Participants in an ‘International Conference on Carbon Storage in Wood Products’ held in Brussels recently, unanimously agreed that Harvested Wood Products (HWP) act as carbon stores and that this needs to be recognised in future international agreements on climate change.
The conference, organised in the context pf the ‘Wood in Sustainable Development’ process of CEI-Bois Roadmap 2010, gathered leading scientists on wood products and climate change, forestry and wood industry representatives from across the globe with a focus on Europe.
It attracted more than 100 participants and was chaired by Prof Dr Ir Joris Van Acker of the Laboratory of Wood Technology of Ghent University.
