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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.
Commenter Organization: Bluesource LLC
Commenter: Ben Parkhurst
2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: No Section Indicated
Comment: Baseline Harvested Wood Products
Proposed Change: It is inappropriate and not conservative to exclude baseline wood products from the carbon accounting. The methodology is based on the premise that a harvest would have happened in the absence of the project, and presumably this would have resulted in harvests that led to carbon being sequestered in wood products in the baseline scenario. This is a key component of every other IFM methodology. Carbon sequestered in wood products should be accounted for on the same time scale as the instance enrollment period. If a landowner is being credited for deferring harvest for one year, they should also be accounting for the carbon stored in harvested wood products in the baseline during that same period.