The Impact of Forest Industry Operations and Comparison of Greenhouse Carbon Emissions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Forestry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 11273
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest operations; logistics; industrial roundwood; energy wood; greenhouse gas emissions; carbon footprint; energy efficiency; sustainability; digitalization
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Interests: wood procurement; bioeconomy; energy wood harvesting; forest industry logistics; wood supply chains; wood energy production control systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Forest industry is in a crucial role to combat climate change and global warming with reduction targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Growing trees in sustainably managed forests absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, and the carbon is stored in renewable, fiber-based products even through recycling. Wooden products help customers and societies substantially to reduce CO2 emissions by providing low-carbon alternatives to solutions based on fossil fuels and other non-renewable materials. The European Commission has recently presented its strategy for a carbon neutral EU by 2050. The strategy relies on the circular economy, natural carbon sinks, and lifestyle changes and suggests GHG emission cuts from all sectors of the economy.
Globally, forest industry actively aims to further improve the energy efficiency of its operations, and to continue to increase the use of biomass fuels from residuals. In forest industries, CO2 emissions from the operations can divided into 1) direct emissions, including on-site electricity and heat production, 2) indirect emissions related to the electricity and heat purchased externally for use in the operations of forest industries, and 3) indirect emissions along the value chain of forest industries. It is estimated that a main part of the emissions in the carbon footprint of forest industries is generated elsewhere along the value chain. Therefore, it is extremely important that we actively introduce and utilize novel innovations, methods and processes which enhance the operations of the value chain of forest industries and further lower the carbon footprint of the operations by the forest industry in the near future.
This Special Issue is seeking for R&D papers which study and report the GHG emissions in some specific operations – for instance in wood harvesting operations, production of fuels, transportation and logistics of purchased raw materials and fuels, production of purchased materials and services, processing of products by the customers, and transportation and distribution of the products to the customers – or in the whole value chain by forest industry. In addition, we encourage you to submit state-of-the-art papers as well as technical review papers on GHG emissions, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability and life cycle assessment (LCA) in the value chain by forest industry to this Special Issue.
Dr. Kalle Kärhä
Prof. Dr. Teijo Palander
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- carbon dioxide (CO2)
- energy efficiency
- life cycle assessment (LCA)
- environmental sustainability
- forest industry
- wood harvesting
- transportation
- value chain.
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