Opportunities for Transparency and Carbon Calculations for the Wood Supply Chain

This session will look at potential for wood procurement to move beyond business-as-usual sourcing to support climate-smart forestry and provide new pathways to procuring sustainably harvested wood, calculating carbon impacts of forest management, and targeting certain landowner types for equitable economic impact. For forest impact accounting, presenters will illustrate how to estimate forest carbon stock and timber product outputs using publicly-available data, summarized and reported at relevant scales, and translated into embodied carbon factors for use in wood LCA with various levels of transparency data.