Nature: The carbon costs of global wood harvests

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I came across this paper recently, and although I haven’t had the time to read through it thoroughly, it seems to address the time value of carbon with respect to wood harvest, with the following outcome:

“We find that forest harvests between 2010 and 2050 will probably have annualized carbon costs of 3.5–4.2 Gt CO2e yr−1, which approach common estimates of annual emissions from land-use change due to agricultural expansion.”

I wonder what the impacts are on EPDs and biogenic carbon accounting for wood products?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06187-1

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This report from the WRI is from the same authors, they provide their code as well which I hope to test out when I have the time. This report seems highly relevant to this community: Wood Is Not the Climate-friendly Building Material Some Claim it to Be

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