Implementation Guidance for Wood Harvesting and Storage
Ning Zeng, Daniel Sanchez, Erica Belmont, Henry Hausmann

TL;DR
This paper provides comprehensive implementation guidance for wood harvesting and storage projects aimed at carbon sequestration, detailing technical, environmental, and verification processes to ensure durable carbon storage in wood vaults.
Contribution
It introduces standardized requirements and procedures for implementing and verifying wood-based carbon sequestration projects, including design, monitoring, and legal considerations.
Findings
Defines technical specifications for durable wood vaults.
Outlines monitoring and verification methods for carbon storage.
Provides legal and environmental assessment guidelines.
Abstract
This implementation guidance focuses on carbon removal and sequestration via wood harvesting and storage (WHS), a process where woody biomass, with the embedded carbon, is stored for long timescales in shallow geologic storage. The engineering structure designed to ensure such durable storage by preventing biomass decomposition is called a Wood Vault. This guidance contains the requirements for a basic Wood Vault project, and is intended to aid project developers, verifiers, and registries in this space. It describes a set of requirements that govern the end-to-end process of carbon removal and sequestration. This includes carbon accounting, wood sourcing via wood residual (WR) utilization, Wood Vault construction and maintenance, as well as processes for monitoring, verification, and credit issuance. Carbon accounting requirements include baseline, or counterfactual specification,…
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TopicsForest Biomass Utilization and Management
