Realizing the social value of impermanent carbon credits

A Balmford, S Keshav, F Venmans, D Coomes… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Efforts to avert dangerous climate change by conserving and restoring natural habitats are
hampered by concerns over the credibility of methods used to quantify their long-term …

The carbon costs of global wood harvests

L Peng, TD Searchinger, J Zionts, R Waite - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
After agriculture, wood harvest is the human activity that has most reduced the storage of
carbon in vegetation and soils,. Although felled wood releases carbon to the atmosphere in …

The social value of offsets

B Groom, F Venmans - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
It is unclear how much carbon should be stored in temporary and risky offsets to compensate
one ton of CO2 emissions. Here we cast the social value of an offset (SVO), measured in …

A comparative analysis of the cumulative greenhouse gas emissions and financial viability of residential heating systems located in New York state

J Frank, T Brown, HS Ha, D Slade… - Biofuels, Bioproducts …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving the stringent climate goals established by New York State will require significant
emissions reductions across the agriculture, commercial and residential, electricity, industry …

A Comparative Parametric Study on Dynamic Biogenic Carbon of Harvested Wood Products: Biomass Rotation Period vs. Product Lifetime

S Kouamé, A Ghannadzadeh - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Harvested wood products (HWPs) are a class of products that are recognized for their
potential to mitigate climate warming: the absorption of CO2, which is necessary to the …

Context-specific assessment methods for life cycle-related environmental impacts caused by buildings: Energy in Buildings and Communities Technology …

T Lützkendorf, M Balouktsi, R Frischknecht… - 2023 - vbn.aau.dk
This report focuses on methodological issues related to the determination, assessment and
presentation of the environmental performance of buildings. The purpose of this report is to …

Working paper on the numerical modelling framework to compare different accounting schemes

M Paschen, F Meier, W Rickels - 2023 - oceanrep.geomar.de
Any integration of extra carbon dioxide removal (CDR) via terrestrial or marine sink
enhancement into climate policies requires accounting for their effectiveness in reducing …