A multi-tiered approach for assessing the forestry and wood products industries’ impact on the carbon balance

Table 3 Differentiation of the areas of study in the matrix for assessing the forestry and wood-products industries’ impact on the CO ₂ balance

	Category of emission reduction/stock/sink
Approaches for assessing the forestry and wood products industries’ impact on the CO ₂ balance (Area x)	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 ]
*How do the forestry and wood product industries in Area x impact the CO* ₂ *balance in Area x (and the global CO* ₂ *balance)?*	Forest Area x	HWP from Forest Area x	All wood used as fuel in Area x	All wood processed/manufactured in Area x
Approach I: Kyoto Protocol-oriented approach	I	II	IV	VI
*How do the forest and consumers in Area x impact the global CO* ₂ *balance?*	Forest Area x	All HWP used in Area x	All wood used as fuel in Area x	All HWP used in Area x
Approach II: Consumer-oriented approach	I	III	IV	VII
*How do the forest and the harvested wood products from Area x impact the global CO* ₂ *balance?*	Forest Area x	HWP from Forest Area x	Wood from Area x used as fuel	HWP from Forest Area x
Approach III: Value-creation approach	I	II	V	VIII

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