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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: 285 (Jessica Orrego) #285

Closed ncx-gitbot closed 2 years ago

ncx-gitbot commented 2 years ago

Commenter Organization: Mercuria Energy Trading

Commenter: Jessica Orrego

2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: Harvested wood products

Comment: It is unclear why harvested wood products are excluded from project carbon accounting. The baseline scenario assumes timber harvesting and production of wood products, some of which would store carbon for many years. Excluding this pool from baseline accounting is not conservative, as it lowers the baseline. We recommend that this pool is included in accounting to ensure credibility.

Proposed Change: No Proposed Change

ncx-gitbot commented 2 years 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.