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Foresterie intelligente face au climat

Qu'est-ce que la foresterie intelligente face au climat ?

Un ensemble de stratégies et d'actions de gestion qui augmentent les bénéfices du stockage de carbone des forêts et du secteur forestier, d'une manière qui soutient également les services écosystémiques et les valeurs culturelles. Il 1) réduit les émissions de carbone, 2) augmente la résilience des forêts au changement climatique, et 3) soutient les économies forestières en augmentant la productivité et les revenus forestiers.

Amplifier les bénéfices climatiques du secteur forestier

Une grande partie des terres forestières des États-Unis est consacrée à la foresterie commerciale — produisant des produits du bois, du papier, des fibres et des biocarburants. La foresterie et la valeur économique continue des chaînes d'approvisionnement du bois sont essentielles au maintien des terres forestières, au soutien des projets de conservation et à la protection des forêts contre la conversion des terres.

Alors que le secteur du bâtiment cherche à décarboniser la construction, l'accent est mis de plus en plus sur le potentiel des bâtiments à stocker du carbone, dans les produits du bois à longue durée de vie comme le bois massif et le bois d'ingénierie, en bloquant les émissions potentielles et en les protégeant du feu et de la décomposition naturelle.

Cependant, des questions se posent quant à l'ensemble des impacts écologiques de l'augmentation de la production de bois. Qu'advient-il des forêts et des services écosystémiques à mesure que la production augmente rapidement ? Cette croissance peut-elle être obtenue grâce à une gestion forestière intelligente face au climat ? A qui profitera la croissance du bois massif ? Quel sera l'impact réel de la transformation de ce secteur sur les communautés rurales et les nations 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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