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manufactured product or as part of a broader project, such as a whole build- ing). The data would reflect geographical parameters and a broad range of forests and product types.
5 Land Carbon Regional Accounting Factor Tool
This will enable landowners, manufac- turers, architects, engineers and other end users to use FIA data to measure car- bon-stock change across a region or wood basket, along with the amount of harvest in the same region.
Harvested Wood 6
Products (HWP) Carbon Tool
This will enable landowners, manufactur- ers and other end users to quantify carbon storage in wood products over a 100-year timeframe, using the query tables in the USDA Entity-Level Guidance in an acces- sible format.
The USDA has established a methodol- ogy for reporting carbon-level emissions via their Entity-Level Guidance, which will inform the development of these tools. The public-private partnership between the coalition and USDA under- scores a unique and essential unification of the industry, with the sector coming together to tell its story.
“I don’t think there has ever been a time when we could look at this and go ‘Wow, everyone really is coming together!’ It’s

pretty wild in that sense,” Goergen said. “Overall, the platform helps position the forest sector as both the leader in trans- parency about what we are doing in the forest and with forest products, and also as a leader in providing solutions for climate change through carbon sequestration.”
Tracking With
Blockchain
Adding to transparent data efforts, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Com- munities is also focused on developing a method of tracking forest carbon through the blockchain. And no, we’re not talking about cryptocurrency.
“Blockchain can be used to create a transparent and immutable ledger that records every transaction within a forest product’s supply chain and that move- ment, starting from the point of origin to the final destination, including the end user,” said Teal Edelen, the Endowment’s program officer. “Each stage of the supply chain can be recorded as a block on that blockchain, ensuring the entire journey of that product is traceable from the begin- ning to the end.”
This digital ledger will serve as a public
Displacement Factor Tool
This will use published displacement-fac- tor values found in the USDA Entity-Level Guidance to calculate the substitution ben- efits of wood products compared to fossil- intensive, mineral-based systems. The tool would make it possible for a user to compare the carbon impact of a log, wood product or the end use to alternatives.
Forest Carbon 3 Inventory Tool
This will allow landowners to convert species- and stand-level data to carbon stocks, including above- and below- ground pools, and to standardize reliable forest carbon reporting.
Landowner Carbon Inventory Tool
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This will provide landowners custom- izable look-up tables for smaller area estimations, using FIA data.
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