New Report: Report Regarding the Legal and Scientific Legitimacy of Treating Biomass as Biogenically Carbon Neutral in Draft CRCF Methodologies
Oct. 30, 2024
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…
What Economics Does — or Doesn’t — Tell Us About the Climate Consequences of Using Wood
Oct. 30, 2024
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,…