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Table 1 Mitigation scenarios used in this study

From: Inward- versus outward-focused bioeconomy strategies for British Columbia’s forest products industry: a harvested wood products carbon storage and emission perspective

Mitigation scenarios

Abbreviation

1. Baseline scenario

BASE

2. Theoretical extreme scenarios

 2.1 All harvested biomass manufactured to construction material

ALL_CONS

 2.2 All harvested biomass used as feedstock for renewable fuel

ALL_FUEL

3. Inward-focused scenarios

 3.1 Domestic demand increase driven by population

IN_POP

 3.2 Increase domestic market share of timber construction

IN_CONS

 3.3 Prioritize domestic wood-derived transportation biofuel

IN_FUEL

4. Outward-focused scenarios

 4.1 Prioritize export to US and other markets for construction

OU_CONS

 4.2 Prioritize export to China

OU_CN

 4.3 Prioritize wood pellets export to EU and Japan for energy

OU_PLTS