Including carbon storage in calculation Wood?

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I am calculating the emission - purchased goods - for a company that has a lot of wood in its purchased goods.
In the FLAG-documentation I can find that there is a possibility to include the carbon storage/capture of trees in the calculation of the emission.

But I can not figure out how to include this exactly?

In Eco-invent there are many emission factors for the lodging and sawing of wood and for many types of trees. There is a distinction between sustainable forest management and non-sustainable. This choice of emission factor already includes the replacement of the trees, but not the carbon capture if I am correct.

Does somebody knows if indeed it is allowed or when it is allowed to include carbon capture? And if so, how to include this?

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Hi Tom,

Yes, under the Land Sector Removal Guidance you can (should) report removals from forestry. You can report them under the land-based categories.

However, the LSRG is not final and the quantification of those removals is one of the pending isssues (you can google on “forestry accounting in LSRG”).

So I would say that you wait for the final guidance of the LSRG on this. If you need something in the meantime, I would say you need to look into academic research on carbon capture in forests.

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Thanks, Kenneth. I will look into it.

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