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• The Timber Innovation for Build- ing Rural Communities Act mandates wood product research as well as a plat- form for data on forest management’s impact on carbon emissions, sequestra- tion and storage.
This spring, a coalition of national for- estry organizations announced a plan to establish a cooperative relationship to sup- port development and delivery of a pub- licly accessible platform for accessing and estimating forest and harvested wood car- bon. The platform will use USDA Forest Entity-Level Guidance and other applica- ble measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification (MMRV) methodologies for the United States forest sector.
The coalition unites several key organizations, including the Research and Development branch of the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, the American Forest Foundation (AFF), NAFO, the American Wood Council (AWC), the Hardwood Federation, the Decorative Hardwoods Association (DHA), and the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA).
“This platform will allow the sector to report on its carbon emissions in a unique and comprehensive way for the entire for- estry supply chain, which has not been done anywhere yet,” said Michael Goer- gen, vice president for innovation at the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Com- munities. “This will be the first time that any sector has been able to report on its carbon emissions in any country. The U.S. forest sector is the first in the industrial sector that is able to do this.”
Tools to Capture
Key Data on Carbon
The coalition aims to develop six new tools that will revolutionize the forest sector’s ability to track and report comprehensive carbon data, enabling consistent holis- tic reporting at three starting points: the landowner, manufacturer and end-user.
Embodied Carbon Tool
1
Acquisition
Due Diligence
Disposition
This will combine emissions data asso- ciated with materials or construction processes of manufactured wood prod- ucts available in published Environmen- tal Product Declarations (EPDs), with wood product flows provided by the USDA Entity-Level Guidance for greenhouse gas emissions to make it possible to access embodied carbon values using a variety of starting points (a harvested log, a
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