Wood at Work 2020 Panel + Discussion (Part 1)

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Panel: The Carbon Credentials of Wood in Construction

This panel presented a deep-dive into the "net carbon benefits" of wood for long-life construction (mass timber etc.) and was led by five of the world’s top minds on this topic: Chad Oliver, Galina Churkina, Tim Searchinger, William Keeton, and Peter Pinchot. The panelists presented different models for understanding the carbon profile of wood, including a variety of forest impact models and the concerns around increasing wood demand on the world's forests.

The goal of this session was to co-create a more robust carbon profile of wood before it is incorporated into a building (i.e. we will focus less on the "displacement carbon value" of wood, and more on how wood "shows-up" to the building site: Is it net zero? Carbon negative? Carbon positive? And on what basis can we make these claims?