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Silvicultura climáticamente inteligente

¿Qué es la silvicultura climáticamente inteligente?

Una colección de estrategias y acciones de manejo que aumentan los beneficios del almacenamiento de carbono de los bosques y el sector forestal, de una manera que también respalda los servicios ecosistémicos y los valores culturales. 1) reduce las emisiones de carbono, 2) aumenta la resiliencia de los bosques al cambio climático y 3) apoya las economías forestales al aumentar la productividad y los ingresos de los bosques.

Ampliación de los beneficios climáticos del sector forestal

Gran parte de las tierras forestales de los EE. UU. está dedicada a la silvicultura comercial, que produce productos de madera, papel, fibra y biocombustibles. La silvicultura y el valor económico continuo de las cadenas de suministro de la madera son esenciales para mantener las tierras forestales, respaldar los proyectos de conservación y proteger los bosques de la conversión de tierras.

A medida que el sector de la construcción busca descarbonizar la construcción, ha habido un énfasis creciente en el potencial de los edificios para almacenar carbono, en productos de madera de larga duración como la madera en masa y la madera de ingeniería, bloqueando las emisiones potenciales y protegiéndolos del fuego y la descomposición natural.

Sin embargo, existen dudas sobre los impactos ecológicos completos del aumento de la producción de madera. ¿Qué sucede con los bosques y los servicios de los ecosistemas a medida que la producción aumenta rápidamente? ¿Se puede lograr este crecimiento a través de una gestión forestal climáticamente inteligente? ¿Quién se beneficiará del crecimiento de la madera en masa? ¿Cómo afectará realmente la transformación de este sector a las comunidades rurales y las naciones tribales?

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Reclaimed and Reused: Recommended LCA Modeling Guidance to Support EPDs for Reused Construction Materials

Material reuse is one strategy for reducing the embodied carbon of construction. While the preparation of previously used materials for reuse has an environmental impact, it avoids many of the resource extraction and manufacturing impacts of building with newly manufactured products. Given the amount of demolition and deconstruction across North America (and beyond), there is a vast potential for material reuse to expand in scale. However, barriers to material reuse scaling exist.

DEQ Low Embodied Carbon Housing Program: Roadmap to Success

Embodied Carbon Pathways to 2050 for the United States, a collaboration between the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), RMI, and the University of Washington (UW) Life Cycle Lab, provides an assessment of embodied carbon from US construction materials and explores pathways to align with a 1.5°C global warming limit.

International Embodied Carbon Data Availability: A Review of Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Availability in Europe, China, and Australia

CLF completed a landscape analysis of product-level embodied carbon data availability in regions outside North America with the goals of: (i) understanding how LCA/EPD data availability varies globally; (ii) informing where targeted initiatives are needed to increase the availability of data; and (iii) determining whether adequate EPD data exists to develop CLF Material Baselines outside North America. This report summarizes our findings and provides initial insights into what data is available to inform low-carbon procurement efforts in Australia, China, and Europe.

The CLF Benchmark Explorer

Emissions from the operations of buildings and infrastructure are significant, well-understood contributors to national and global greenhouse gas emissions. However, the contribution of embodied carbon—emissions associated with the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal of construction materials across the life cycle of a building or asset—is neglected by comparison. Even at the global level, embodied carbon estimates are typically based on manufacturing emissions from the production of a handful of the highest-impact materials (e.g. concrete, steel, aluminum, and wood).

Embodied Carbon Pathways to 2050 for the United States

Embodied Carbon Pathways to 2050 for the United States, a collaboration between the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), RMI, and the University of Washington (UW) Life Cycle Lab, provides an assessment of embodied carbon from US construction materials and explores pathways to align with a 1.5°C global warming limit.

Washington State Carbon Emissions Estimation: 2025 – 2050

Emissions from the operations of buildings and infrastructure are significant, well-understood contributors to national and global greenhouse gas emissions. However, the contribution of embodied carbon—emissions associated with the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal of construction materials across the life cycle of a building or asset—is neglected by comparison. Even at the global level, embodied carbon estimates are typically based on manufacturing emissions from the production of a handful of the highest-impact materials (e.g. concrete, steel, aluminum, and wood).

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