Timing of carbon emissions from global forest clearance

J. Mason Earles (), Sonia Yeh and Kenneth E. Skog
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J. Mason Earles: University of California, Davis, Institute of Transportation Studies
Sonia Yeh: University of California, Davis, Institute of Transportation Studies
Kenneth E. Skog: USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Economics and Statistics Research

Nature Climate Change, 2012, vol. 2, issue 9, 682-685

Abstract: Agricultural expansion and deforestation contribute to approximately 17% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. The fate of cleared wood and subsequent carbon storage as wood products, however, has not been consistently estimated. Now research fills this gap and shows that 30 years after forest clearance the percentage of carbon stored in wood products and landfills ranges from about 0% to 62% globally.

Date: 2012
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