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Documents, Data, and Code. The NCX Methodology For Improved Forest Management (IFM) Through Short-Term Harvest Deferral.
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Public Comment: 102 (Etienne Green) #102

Closed ncx-gitbot closed 1 year ago

ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

Commenter Organization: Forest Carbon Alliance Inc.

Commenter: Etienne Green

2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: 6 - Baseline Scenario 7 - Additionality

Comment: The use of the phrase “carbon at risk of removal due to harvesting” throughout this section is awkward and somewhat misleading. Carbon stored in live above ground biomass is transferred into dead organic pools and harvested wood products pools following a harvest event. The notion that carbon is removed is overly simplistic.

Proposed Change: Address the comment by referring the to harvest causing transfers into HWP and dead biomass throught each section.

ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

NCX response: We appreciate the detailed comments raised about the absence of HWP accounting in the initial draft of our methodology. The carbon stored in trees is released into the atmosphere when a tree dies, some of it almost instantaneously and sometimes over years to decades. We believe it is important to account for all reasonable pools of emissions related to a harvest, and our revised methodology takes the storage of carbon in, and subsequent release of carbon from, harvest wood products into account.