Wood



=How does wood help to mitigate climate change? =

Climate change and forests are closely linked. First, the changes occurring in the global climate are affecting forests because the annual average temperatures are higher, the change in rainfall patterns and the presence of increasingly frequent extreme weather events. At the same time, forests and the wood they produce trap and store carbon dioxide, which contribute significantly to mitigating climate change.In the reverse of the case that the destruction, overexploitation or forest fire can produce carbon dioxide, greenhouse gas responsible.

It is certainly necessary to stop deforestation and extend the forest area but also need to replace fossil fuels with biofuels made from wood from forests managed in a responsible way to reduce carbon emissions. We must also use wood to produce more durable able to keep carbon out of the atmosphere for longer periods of time.Proper management can help combat climate change through afforestation (new plantings) and reforestation (replanting of deforested areas), and avoid cutting down forests.In the tropics in particular, where vegetation grows rapidly and therefore removes carbon from the atmosphere more quickly, planting trees can remove large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere in a relatively short time. In this case, forests can store up to 15 tons of carbon per hectare per year in their biomass and wood.