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Article: TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE - ROLE OF WOOD PRODUCTS

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September 16, 2008
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The United Nations Economic and Social Council's Economic Commission for Europe issued the following news release:

Forests and wood play manifold roles in climate change mitigation: they sequester carbon from the atmosphere when they grow, produce wood energy to substitute fossil energy; deliver wood as renewable raw material which reduces greenhouse gas emissions when it substitutes more energy intensive material; and wood products are a store of carbon, keeping it from release to the atmosphere.

Although the capture and storage of carbon in forests is recognized in the Kyoto Protocol, the storage in wood products is not. Stock changes of wood products however influence the carbon balance ...

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