After trees are harvested, their carbon storage capacities continue through wood products, contributing to US carbon sinks alongside living forests. Strong markets for wood products can encourage reforestation and prolong the duration of carbon storage, but challenges to the viability of these markets and calculating carbon credits, especially in the face of increased wildfire intensity and frequency, remain.

Join Resources for the Future (RFF) on Wednesday, March 26, for a webinar convening researchers and forest sector analysts. Together, these experts will address critiques; examine the role of wood products in carbon accounting and offset markets; identify opportunities for crediting protocols; and clarify the role of wood products in reducing net emissions.

Speakers

• Grant Domke, Research Forester, USDA Forest Service
• Brent Sohngen, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University
• David Wear, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future

Panelists

•   Vaughan Andrews, Senior Program Manager, Sustainability, Weyerhaeuser Company
• Ethan Belair, Senior Forest Carbon Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
• Rita Hite, President and CEO, American Forest Foundation
• Edie Sonne Hall, Principal, Three Trees Consulting
• Ann M. Bartuska, Senior Advisor, Resources for the Future (Moderator)

To learn more and register, visit https://www.rff.org/events/webinars/evaluating-the-role-of-wood-products-as-carbon-offsets/.