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Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
2.2.10 Make the most of forest products
Many forest products, particularly wood products, last a long time.
Until they are burned or decayed, they continue to store carbon and
prevent GHG emissions. Forest managers can contribute to climate
change mitigation by ensuring that, when trees are harvested, as much
of the wood and other materials as possible is used. They can reduce
GHG emissions further by ensuring that the waste products from timber
processing are not burned, but recycled in other processes such as
paper, board or bio-energy.
2.2.11 Improve efficiency in the use of fuelwood
As in forest fires, the burning of fuelwood releases stored carbon straight
back to the atmosphere. Forest managers can therefore contribute to
climate change mitigation by improving the efficiency of fuelwood use.
Open fires, as used by local communities in many developing countries,
are quite inefficient and result in large amounts of waste, contributing
to forest degradation and sometimes to deforestation, air pollution and
soil erosion. Fuel-efficient cooking stoves reduce the pressure placed on
local forests by reducing the amount of wood consumed by up to 60
percent. They are designed to burn wood much more efficiently than
an open fire, and they can even be fueled by compressed agricultural
residues (e.g. nut shells, straw) or animal dung.
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