrams Carbon (TgC) (346.8 TgC in wood-based panels, 216.7 TgC in sawnwood and 85.7 TgC in paper & paperboard) and 72.6 TgC, respectively. The carbon amount of annual domestic harvest HWP varied between 87.6 and 118.7 TgC. However, the imported carbon inflow increased significantly after the 1990s and reached 47.6 TgC in 2016, accounting for 46% of the domestic harvest of that year. China has great mitigation potential from HWP and use of this resource should be considered in future strategies to address climate change. MDPI 2019-02-02 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6388235/ /pubmed/30717430 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030445 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Luyang Sun, Yankun Song, Tianyuan Xu, Jiaqi Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016 |
title | Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016 |
title_full | Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016 |
title_fullStr | Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016 |
title_full_unstemmed | Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016 |
title_short | Harvested Wood Products as a Carbon Sink in China, 1900–2016 |
title_sort | harvested wood products as a carbon sink in china, 1900–2016 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388235/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30717430 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030445 |
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