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TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE BY USING WOOD

Carbon Cycle: Sustainable Forest Management and Wood Products

Growing forests absorb carbon
dioxide and release oxygen

Oxygen released
Carbon absorbed O

Natural regeneration CO 2 2 Carbon storage plateaus
and planting in older forests and can
begin the cycle
slowly be released as
trees decay or burn

Gradual release
CO
2

Harvesting for wood
Wood buildings store carbon products ensures that
and it remains stored over carbon continues to
the lifetime of the building be stored

1 Brock Commons Tallwood House at the University of British Columbia is an 18-storey wood building completed in 2017.
Carbon stored and avoided greenhouse gas emissions: 2,432 metric tons of CO2. Equivalent to 511 cars off the road for a year.
2 Mountain Equipment Co-op Headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia was complete in 2014.
Carbon stored and avoided greenhouse gas emissions: 2,940 metric tons of CO2. Equivalent to 618 cars off the road for a year.

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