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Emission Management Strategies for Harvested Wood Products in Australia

This document outlines the complexities of emission management for harvested wood products (HWP) within Australia’s national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory. Key principles include avoiding double counting, using straightforward methodologies, and adhering to UNFCCC requirements. The report discusses challenges like HWP classification, trade complexities, and emission monitoring from rising wood stock levels. It emphasizes the importance of ongoing research, modeling adjustments, and potential allocation approaches to promote equity among stakeholders while supporting sustainable forestry and bioenergy initiatives.

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Emission Management Strategies for Harvested Wood Products in Australia

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  1. Harvested Wood Products Peter BrisbaneAssistant ManagerInternational and Strategies BranchAustralian Greenhouse Office

  2. Context • There are many dimensions to handling emissions from harvested wood products • National inventory of emissions from sources and removals by sinks • Allocation approaches (not for KP 2008-2012) • Domestic policy

  3. National GHG inventory 1 • Some key principles have developed around inventory reporting • Consistent with effects on atmosphere • No double counting across inventory sectors • Should use simple methods with potential for tiers

  4. National GHG inventory 2 • Fundamental requirements for UNFCCC inventories are defined in the Convention • FCCC Article 4.1(a) requires Parties to report a “National inventory of anthropogenic emissions from sources and removals by sinks” • Emission, sink and source are defined in FCCC Article 1 • Inventory reporting is different from allocation under a policy framework that puts a price on carbon

  5. National GHG inventory 3 • HWP reporting offers some new challenges • Classification of HWP • Complexity of trade in primary, intermediate and end-use products • Recycling

  6. Australia’s Current NGGI Reporting • Reported emissions from increasing stock of wood products • Growing HWP stocks established by modelling of forest production and consumption statistics maintained since 1944 and published Quarterly • Imports and exports also monitored • Approach uses simple decomposition and does not acknowledge landfill and recycling effects

  7. Implication of NGGI approaches .Pool developed since 1970 – this sets the base for production approaches

  8. Australia’s Technical Progress • Revised modelling to include additional pools and emissions: • Landfill • Recycling • Bioenergy • Decomposition variable according to age in service life, and separation of service life and disposal pools • Incorporation of Monte Carlo capability to identify model sensitivities

  9. Ongoing Research • Guided by sensitivity analysis: • Landfill excavation • Rates of recycling • Service life retentions/losses • Forms of gases from landfill • Processing wastage • Use of bioenergy

  10. Issues for future discussion • Allocation approaches…Dakar approaches, simple decay, others? • Equity between stakeholders • Bioenergy • Sustainable forestry • Annex I – non-Annex I issues

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