Evaluating the Role of Wood Products as Carbon Offsets
A webinar featuring industry experts discussing the role of wood products in decreasing net emissions.
Details
After trees are harvested, their carbon storage capacities continue through wood products, contributing to US carbon sinks alongside living forests. Strong markets for wood products can encourage reforestation and prolong the duration of carbon storage, but challenges to the viability of these markets and calculating carbon credits, especially in the face of increased wildfire intensity and frequency, remain.
On Wednesday, March 26, Resources for the Future (RFF) hosted a webinar convening researchers and forest sector analysts. Together, these experts addressed critiques; examined the role of wood products in carbon accounting and offset markets; identified opportunities for crediting protocols; and clarified the role of wood products in reducing net emissions.
Speakers
- Grant Domke, Research Forester, USDA Forest Service
- Brent Sohngen, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University
- David Wear, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
Panelists
- Vaughan Andrews, Senior Program Manager, Sustainability, Weyerhaeuser Company
- Ethan Belair, Senior Forest Carbon Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
- Rita Hite, President and CEO, American Forest Foundation
- Edie Sonne Hall, Principal, Three Trees Consulting
- Ann M. Bartuska, Senior Advisor, Resources for the Future (Moderator)
