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1 year ago NCX response: 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.
Commenter Organization: EP Carbon
Commenter: Kyle Holland
2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: No Section Indicated
Comment: The methodology over credits baseline emissions by ignoring carbon stored in slash wood not yet decayed. The methodology fails to account for the time decay of slash of deadwood in harvesting, therefore overstating baseline emissions. This is observed in the form of equation 1 that ΞπΆπ2ππ π = βππΆπ‘0 is simply the amount of carbon contained in above ground biomass removed in the baseline scenario and inherently assumes that all carbon removed is immediately emitted into the atmosphere. In reality, carbon not stored in baseline wood products would not be immediately emitted into the atmosphere and therefore a ten-year linear decay model should be applied per section 3.6.1 of the VCS Methodology Requirements. Not accounting for decay in slash from harvesting overstates baseline emissions.
Proposed Change: No Proposed Change