Table 2 Matrix for assessing forestry and wood products industries’ impact on the CO 2 balance (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany for the period from 2005 to 2010)
Category of emission reduction/stock/sink | TOTAL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Approaches for assessing forestry and wood products industries’ impact on the CO 2 balance (North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW) | Forest sink | HWP sink | Fuel substitution | Material substitution | |
Changes in forest carbon stock | Changes in HWP carbon stock | CO2 impact of wood fuel | CO2 impact of wood product usage | ||
[Mt CO 2 ] | [Mt CO 2 ] | [Mt CO 2 ] | [Mt CO 2 ] | [Mt CO 2 ] | |
How do the forestry and wood product industries in NRW impact the CO 2 balance in NRW (and the global CO 2 balance)? | Forest in NRW | HWP from forests in NRW | All wood used as fuel in NRW | All wood processed/manufactured in NRW | |
Approach I: Kyoto Protocol-oriented approach | (–4) | –1.1 | –5.0 | –7.9 | –18.0 |
How do the forest and consumers in NRW impact the global CO 2 balance? | Forest in NRW | All HWP used in NRW | All wood used as fuel in NRW | All HWP used in NRW | |
Approach II: Consumer-oriented approach | (–4) | –3.3 | –5.0 | –9.1 | –21.4 |
How do the forest and the harvested wood products from NRW impact the global CO 2 balance? | Forest in NRW | HWP from forests in NRW | Wood from NRW used as fuel (of which ca. 0.5 Mt is not statistically recorded as harvested wood) | HWP from forests in NRW | |
Approach III: Value-creation approach | (–4) | –1.1 | –2.5 | –3.6 | –11.2 |