Fig. 23

Wood Harvesting and Storage (WHS) siphons off a sustainable fraction of the biosphere production in the form of harvested wood and stores it in engineered Wood Vaults to prevent decomposition, forming an effective carbon sink. WHS is a ‘near-perfect’ reversal of fossil fuel emissions by accelerating the slow natural biomass burial process of fossil fuel formation. The stored woody biomass is not only a carbon sink to mitigate current climate change, but also a valuable resource for the future that can be used as biomass, bioenergy, and carbon supply. A WHS carbon sequestration rate of 10 GtCO₂ y⁻¹ is less than 5% of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP: net photosynthesis)