which indicate carbon amount in use and destined to landfills. HWP Carbon estimates
Recycling inclusion relays upon data availability.
Estimates of forest products contribution, in terms of carbon, use generic
variables, including (i) domestic HWP and imports (tCO2e / year); (ii) annual variation of
HWP produced domestically, including annual variations on exported HWP (tCO2e /
year); (iii) annual imports of all kinds of wood and paper (tCO2e / year); (iv) annual
exports of all kinds of wood and paper (tCO2e / year); and (v) annual HWP (tCO2e /
year). The level of lost on solid products and paper, in a given year, are specified
towards the use of a lost constant (k), which by convenience is expressed in terms of
half-life in services, in years. Half-life in service describes the number of year necessary
for half of the material to change environment, which can be, for example, from a home
to landfill, within that sector where it remains stored. Solid wood and paper production,
imports and exports are converted from m3 or tons into tCO2e.For annual estimates
calculation the method uses yield data (Consumption = Domestic Production + Imports
Exports).
Globally forests store circa of 8.4 billion tCO2e and are capable of retaining some
further billions, while 4.2 to 20 billion tCO2e are estimated to be stored within HWP in
use. World wood production includes more than 1.5 billion m3 / year of industrial logs,
accounting for something like 1.1 billion tCO2e / year (WGCCFP, 2004), with 420 million
m3 of sawed lumber and 220 million m3 on plywood and panels - representing some
20% of total in long life-spam forest products, which sequester and store close to 200
million tCO2e each year.
The 3.4 billion m3 of yearly global harvested wood is equivalent to just 20% of
total yields (some 17 billion m3 / year). A lot from what is harvested becomes used for
direct and inefficient burning as fuel wood. Increasing the biomass amount taken from
forests and harvesting yields would have a profound positive effect to fight global
warming. With the use of extra 2 billion m3 / year industrial woods will be possible to
reduce between 14 and 31% of all cement and steel GHG emissions and between 12 to
19% of all fossil fuel consumption by the use of residues from industrial wood
production chains for clean energy appliances. With the intensification of sustainable
forest management more CO2 is sequestered and stored avoiding emissions from
alternative materials and still producing renewable energy from harvesting residues.
Besides, harvested volumes are renewed. Brazil has by far the largest global stock and
growth of hardwoods which have the longest life-spam between tree species, making
them relevant suppliers of HWP storing carbon for many years.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC was
established with the aim of analyzing from the scientific, socioenvironmental and
political points of views technological solutions which can be broadly used around the
globe to stop CO2 levels from raising. Being as such is essential that those
technologies under transference from Developed to Developing Countries, within
anthropogenic global climate change adaptation and mitigation objectives, become
useful by local populations on the short, medium and long terms. Those technologies
must place a contribution for implementing a sustainable development pattern from
social, economic and environmental perspectives. Technologies which contribute to
improve economic activity, social inclusion and preserve environmental quality.
Brazilian Amazon forest biodiversity rational use from wood species cultivated
under contemporary silviculture techniques is key to assure its conservation. DW and
HWP consumption for social wood housing construction and renovation assures
demand intensification. From one side native tree species plantations guarantee an
increase on stock and yields levels while at the other point construction companies
make native trees species wood market available. Along pre-history, Ancient Age,
Middle Age, Modern Age and Contemporary Age trees and forests have gone through
modifications. These modifications include continental derive, glaciations and interglaciations, meteorites, storms, plagues, animals and relationships with men. At the
begging there were some 27,000 trees per inhabitant in the planet all of which from
native forests, while nowadays the 370 trees available for each person are majorly
represented by semi-natural (75) and plantation (43) forests both werent around even
at the Modern Age. From the economic and social point of view the investment for
creating a job post within the forest sector is of US$ 600 while US$ 17,000 are needed
to do the same at urban areas in Brazil. Diversified native tree species plantations for
industrial use is essential to assure an increase on the level of jobs creation, income
generation and forest biodiversity conservation. There should be a significant increase
on the number of species and hectares cultivating native woods in Brazil over the next
decade or two.
In Europe and United States the cultivation and consumption of native forests for
industrial use is historical and responsible for stock and yields levels increase.
Selection of individuals, seed collection, nursery production, fertilization, irrigation,
breeding and genetic modification turned European stocks from 100 to 300 m3 / ha
between the XVIII and XX centuries. US native tree species cultivation at Southern
Florida reached 450 m3 / ha from the same 100 m3 / ha. In Brazil the same has been
observed from a variety of wood species be it introduced (Pinussp, Eucalyptus sp etc)
or native (Araucaria angustifolia, Schizolobiumamazonicum etc).What is observed is a
forest biological reaction to silvicultural treatments determining short and long term
productivity and stocks increase. Replacing natural regeneration by forest plantations
increases standing stocks and summed up the positive effects of contemporary
silviculture elevates harvesting volumes. In the world circa of forest plantation are
from country`s native species. Countries with significant natural forest reserves, as
Canada and Russia, coordinate project activities by species occurrences micro regions,
the Ecological Zones of Occurrence or Ecoregions. At North America proportion of
introduced tree species under cultivation is less than 5%, while in South America less
than 5% of forest plantations are from native tree species. Only in Oceania there will be
a little more than 20% of native tree species under cultivation, in Africa they are 60%, in
Asia 70% and in Europe 90% of cultivated forests are from native tree species.
Within those regions with larger timber consumption in the planet the forest cover
has increased over the last 25 years, as in Europe, China and India, while within
regions with less consumption of industrial logs deforestation is the rule for the same
period. It is the consumption of industrial logs which contributes to keep and increase
forested areas, reducing deforestation and degradation at large.
For My Home My Life Program (PMCMV) and the National Rural Housing
Program (PNRH) at Brazilian Northern region, the use of tropical woods from
sustainable sources replacing social housing cement and steel, increasing stocks and
IWCS advocates for a harmonious living between people and nature, explores the value
of wood use from a cultural perspective and supplies a platform for studying wood
culture, encouraging its practice and promotion. IWCS established March, 21 st as Wood
World Day, a data to disseminate the value wood aggregates to daily life. IWCS, just as
Normative 318/2014, PMCMC and PNHR promote the concept that: Wood is Good!