Climate Change and Wood
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50%
of wood is carbon. source: Wood Products and Carbon Protocols report,Dovetail Partners Inc Up to 1.83 kg of carbon dioxide is captured in 1 kg of wood (1 kg wood stores 0.50 kg carbon, 1 kg carbon converts to 3.67 kg carbon dioxide (molecular weight of CO2 is 44, C is 12). source: FPInnovations - Forintek "Wood and Climate Change", 2009 Up to 1 tonne of carbon dioxide is captured in 1 cubic meter of wood (Density of DFir is 530 kg/cubic meter, and since 1kg wood has sequestered 1.83 kg carbon dioxide, 530 kg wood has sequestered 970 kg carbon dioxide, or 0.97 tonne in 1 cubic meter. The volume of carbon dioxide is 556.2 cubic meters per tonne source: International Carbon Bank & Exchange |
5 years
of car emissions are sequestered in a typical home (29 tonnes of carbon dioxide or 12,500 litres of gas). 29 tonnes of carbon dioxide is captured in a typical wood-frame home (a 2400 sqft home has 15536 kg wood in structural components x 1.83 = 28516 kg carbon dioxide, or almost 29 tonnes). source: FPInnovations - Forintek "Wood and Climate Change", 2009 Carbon negative Wood products sequester more carbon dioxide than is emitted during harvesting, transportation and manufacturing, which means they actually have a negative greenhouse gas footprint. source: Canadian Wood. Renewable by Nature. Sustainable by Design |
50% of the energy needed to manufacture wood products is from carbon-neutral renewable fuels. source: "Status of energy use in the Canadian wood products sector" J.Meil et al FPInnovations - Forintek, 2009 More than 25 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere every year to produce the wood for new houses in the United States. source: Wilson, J. 2006. "Using Wood to Reduce Global Warming", Oregon Forest Research Institute Up to 1 tonne of carbon dioxide is saved by substituting one cubic metre of wood for other construction materials. source: Using Wood to Mitigate Climate Change International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004 |