Phenomenal coverage all week, guys. Special shout out to @KVanValkenburg... such great writing that adds more depth and creativity to the @NoLayingUp team. Love it.
Forest & climate scientists: "Climate-smart #forest management needed to bolster European forests’ resilience and capacity to produce wood and grow carbon simultaneously.
The use of wood for #bioenergy is a co-product of harvests and processing of wood for products."
#BioEconomy
@dannadogwood@DogwoodAlliance Yet across the EU, between 1990 and 2015, the total forested and wooded area grew by 90,000 sq km — an area roughly the size of Portugal. Almost every country has seen its forests grow over the period.
https://t.co/0USAQwH4ap
@jcatanoso@sundownslim@andyheald@mongabay This is false. Only 13% of pellet feedstock comes from hardwood. This material is still pulpwood; the lowest-value product in the value chain.
Source: https://t.co/U2GuRBBK8I
@waiterich @CBSNews The Enviva wood lot in the @CBS report was not filled with whole trees, rather tree tops.
Trees aren't harvested for their tops, but generating energy with them instead of fossil fuels surely reduces CO2, and is a great use of this low-value material.
@waiterich @CBSNews Yet the coordinating lead author of the LULUCF chapter for #AR6 WGIII says, "The fact that the use of woody biomass under the right conditions leads to less net CO2 emissions than combustion of coal or gas is virtually undisputed within science and the reports of the IPCC.” 👇