The UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences own Associate Professor and Associate Director of CINTRAFOR Indroneil Ganguly will present this week’s SEFS Seminar. He will be discussing how building with sustainably harvested forests is a carbon-neutral alternative to typical building development.

This week’s seminar will be held both online and in-person.

Here are the details:

Wednesday, Oct. 13
3:30-4:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Via Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92707468214 and in-person in the Forest Club Room (Anderson 207)

Speaker: Indroneil Ganguly, Associate Professor at SEFS and Associate Director of CINTRAFOR

Title: “Building with wood from sustainably harvested forests, an effective carbon-negative solution”

Abstract: Both “climate positive” and “carbon negative” mean the same: removing CO2 from the atmosphere to mitigate climate change. When we discuss the role of forests in mitigating climate change, we often think about the role of standing trees in the forests. However, similar to standing trees in the forests, wood products play an essential role in enhancing the global sequestered carbon pool. Wood products help retain the atmospheric carbon in a sequestered form for the duration of the functional life of the wood products, which is known as biogenic carbon storage benefit. In some end-use applications, wood products also help displace fossil-energy-intensive materials like steel and concrete, which is known as substitution benefit. When using Global Warming Potential – GWP (CO₂ equivalents) for emissions occurring in the distant future, it is methodologically consistent with using a dynamic framework. Similarly, when biogenic carbon is stored in wood products over a certain period, estimating the GWP mitigating potential of the stored carbon is consistent with the delayed emissions provision described in IPCC’s special report on carbon dioxide capture and storage. In my talk, I will explain how we have used temporal radiative forcing analysis, within the context of delayed emissions weighting, along with the functional life of different wood products. I will present the net estimates of the impacts of wood products on global warming, including carbon storage and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (production and extraction related), using this dynamic approach. I will also discuss how the model can be applied to a landscape level (WA State) and individual systems-level (e.g., mass timber buildings). 

While some of the details are still developing for future seminars, you can view the full schedule here: https://sefs.uw.edu/news-and-events/events/sefs-seminars/.

Full Meeting Information:

When: Oct 13, 2021 03:30 PM

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