Forest Products Industry
Calculation Tools
Reid Miner, Brad Upton, Jim Palumbo, NCASI
Member Associations of ICFPA
Greenhouse gas emissions
- Pulp and paper mills • Sponsored by ICFPA
• Version 1.0 released
2001
• Version 1.1 released
2005
• Includes report and
Excel® spreadsheet
• Accepted for use under
WRI/WBCSD GHG
Protocol
• www.ghgprotocol.org
Greenhouse gas emission tools
- Pulp and paper mills • Coverage
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Fossil fuel combustion - stationary & mobile sources
CH4 and N2O from biomass combustion
Process-related emissions
CH4 from landfills and anaerobic wastewater treatment
Indirect emissions from purchased power
Special topics
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Reporting CO2 releases from biomass combustion
Kraft mill lime kilns
CHP emissions allocation
Power and steam exports
• Other inventory issues (e.g. boundaries,
materiality) covered by specific programs
Greenhouse gas emissions
- Wood product manufacturing • Sponsored by ICFPA
• Version 1.0 released
2005
• Includes report and
Excel® spreadsheet
• Accepted for use
under WRI/WBCSD
GHG Protocol
• www.ghgprotocol.org
Greenhouse gas emission tools
- Wood product manufacturing • Coverage
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Fossil fuel combustion, stationary & mobile sources
CH4 and N2O from biomass combustion
CH4 from landfills and anaerobic wastewater treatment
Indirect emissions from purchased power
Special topics
• Reporting CO2 releases from biomass combustion
• CHP emissions allocation
• Power and steam exports
• Other inventory issues (e.g. boundaries, materiality)
covered by specific accounting programs
Acceptance of the ICFPA/NCASI
greenhouse gas emissions tools
• Official uses
– Accepted under WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol
– Resource in developing EU ETS guidelines
– Resource in developing Canadian requirements
• ICFPA/NCASI tools, or systems based on
them, are used extensively in the industry
– 3/4 of North American production, including
essentially all mills in Canada
– Global use
Carbon sequestration tool
- carbon in products-in-use • Sponsored by ICFPA
• First draft released
late 2004
• Revised draft
released Nov. 2005
• Includes report and
spreadsheet with
user-friendly interface
• Submitted to WRI and
WBCSD for review
Why include carbon in products?
• Sequestration in products is an
important part of the industry’s global
carbon profile
• Direct emissions
~ 72 million tonnes C eq. per year
• Annual growth in carbon stored in
products in use
~ 40 million tonnes C per year *
* Estimate
from IPCC Harvested Wood Products Experts Technical Report
The 100-year method
Fraction of product remaining in use
Calculates tonnes of C in current production that will
remain sequestered for 100 years
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Multiply these fractions by the
amounts of carbon in the
respective products
manufactured in a given year.
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Time
100 years
Time in use
Primary products
Final products in commerce
(IPCC 2005 default guidance)
(Skog and Nicholson)
Half Life
in Use
(years)
Sawnwood
35
Structural panels
30
Nonstructural panels
20
Paper
2
Half Life in
Use (years)
Single-family homes
100
Multifamily homes
70
Residential Upkeep
50
Mobile homes
20
Nonresidential construction
67
Pallets
6
Manufacturing
12
Furniture
30
Railroad ties
30
Paper (free sheet)
6
Paper (all others)
1
My inventory
OSB Production for 2004
All data, conversion factors, assumptions, etc.
documented in the underlying spreadsheet
ICFPA/NCASI product carbon
sequestration calculation tool
• A corporate inventory tool for estimating
carbon sequestration in products
• Report and spreadsheet available on NCASI
web site
www.ncasi.org
• Follow navigation menus to;
programs/climate change/carbon in forest products
Tools for corporate accounting of
forest carbon sequestration
• Industrial forests not normally managed to
accumulate carbon
• But for interested companies, there are
options – For instance…
– IPCC national inventory methods
– WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Project Standard
– Specific program guidance
• Canadian Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian
Forest Sector (CBMCFS3)
• U.S., Carbon On-Line Estimator (COLE)
http://carbon.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/downloads_e.html
http://ncasi.uml.edu/COLE/cole.html
Optimizing forest management for
carbon and other objectives
• Tools are needed to help optimize forest
management across multiple objectives
– Saw timber and pulp wood output
– Target age class distribution
– Clear cut and adjacency constraints
– Wildlife habitat and corridors
– Conservation and sensitive area set-asides
– Carbon
• Habplan – Software for Spatial Forest
Harvest Scheduling
Habplan
Descriptive data and management
constraints entered for each polygon
Much of the information can be
directly uploaded from common forest
management software programs
Management objectives (targets) are
weighted by user
Target forest output
Actual forest output
Age class distribution
Clear cut size
constraints and “green
up” requirements
Other environmental
constraints entered in
polygon data sets, e.g.
• corridors
• special habitat
Actual ~ Target
Carbon accumulation
Target
Actual
http://ncasi.uml.edu/projects/habplan/
Other tools for value chain and
substitution effects
• TimberCAM
http://www.greenhouse.crc.org.au/calculators/timbercam/
Summary
• Variety of tools available for corporate inventories
• A number of these have been accepted by the industry
globally, working under the auspices of ICFPA
– ICFPA/NCASI Corporate inventory tools for greenhouse gas emissions
related to pulp, paper, and wood product manufacturing
– ICFPA/NCASI Corporate inventory tools for carbon stored in products
in use
• Tools for corporate inventory accounting of forest carbon
– Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBMCFS3)
– C.O.L.E. (U.S. based, USFS data driven)
– Habplan (allows companies to optimize harvest scheduling considering
forest carbon values and other forest outputs and values)
• Tools also available for value chain accounting using methods
less suited to corporate inventory accounting
– TimberCAM
Thank you