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Silvicoltura intelligente per il clima

Che cos'è la silvicoltura intelligente per il clima?

Una raccolta di strategie e azioni di gestione che aumentano i benefici di stoccaggio del carbonio dalle foreste e dal settore forestale, in un modo che supporta anche i servizi ecosistemici e i valori culturali. 1) riduce le emissioni di carbonio, 2) aumenta la resilienza delle foreste ai cambiamenti climatici e 3) sostiene le economie forestali aumentando la produttività e il reddito delle foreste.

Amplificare i benefici climatici del settore forestale

Gran parte delle foreste degli Stati Uniti è dedicata alla silvicoltura commerciale, producendo prodotti in legno, carta, fibre e biocarburanti. La silvicoltura e il continuo valore economico delle catene di approvvigionamento del legno sono essenziali per mantenere le foreste, sostenere progetti di conservazione e proteggere le foreste dalla conversione della terra.

Mentre il settore edile cerca di decarbonizzare le costruzioni, c'è stata una crescente enfasi sul potenziale per gli edifici di immagazzinare carbonio, in prodotti in legno di lunga durata come legno massiccio e legno ingegnerizzato, bloccando le potenziali emissioni e proteggendole dal fuoco e dalla decomposizione naturale.

Tuttavia, ci sono domande sull'impatto ecologico completo dell'aumento della produzione di legname. Cosa succede alle foreste e ai servizi ecosistemici quando la produzione aumenta rapidamente? Questa crescita può essere raggiunta attraverso una gestione forestale intelligente per il clima? Chi trarrà vantaggio dalla crescita del legname di massa? In che modo la trasformazione di questo settore influirà effettivamente sulle comunità rurali e sulle nazioni tribali?

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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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