BATISTA, E. R.

HOSOKAWA, R. T

OLIVEIRA, E. B. de

SIQUEIRA, J. D. P.

SOUZA, D. M. de

XIMENES, F.

ZANETTI, E. A.

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XIII Congreso Forestal Mundial Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18-23 Octubre 2009Title: The Carbon Market and the Harvested Wood Products Potential within Latin AmericaAuthors: Zanetti, Ederson Augusto; Oliveira, Edilson Batista; Souza, Danielle Maia De; Hosokawa,Roberto T; Siqueira, Joesio D P; Ximenes, Fabiano; Reis, EuniceThema: 3. Forests in the service of peopleSubtheme: 3.2 Forests and climate changeAbstract of the paper: The International Panel on Climate Change — IPCC, estimates a potential ofemission’s reduction or sequestration for seven sectors contribution for climate change mitigationuntil 2030: energy, industry, construction, transport, agriculture, residues and forests. Forest sectorcontributes to global climate change through different ways: trees sequestrate carbon during theirnatural growing process, forest stands store carbon in their aerial and underground biomass, litter,dead wood and soils and Harvested Wood Products - HWP either keep the carbon for periodsranging from one to a couple hundred of years, depending on their raw material origin andcharacteristics. Some woods are used in the same years as energy, others are applied to paperproducts and there are also many used for construction and furniture. HWP are part of carbon stocksand flux considerations within the Agriculture Forests And Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector ofKyoto Protocol. Currently, national reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and removals in LatinAmerica does not include carbon store in HWP, however, carbon stored in HWP can be used tooffset part of Greenhouse Gases - GHG emissions, taking into account the lifetime of differentmaterials, resulting from forest harvesting. As an example, the consumption of HWP in Brazil in2006, discounting exports, was in order of 187,1 million m3 / year, 42,3 Tg of Cabon. When thisvalue is subtracted from the country’s total GHG emissions, the result is around a 75% reduction.Within this context, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a managerial instrument which helps identifyingenvironmental impacts along each production chain, can help the compilation of mass and energybalances and on identification of forest sector impacts. Strategies have been suggested to increaseforest products consumption and therefore forest sector contribution to face global climate change.The Latin America has low rates of forest production and consumption levels, thus increasingregional use and trade of long living wood species can largely contribute to mitigate global climatechange impacts.Email: eder.zanetti@cnpf.embrapa.br, edilson@enpf.embrapa.br, danimaiasouza@gmx.net,rth@onda.com.br, joesio@step.com.br, fabianox@sf.nsw.goy.au, nicereis@cnpma.embrapa.brEmbrapa FlorestasBIBLIOTECA

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