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Article

Carbon Sequestration in Harvested Wood Products in Hungary an Estimation Based on the IPCC 2019 Refinement

by
Éva Király
1,*,
Zoltán Börcsök
2,
Zoltán Kocsis
3,
Gábor Németh
3,
András Polgár
4 and
Attila Borovics
1
1
Forest Research Institute, University of Sopron, Várkerület 30/A, H-9400 Sárvár, Hungary
2
Innovation Center, University of Sopron, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky E. Str. 4, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary
3
Faculty of Wood Engineering and Creative Industries, University of Sopron, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky E. Str. 4, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary
4
Faculty of Forestry, University of Sopron, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky E. Str. 4, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Forests 2022, 13(11), 1809; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111809
Submission received: 11 October 2022 / Revised: 25 October 2022 / Accepted: 27 October 2022 / Published: 30 October 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
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Abstract

As wood products in use store carbon and can contribute to reducing the concentration of atmospheric CO2, the improved and enhanced use of wood products can be a successful measure in climate change mitigation. This study estimates the amount of carbon stored in the Hungarian harvested wood product (HWP) pool and the CO2 emissions and removals of the pool. According to our results, the total carbon stock of the Hungarian HWP pool is continuously increasing. We estimated the total carbon stock of the HWP pool to be 17,306 kt C in the year 2020. Our results show that the HWP pool in Hungary is a carbon sink in most parts of the time series, with some years where it turns to a source of emissions. We carried out a simple projection up to 2070, assuming a constant inflow for the projected years that is equal to the average inflow of the last five historic years. This resulted in a decreasing trend in CO2 removals, with removals already very close to zero in 2070. We concluded that in order to achieve significant future carbon sinks in the HWP pool technological improvements are needed, such as increasing the lifetime of the wood products and expanding the carbon storage capacity of wood products by reusing and recycling wood in a cascade system.
Keywords: HWP; wood products; climate change mitigation; forest; carbon storage; carbon stock; CO2 removals HWP; wood products; climate change mitigation; forest; carbon storage; carbon stock; CO2 removals

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Király, É.; Börcsök, Z.; Kocsis, Z.; Németh, G.; Polgár, A.; Borovics, A. Carbon Sequestration in Harvested Wood Products in Hungary an Estimation Based on the IPCC 2019 Refinement. Forests 2022, 13, 1809. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111809

AMA Style

Király É, Börcsök Z, Kocsis Z, Németh G, Polgár A, Borovics A. Carbon Sequestration in Harvested Wood Products in Hungary an Estimation Based on the IPCC 2019 Refinement. Forests. 2022; 13(11):1809. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111809

Chicago/Turabian Style

Király, Éva, Zoltán Börcsök, Zoltán Kocsis, Gábor Németh, András Polgár, and Attila Borovics. 2022. "Carbon Sequestration in Harvested Wood Products in Hungary an Estimation Based on the IPCC 2019 Refinement" Forests 13, no. 11: 1809. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111809

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Király, É., Börcsök, Z., Kocsis, Z., Németh, G., Polgár, A., & Borovics, A. (2022). Carbon Sequestration in Harvested Wood Products in Hungary an Estimation Based on the IPCC 2019 Refinement. Forests, 13(11), 1809. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111809

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