Comments to the European Commission on carbon removals:

The European Commission is developing methodologies to award carbon credits for measures that remove carbon from the air. But the draft methodologies as of September 2024 treat biomass as carbon neutral. This is a short report for WWF Europe and FERN providing reasons that is not…

Comment on using economic models to estimate the emissions from wood harvest and use: Should climate strategy encourage more harvesting or less harvesting of wood?

One claim is that increased demand for wood will lead to more forests and is therefore good for the climate. This essay for the World Resources Institute with co-author,…

In this report, WRI researchers explore how rising demand for food, wood and shelter is squeezing land that’s needed for storing carbon and protecting biodiversity. This research uses new modeling to give a true global picture of the carbon opportunity costs for land use and proposes a four-pronged approach–produce, protect, reduce, restore–for…

Because concrete and steel used to construct buildings are a major source of global greenhouse gas emissions, there is growing interest in “mass timber” — a supposedly lower-carbon option — to replace them. Here are five interrelated reasons that turning to more wood for buildings is not a climate- or environmentally friendly solution…

Research papers and policymakers have largely overlooked the contribution that harvesting wood has on fueling climate change, but a closer look tells a much different story.

Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing human population and how to minimize environmental damage associated with intensive agriculture. Keeping more nitrogen in soil as ammonium may be one key way to address both challenges, according to 

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