Скачать или смотреть Decarbonizing the West Boise workshop: Carbon Storage in Mass Timber

Forests are excellent at sequestering carbon into biomass, but less effective at retaining carbon over long timescales. Stabilizing forest carbon within long-lived building materials presents a powerful opportunity to not only mitigate carbon emissions from wildfires and decomposition, but also to defray the costs of forest health treatments. Achieving these dual benefits requires growing both the supply chains for mass timber products as well as the markets for utilizing them. This panel examined strategies for expanding mass timber utilization and its benefits for forest restoration economics and natural carbon sequestration.

Panelists: Jennifer Okerlund, Director, Idaho Forest Products Commission, Bill Parsons, Chief Operating Officer, WoodWorks – Wood Product Council, Julie Kies, U.S. Forest Service, Wood Innovations Program Manager. Moderated by: Rachael Jamison, Vice President, Markets and Sustainability, American Wood Council.